Fine Print: Cromarty. Wednesday 18 August 1993. Variable 3 or less, becoming southwesterly 3 or 4, occasionally 5. Occasional rain later. Mainly good. Enri Canaj Queen Elizabeth II smiles broadly

Queen Elizabeth II smiles broadly as she passes a crowd of people waiting to see her in London

The last days of Concorde

Olivia Arthur’s photographs were made in rural France during the last days of summer

Afghanistan and Iraq since 1991

Fine Print: Cromarty. Wednesday 18 August 1993. Variable 3 or less, becoming southwesterly 3 or 4, occasionally 5. Occasional rain later. Mainly good. Enri Canaj Queen Elizabeth II smiles broadlyIntangible and mysterious, familiar yet obscure, the Shipping Forecast is broadcast four times daily on BBC Radio 4. For those at, or about to put to sea, the forecast may mean the difference between life and death. But for millions of landlubbing radio listeners it is more than this; the enigmatic language of the forecast has entered public consciousness, creating a landscape of the imagination and confirming romantic notions of Britain's island