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A PASSING RIB came to the aid of a yacht that had run aground at the weekend by passing it a line and holding it off rocks.

The All weather lifeboat was called out to a broken down yacht A YACHT which had undergone a long renovation suffered engine failure on its first voyage and had to be rescued by Falmouth lifeboat. The yacht with two people on board had been on passage from Exmouth to its new home in the Helford on Sunday when it suffered engine failure due to a fuel problem which had proved impossible to rectify in the prevailing moderate swell. Having drifted closer to the shore in Gerrans Bay the skipper was concerned about sailing clear of the lee shore so dropped the yacht's anchor and contacted the...

IN the exhortative words of the late Freddie Mercury, "Get on your bikes and ride". Eco-friendly, perma-cycling Shakespearean travelling theatre company The HandleBards will be heading to York Theatre Royal on May 25 and 26. Directed by Nel Crouch, company founders Paul Moss and Tom Dixon and partner in chaotic irreverence Lucy Green have created an "unhinged and bonkers" version of Romeo & Juliet, the pulp fiction, early Sixties' girl-group teenage tragedy of the Shakespeare canon. "Forget the tears and tragedy, and get ready for some live and wired Shakespeare as you've never seen ...

ENTERTAINMENT venues in York are “giddy” as they prepare to reopen next week - in line with the Government’s Covid road map.