Will France give way in Brexit fishing row? Hints of a compromise on EU access to British waters as trade deal deadline looms French minister for European affairs hints at climbdown on access to UK waters Clement Beaune warned French fishermen they could not expect same rights His comments represent a change from Mr Macron’s hardline … Read more
Michel Barnier urges French to back down in Brexit battle over fishing rights… but they REFUSE to budge French officials refused to back down over access to UK fishing waters yesterday European affairs minister said: ‘Our fishermen will not be a bargaining chip’ Brussels negotiator Michel Barnier said it was not ‘feasible’ for European trawlers … Read more
Michel Barnier urges French to back down in Brexit battle over fishing rights… but they REFUSE to budge French officials refused to back down over access to UK fishing waters yesterday European affairs minister said: ‘Our fishermen will not be a bargaining chip’ Brussels negotiator Michel Barnier said it was not ‘feasible’ for European trawlers … Read more
Malaysian sniffer dogs tracked missing British girl Nora Quoirin’s scent to an abandoned fishing hut – but found no scent at the villa window she is thought to have climbed through, her inquest heard. Nora vanished from the Dusun rainforest resort, around 45 miles from Kuala Lumpur, where she had been staying with her parents … Read more
Malaysian sniffer dogs tracked missing British girl Nora Quoirin’s scent to an abandoned fishing hut – but found no scent at the villa window she is thought to have climbed through, her inquest heard. Nora vanished from the Dusun rainforest resort, around 45 miles from Kuala Lumpur, where she had been staying with her parents … Read more
Even after all this time, they still don’t understand us. The European Union clearly expects Britain, once again, to surrender its fishing grounds and betray its coastal communities for the sake of a wider, post-Brexit free trade agreement with Brussels. Why else would the EU’s lead negotiator, Michel Barnier, display such intransigence as a no-deal … Read more
Even after all this time, they still don’t understand us. The European Union clearly expects Britain, once again, to surrender its fishing grounds and betray its coastal communities for the sake of a wider, post-Brexit free trade agreement with Brussels. Why else would the EU’s lead negotiator, Michel Barnier, display such intransigence as a no-deal … Read more
Mortimer And Whitehouse: Gone Fishing Rating: National Trust Unlocked Rating: Lime marmalade — that is the correct answer. Bob Mortimer and Paul Whitehouse were having a fervent debate about the world’s best jam, one of them waders-deep in a Scottish salmon river and the other lying on the bank fiddling with his phone. Paul argued … Read more
Mortimer And Whitehouse: Gone Fishing Rating: National Trust Unlocked Rating: Lime marmalade — that is the correct answer. Bob Mortimer and Paul Whitehouse were having a fervent debate about the world’s best jam, one of them waders-deep in a Scottish salmon river and the other lying on the bank fiddling with his phone. Paul argued … Read more
Stretching for miles across the horizon, a vast armada of Chinese fishing boats trawl the pristine waters close to the Galapagos Islands. Ostensibly fishing squid, the real target for the 265-strong fleet are sharks to serve the appetite for expensive fin soup, costing up to £350 a bowl, sold in markets across China and Hong Kong. … Read more