The sandy mounds are worm casts, effectively the poo, of a marine worm called a lugworm. Common on sandy and muddy-sandy shores around the coast of Britain, they live in burrows under the wet sand. A ...

The sand passes through them and appears on the surface in the familiar shape of a 'cast'. The lugworm has a very limited digestive system that can extract food and nutrients, but doesn't do a lot ...

The sea is quiet. Lugworm collectors are silhouetted against its breakers which are too lazy to break properly – they surge gently in and then they retreat. A little boat eases to the shore.

Filmmaker Mahera Omar’s short documentary “Sometimes Even the Shore Drowns – inspired by Rachel Carson’s 1955 book “The Edge of the Sea” – garnered critical acclaim at a screening in ...

If you have any interest in fishing, the works of great writers from Hemingway to Ted Hughes amount to a glowing review on ...

Of course, it was only when I did my apprenticeship as a lugworm digger and came under the tutelage of marsh men like Joe, Billy, Bernie, Caw Caw, Sykes and the rest that I really got to know this ...

I think it is Ian’s view that just because someone has a PhD in the reproductive system of a lugworm, that does not necessarily outweigh the experience of a gamekeeper, farmer, gardener or ...

Remember I did have a year lugworm digging round those parts back in my university days but never were the muds carpeted with them like this. It was a stormy evening, all scudding seas and snow ...