A British couple have been left with a £200,000 bill after merchant sailors accidentally set fire to their classic 100-year-old wooden sailing boat by letting off emergency flares as part of ...

Boat users in the Isles of Scilly are being asked to hand in their out-of-date marine flares. Devon and Cornwall Police said it had worked with partners to arrange a flare amnesty. People are ...

One crew member eventually lights a red flare and throws it in the water, prompting the whales to swim away. Despite a partially broken rudder, the boat managed to continue on its journey and ...