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MORE than 430,000 people watched the BBC's live stream of this year's Up Helly Aa procession. It was the first time the broadcaster streamed the procession on its website, making the festival accessible for those watching across the world. The stream proved most popular with...
UK & Irish Fisheries Our new Fisheries Hub shines a light on the 15 fisheries across the UK and ROI working tirelessly to provide MSC certified seafood to retailers and restaurants at home and overseas. From Shetland’s crabs to Ireland’s mussels, and from the Dee’s cockles to Cornwall’s sardines, fisheries from across the UK and Ireland are committed to ensuring that fish stocks are managed sustainably with minimal impacts on the wider marine environment. Their efforts are helping to safeguard seafood supplies for this and future generations. Read on to learn more about each fishery...
“Poyekhali!” Dressed in an oversized orange spacesuit and equally large white helmet, the initials CCCP stamped in red across the front, an unknown Russian air force pilot prepared to make history. It was the morning of 12 April 12, 1961, and moments earlier Yuri Gagarin had said his farewells to the gathered dignitaries and made the brief bus journey across the tarmac. Ahead of him, rising from the flat landscape of the Kazakhstan steppes, was a towering, shining rocket. Gagarin had only learned that he had been selected to become the first human being to orbit the earth three ...