A British company aims to produce up to 10,000 tonnes of mussels a year at their Lyme Bay farm. Photograph: Paul Kay/Natural England/PA Plans for the largest offshore mussel farm in Europe, to be set up in Lyme Bay, were announced today. The company behind the project hopes it will produce up to 10,000 tonnes [...]

The sudden turnaround at Crocs Inc after management changes shows that the world never stopped loving its ugly – but comfy – plastic shoes. Photograph: Alex Segre/Rex Features Crocs were dismissed as a fashion fad, a flash in the pan and as the ugliest shoes ever invented. But the brightly coloured plastic footwear once sported [...]

I’m about to reluctantly upgrade from my existing extremely old but dearly loved radio. I’m intending to spend as much as I can afford on a top range, high specification standalone DAB radio. You have in the past published many articles on the subject on the UK DAB radio format and how you consider this [...]

Justin King, the chief executive of Sainsbury’s, has been appointed to David Cameron’s special advisory committee. Photograph Sarah Lee for the Guardian David Cameron has assembled an advisory committee of about a dozen business leaders, including Justin King, the chief executive of Sainsbury’s; the ad man Sir Martin Sorrell and Sir Michael Rake, chairman of [...]

Sir Cyril Smith at the Liberal party conference at Blackpool in 1975. He knew that criticising his own party guaranteed media coverage Photograph: Don McPhee Sir Cyril Smith, who has died aged 82, was the Liberal and then the Liberal Democrat MP for Rochdale from 1972 to 1992, and a much more complex individual than [...]