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There will be a candle-lit vigil to remember them at the cockle pickers' memorial on Morecambe promenade, near the RNLI lifeboat station. I hope you will be able to attend." The commemoration on ...
Inside Out talks to Li Hua, the only cockle picker to be rescued alive from the Morecambe Bay cockling ... He said: "If there's any fitting memorial to the poor people that died it would be ...
Twenty years ago, on a dark February night, Chinese cockle picker Guo Binglong frantically ... who were harvesting cockles out on the sands of Morecambe Bay on 5 February 2004.
A group of cockle-pickers has been rescued ... came only an hour after a memorial ceremony to remember the 19 Chinese cocklers who lost their lives in Morecambe last Thursday.
The Morecambe Bay tragedy is being remembered 20 years on, with Lancashire Police admitting it is still struggling to prosecute trafficking gangs. On February 5, 2004, 23 Chinese cockle pickers ...
22 of the 23 victims of the Morecambe Bay cockling disaster - The final victim's picture was never released. It has been 20 years since 23 Chinese cockle pickers drowned when they were cut off by ...
It commemorates the 23 Chinese cockle pickers who died after being caught ... Cllr Roger Dennison, after Morecambe's War Memorial was vandalised with Nazi graffiti. The protest included a period ...
BRITAIN: Another group of up to 40 cockle-pickers evaded disaster yesterday ... an hour after Buddhist monks led a memorial and prayer service on Morecambe seafront for those who drowned last ...
The Morecambe Bay victims were aged between 18 and 45 A decade ago 23 Chinese cockle pickers drowned when they ... He said: "If there's any fitting memorial to the poor people that died it would ...