Scilly Isles

Last week, Truro Crown Court heard that last September four men on a boat called the Lily Lola sailed to an area near the Scilly Isles on instructions from a gang in South America.

That process had already started with the closure of its Scilly Isles ferry service before sailing had even begun.

Benjamin Postlethwaite, the lighthouse keeper of Puffin Island — part of the Scilly Isles in Cornwall, England — saves 30 people whose schooner, the Pelican, has broken apart and is sinking after being driven onto the rocks by rough seas.

Ian Rivers, 55, set off from New York on 31 May using only a sextant and the stars to navigate to the Scilly Isles.

Ian Rivers, from Hereford, said an unsupported solo row between New York and the Scilly Isles had never been achieved and was a "true adventure".