BBC Newsreel featured captured cockle-collectors collecting, carrying, cleaning and cooking cockles at Leigh-on-Sea, Essex. Originally broadcast 21 June 1948 1948: Cockle collecting at Leigh-on-Sea.

An hour into our first road trip to hunt down traditional recipes on the western coast of Galicia, we strike gastronomic gold in the form of Galician cockles, locally known as berberechos. Upon ...

Fed-up residents say more should be done to stop illegal cockle-pickers stripping their beaches. Each year teams of people are spotted along the shore of the Isle of Sheppey, filling buckets with ...

An environmental watchdog has welcomed moves to protect the food source of important bird populations on the Firth of Forth. The Scottish Executive has granted a Special Nature Conservation Order ...