Going under
20 June 2007
Jonathan Watts hears the stories of eight victims' families plunged into debt and despair
Full story at www.guardian.co.uk

On the cheap
16 December 2006
The flowers we buy as gifts this year may be an uneasy bargain.
Full story at www.guardian.co.uk

Victim made last-gasp plea
21 October 2005
One of the Chinese cockle pickers who perished in the Morecambe Bay tragedy made desperate pleas for help on his mobile phone as the tides rose, engulfing his body, the court heard.
Full story at www.thewestmorlandgazette.co.uk

Shellfish bags set on fire
21 October 2005
A survivor of the Morecambe Bay tragedy told a jury how English people had set on fire bags of shellfish picked by the Chinese workers.
Full story at www.thewestmorlandgazette.co.uk

Cockle pickers were swimming the wrong direction
14 October 2005
A survivor, Li Hua, told the court that he lost his friends as they swam in another direction.
Full story at www.thewestmorlandgazette.co.uk

It was madness to open cockle beds
12 October 2005
A man with detailed knowledge of the sands and tides on Morecambe Bay yesterday described the decision to open the Bay's cockle beds to people with no experience of the sands as "foolhardy" and "madness."
Full story at www.thelancasterandmorecambecitizen.co.uk

Five in court over bay cockling disaster
22 September 2005
A Chinese gangmaster and four others have gone on trial charged in connection with the Morecambe Bay cockle disaster.
Full story at www.thewestmorlandgazette.co.uk

Desperate last moments of cockle pickers
21 September 2005
The 21 Chinese cocklers who drowned when they were caught by the incoming tide at Morecambe bay were unable to speak sufficient English to summon help, with no obvious route back to shore, Preston crown court heard yesterday.
Full story at www.guardian.co.uk

Cockler deaths jury shown film of survivor's rescue
20 September 2005
Li Hua, the only person to be rescued from Morecambe Bay on the night when 23 cockle pickers drowned had been on his first night in the job, a jury heard today.
Full story at www.guardian.co.uk

Morecambe Bay one year on
5 February 2005
A year ago 23 Chinese people lost their lives in Morecambe Bay. This weekend, as their deaths are remembered in special services, the cockling continues on the dangerous tidal banks.
Full story at news.bbc.co.uk

Damning reports on migrants delayed as government fears poll backlash
3 February 2005
The New Labour government doesn't want its voters to see a new report on Britain's migrant workers before the election.
Full story at politics.guardian.co.uk

It could happen again tomorrow
2 February 2005
Steps taken to make Morecambe Bay a safer place to work are less than adequate and will not stop another disaster happening tomorrow.
Full story at www.thewestmorlandgazette.co.uk

Disaster dead return home
11 November 2004
The bodies of the 21 Chinese people who drowned in Morecambe Bay in February have been flown home.
Full story at www.thewestmorlandgazette.co.uk

Are Chinese Lives Cheaper?
8 July 2004
This was one of the questions asked at a meeting to discuss the Morecambe Bay tragedy.
Full story at www.irr.org.uk

From Dover to Morecambe Bay: tragedy and government immigration policy
7 July 2004
Comment from IRR (Institute of Race Relations), an independent race and refugee news network
Full story at www.irr.org.uk

Morecambe survivor wants change
7 July 2004
A survivor of the Morecambe Bay tragedy is calling for a change in immigration rules to prevent the deaths of more foreign workers.
Full story at www.bbc.co.uk

Fear drives Chinese back to cockle beds
3 May 2004
Why have the Chinese workers returned to the cockle beds a few months after the tragedy?
Full story at politics.guardian.co.uk

Inside the grim world of the gangmasters
27 March, 2004
An undercover story documenting the life and work of Chinese workers in the informal economy in Britain
Full Story at www.guardian.co.uk

Tories disown cockler joke MP
26 February 2004
Tory MP Ann Winterton sacked from the party by Tory leader, Michael Howard, over tasteless joke about the Chinese cockle-picker tragedy.
Full story at news.bbc.co.uk

Heard the one about the idiot Tory who can't stop telling her racist jokes? MP's sick jibe stuns diners
26 February 2004
Blundering Ann Winterton was looking a tired, sick joke last night after wading in to yet another racist jibe.
Full story at www.mirror.co.uk

Life and death of a cockle picker
20 February 2004
The story of Yu Hui.
Full story at www.guardian.co.uk

Dead in the Sand: Racism, Greed and Tragedy in the UK
15 February 2004
Tim Pringle from Hong Kong, offers his view on the Morecambe deaths.
Full story at www.dimsum.co.uk

Fearful isolation, little hope, and even less cash
14 February 2004
The life of the cockle pickers following the tragedy
Full story at www.guardian.co.uk

Racism blamed for cockle deaths
14 February 2004
One of the men arrested in connection with the deaths of the Chinese cocklers in Morecambe Bay said yesterday that British racism and bureaucratic failings had caused the disaster.
Full story at news.independent.co.uk

Interview with Lin Liang Ren
Injurywatch.co.uk

The Hidden Assembly Line
Chinatown Magazine

An accident waiting to happen
12 February 2004
The Year of Monkey has got off to a bad start. Jabez Lam explains.
Full story at www.dimsum.co.uk

UK Chinese say Morecambe Bay deaths caused by government immigration policy
10 February 2004
Min Quan, a Chinese civil rights group and a branch of The Monitoring Group, says that the British immigration policy is to blame for the tragedy

"I'm illegal, so what can I do?"
9 February 2004
Ms Li, from Tienjin, China, tells her story
Full story at www.guardian.co.uk

Victims of the sands and the Snakeheads
7 February 2004
Reporting the circumstances of the tragedy
Full story at www.guardian.co.uk

The underbelly of globalisation
7 February 2004
The Chinese workers who died were victims of cowboy capitalism
Full story at www.guarddian.co.uk

Who's protecting the migrant workers?
February 2004
Comment from Hazards Magazine
Full story at www.hazards.org