Torquay harbourside has been awarded a Purple Flag from the Association for Town Centre Management.

BBC: Torquay at night

According to a spokesman, the co-operative will run five ferries on the city's Harbourside on regular time-tabled services, 364 days a year.

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The harbourside has long been under-utilised as an event space, and temporarily changing that is the Very Big Screen on the Green (7 to 13 December).

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The race, which will take place on a new harbourside street circuit, will become the second Grand Prix in the Middle East after Bahrain.

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The 13.1-mile (21.1km) route started and finish in Anchor Road and takes runners on a harbourside route, which also passes twice under Brunel's Clifton Suspension Bridge.

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The sunny bank holiday weather had drawn a lot of visitors to the harbourside, and the surrounding waters of the Camel Estuary were said to have been calm on Sunday afternoon when the accident happened.

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By the time I reached cave-walled Cwmtydu Beach, I was tuckered out and retired via bus to New Quay, a town four miles away with plentiful harbourside restaurants, such as Traeth, which serves up regionally-sourced duck.

BBC: Walking the new Wales coastal path

Shark and Clark Islands, located off the harbourside suburb of Darling Point and Rose Bay respectively, became dedicated recreational areas as early as the 1870s and are now great places to watch the boat traffic in Sydney Harbour.

BBC: The islands of Sydney Harbour