I have just been having a drink in a hotel bar just outside Lancaster, only five miles from Morecambe. There were two journalists in the bar, writing their stories for tomorrow's papers - one of them for The Times. One of the journalists couldn't just send his story 'down the line' due to problems with his laptop and so had to read it down the phone to a colleague and, consequently, could be heard in the bar. One of his quotes referred to a chinese lady, who is one of the immigrants who was not out on the sands that night, but who does the same work. They have been told that the cockling work will continue. They are living 40 to a house and pay no rent. She went on to say that if they do not fish (cockle) they will have nowhere to live. She said she dreads hearing the sound of the Boss' minibus pulling up outside the house, as it will mean they have to go out to 'fish'.

Presumably this could all happen again then...