Joined by two young carefree boys, the captivating images show cockle pickers sifting through the sand with their cockle sieve or bare hands, and a pair of donkeys being cajoled into carrying ...

A beauty spot beach is 'decimated' by illegal cockle-picking with up to 250 people grabbing the seaside delicacy from the shore. Gangs of pickers appeared 'en masse' with containers and salt ...

Illegal cockle picking and over-harvesting in 2014 are some of the factors being blamed for the move. Currently, 53 licences for commercial cockle picking on the estuary are issued every year.

But as he was taken back to shore, Li could see the naked bodies of the 23 cockle pickers who had died in the water around him - their clothes torn off them by the water - and he realised he was ...

Seventeen cockle pickers had to be rescued from the sea this morning as hundreds of amateur fishermen continue risking their lives to harvest a bumper crop. It is the 16th accident at Lancashire's ...

The local council has warned that eating shellfish from the River Adur could make people very ill Illegal cockle picking has been taking place on a large scale at a protected site in West Sussex ...

When he finally arrived in the UK in 2004, he was given filthy accommodation, sleeping on a concrete floor with 25 other men and put to work as a cockle picker in Lancashire. Just a week after he ...

BRITAIN: The bodies of some of the 23 Chinese cockle-pickers drowned at Morecambe Bay last February finally returned to their… BRITAIN: The bodies of some of the 23 Chinese cockle-pickers ...

"Police told one family to put everything back but the cockle-pickers simply move to another beach. "I used to take my son cockling when he was young but we only had a bucket and we cleaned them ...

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 ...

Illegal cockle picking and over-harvesting in 2014 are some of the factors being blamed for the move. Currently, 53 licences for commercial cockle picking on the estuary are issued every year.

The local council has warned that eating shellfish from the River Adur could make people very ill Illegal cockle picking has been taking place on a large scale at a protected site in West Sussex ...