Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The improvised shrine on Morecambe Promenade (PA) The Morecambe Bay tragedy is being remembered 20 years on, with Lancashire ...

A "poignant" new exhibition is to remember victims of the Morecambe Bay cockling disaster 20 years ago. More than 30 Chinese nationals were harvesting the shellfish from the sands of the bay in ...

Unite said the Gangmasters Licensing Authority, set up in the wake of the disaster 20 years ago today, in which 21 people drowned, needs to be reformed Cocklers back at work on the sands of Morecambe ...

A GANGMASTER and four other people have gone on trial charged in connection with the Morecambe Bay cockle disaster when 21 people lost their lives. Lin Liang Ren, 29, from Liverpool is charged with 21 ...

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Twenty-three Chinese cockle pickers drown in Lancashire's Morecambe Bay in February 2004. They became trapped by rising tides and were swept out to sea. The deaths exposed an underground world of ...

More than 100 people gathered on the shores of Morecambe Bay on Friday to mark a year since the cockling disaster, in which 23 Chinese died. The cockle pickers, who had come to the UK in search of ...

New laws aimed at protecting cocklers in the wake of the Morecambe Bay cockling disaster will be discussed at a meeting in Lancaster on Thursday. Gangmaster Lin Liang Ren was sentenced to 14 years ...

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 ...