“Send him up!” a fisherman says into his radio as I sit precariously on the bow of his boat, bobbing in the cold swells of the Atlantic, more than 30 miles from shore. A wooden plank beneath ...

She had been reacting to footage of a BBC Radio Oxford guest, who was able to bend a frying pan with his bare hands, showing off her own strength on Tuesday by bending a BBC canteen spoon.

When it comes to famous ships from the history of the Cape Fear Coast, one of the most storied is the United States lightship Frying Pan, also known as Lightship No. 115 or the Frying Pan lightship.