On the same day that Glastonbury welcomed back Margate's adopted sons, The Libertines, Margate itself put on it's very own Leisure Festival as it... Oasis fans hoping to get tickets for the band's ...

Set in the late '80s, Diving for Pearls remains startlingly relevant - the political decisions of that time planted the seeds of divide we continue to witness between those with opportunity, and those ...

He was translating a lecture from Arabic to English on the history of pearl diving. The actual lecturer was the Arabic-speaking man of the hour, Juma Khalifa bin Thalith, author of nine books on ...

The Ama are female freedivers who have gathered pearls, lobsters and shellfish in ... and the growing difficulty of making a living from diving, numbers are now down to around 1,200.