Every year, The Sunday Times conducts some research into the most successful mid-market businesses in the country and compiles an in-depth list of the top 250 in current form. This ranking table is based on the activity of each company’s sales and profit figures, where research company FastTrack look for exceptional growth in these two areas. The exciting news for yacht manufacturing is t...

There was plenty of excitement down on the River Thames on Tuesday afternoon, as a magnificent whale was spotted swimming its way up the inland waters towards London. The initial sighting was made near Gravesend in Kent, where passers-by identified a strange moving object as a Beluga Whale. After two days of close monitoring for the whale's safety, it's been seen slowly making the way b...

Sharks are not all that uncommon in Irish waters, in fact certain species are quite abundant on the far west coast of the British Isles. That doesn’t mean there’s that much of a threat though - plenty of shark species are pretty harmless and the chance of an attack is extremely rare in this corner of the world. They can happen however, they’re a wild and unpredictable animal t...

History has seen many great battles being fought at sea over the years, but the scallop war in the English Channel is something relatively new. Many hotspots for white fish are found off the Normandy coast of France and British fishermen have been allowed to share these waters, albeit with disgust from French businesses. So much so that some of the Mariners have started taking matters into thei...

A 29-year-old English man who was sent flying into the air from a banana boat has now been missing for four days and is presumed dead. Diving teams are searching for any enlightening evidence and are yet to find anything substantial from the holiday accident that occurred at the start of the week.   The missing man has been named as Richard Chapelow - a capable young male who had b...

Many research expeditions set out each year attempting to analyse the behaviour of sharks - many just hoping they’ll get a glimpse of one of the feared beasts. But one crew got a little bit more than they’d been expecting when a huge Great White leapt out of the water baring huge teeth, just centimetres from the feet a team member. You can see the footage below.   The s...