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BBC News
07-05-2025
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Aylesbury walker, 82, completes 4,500 mile RNLI station trek
Walker, 82, completes 4,500-mile RNLI station trek 12 minutes ago Share Save Martin Heath & Annabel Amos BBC News, Buckinghamshire Share Save Pip Murrison/BBC Derek Adams visited his last lifeboat in Aith on the West Shetland mainland An 82-year-old man has completed an epic 4,500 mile (7,242km) walk along Britain's coastline, stopping at every lifeboat station on the way. Derek Adams, originally from Northampton but now living in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, started his expedition in June, 2022. He visited his 238th lifeboat station on Tuesday. He has so far raised more than £10,000 for the lifeboat charity, the RNLI, Cancer Research UK and the British Heart Foundation. Lewis Lifeboat He met up with the lifeboat crew in Lerwick, Shetland, on the last day of his walk Mr Adams wanted to complete his extraordinary odyssey before he was 85, and he has achieved it at just 82, walking for a month each year. He said: "I have now visited every lifeboat station in England, Scotland and Wales on the mainland coastline so that's fantastic - 4,200 miles and smiling all the way." Asked if he felt as fit as a fiddle, he said: "I do actually, perhaps a very old one - a Stradivarius - my legs are superb." Derek Adams Mr Adams enjoyed meeting all kinds of people during his trek When he was younger, he often completed charity walks and other long journeys by sleeping out overnight. He now allows himself the luxury of a warm and dry hotel room and has been offered free accommodation by a well-known hotel chain. Derek Adams Derek Adams visited 238 lifeboats during his journey Derek Adams Derek Adams attended Sunday services at several different churches during the trek As a church-goer, he has attended services wherever he happened to be on a Sunday morning and is often asked to speak to the congregation. He said: "It's just wonderful because they haven't heard me before so most of them invite me to say a few words and then, about an hour later, they think 'well, that was interesting, wasn't it? I need a coffee!'" Derek Adams Derek Adams covered the English, Scottish and Welsh coastlines during the walk He found he needed a coffee on the last morning of his walk, and one of the "little angels" who have "popped up all over the place" during his journey came to the rescue with a cup. It turned out the angel's name was also Derek - "They're always kind people, these Dereks," mused Mr Adams. As well as raising money, he hopes his cheerful approach will inspire others: "Look after each other, smile a lot, it doesn't cost anything but it's very, very infectious." Follow Beds, Herts and Bucks news on BBC Sounds, Facebook, Instagram and X.
BBC News
28-04-2025
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Morecambe 'have no plan for next season'
Morecambe boss Derek Adams has said the club still does not have a plan in place for next season as they prepare for a return to non-league Shrimps' 18-year stay in the English Football League came to an end as defeat by Salford City on Easter Monday brought a second relegation in three their relegation, Adams said he was planning to be in the dugout next season but in the aftermath of Saturday's 4-1 League Two defeat by Chesterfield, the Scot said there is still uncertainty at board level as to what the plan will be for 2025-26."This is where the problem lies. The board of directors and the owner need to start planning," he told BBC Radio Lancashire."They don't have a plan. Until they get a plan, then we've got a problem. They are the ones that are the custodians of this football club."Morecambe have been up for sale since September 2022 and face an uncertain future outside of the has been a tumultuous 12 months for the Shrimps, with points deductions and financial troubles overshadowing a difficult campaign on the field but Adams is pleased with the attitude his squad have shown this term."Yes we've made errors, yes we've made things wrong, that's what happens in life and in sport but do you know what? We can go to sleep at night, put our head on the pillow and say we've given all to this football club," he added."And that's all anybody can ask for."
BBC News
25-04-2025
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Adams planning for next season with relegated Morecambe
Morecambe boss Derek Adams says he expects to be in the dugout next season as the club attempt to bounce back after relegation to the National Shrimps' 18-year stay in the Football League came to an end as defeat by Salford City on Easter Monday brought a second relegation in three to BBC Radio Lancashire, Adams admitted a difficult season off the pitch, with the club battling an uncertain financial future, had taken its the 49-year-old Scot insisted he remains committed to the club and confirmed he is already making plans for life in the fifth directly whether he would remain at the club next season, Adams said: "Yes. I'm under contract so I'll be here next season and players are under contract as well. "We have to find out what the budget is for next season. It didn't matter what division we were in, we still have to have a budget and we will have to wait what that is."But we are going to have to be in the play-off places next season, there is no doubt about it. We understand how competitive a league it is but for us to go down a division, that has to be our ultimate aim."Morecambe have been up for sale since September 2022 and face an uncertain future outside of the hopes to find out about next season's budget at a board meeting next week before the final game of the season against Shrimps also face a difficult penultimate match of the season at promotion-chasing Chesterfield on Saturday with Adams insisting they are keen to go down fighting."To lose 15 games 1-0 shows how close we were but we haven't been good enough to win those games," he said. "But we want to go to Chesterfield and put on a performance."
BBC News
23-04-2025
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'Positive progress' made towards Morecambe sale
Morecambe's board of directors say that "positive progress" has been made towards the sale of the Shrimps' relegation from League Two was confirmed with defeat to Salford City on will now play National League football for the first time since 2007 after a tumultuous 12 Jason Whittingham, in charge since 2018, is very keen to sell the club and in a statement, the directors said, external: "The process of selling the club is ongoing and, as things stand today, there appears to have been real, positive and recent progress within the last two weeks." For Morecambe and their manager Derek Adams, this season has been a struggle from the moment the last one ended.A transfer embargo was only lifted in early July and it meant Adams had to quickly scramble a squad with the club's owners again came to light in January as transfers were blocked until funds to see out the season were have spent virtually the whole season in the bottom two and four successive defeats confirmed a second relegation in three directors describe relegation as a "profound disappointment" but are calling upon fans to keep their "belief and support" ahead of National League added: "We are confident that, together, we can rise above this latest challenge in our 105-year history and reclaim our place in the higher echelons of English football."
