The Analog Tag Team Open is a new Surf contest aimed at developing UK surfing, getting young surfers in the water with the pros providing them with a stage to impress. Taking place at Down End, Croyde, North Devon on Saturday 19th July. The contest will see 12 team captains (all pros from the UK surf community) each with a team of 4 surfers go head to head in a tag team style competition.

Board Shorts the Cornwall Film Festival’s international surf, skate and snowboarding film event, is now in its fourth year and it's expanding again to accommodate a bigger line up. Board Shorts will feature a series of short films and slide shows selected to inspire all. This year’s event welcomes international entries as well as the very best of British talent.

Mr B Productions & Wavelength Magazine present a new level of British & Irish Surfing. Substance is entirely shot in Britain & Ireland and features some of the best waves and surfing ever captured in the British Isles. Perfect Waves, Epic Sessions, Incredible Surfing, ALL AT HOME!

It’s World Environment Day and Surfers Against Sewage (SAS) investigators have released a film that exposes poor industry practice from ‘plastic injection moulding factories’, which is leading to a pollution epidemic of the nation’s waterways and coastline. SAS campaigners have focused their attention on plastic and polystyrene pellets. These are the very raw materials that many of today’s plastic products are moulded from, yet millions of them are being deposited around the UK’s coastline.

There's a line in "Cyprus Avenue" - that song of songs from the better back catalogue of Van Morrison - where he stutters "my tongue gets tied, every, every, every time I try to speak". I've had the same problem trying to articulate a long overdue review that would do justice to Musica Surfica - a sublime film shot on King Island, Australia that tracks the progress of a group of extraordinary surfers as they embark on a "grand adventure" where classical music collides with radical surfing.

Surfers Against Sewage (SAS) campaigners take to the road next month for a western seaboard leg of The Grassroots Tour. Each year SAS plan a weeklong tour that visits key watersport sites up and down the country. Over the last few years we've been the length and breadth of the country and met some great people that are passionate about protecting and improving their coastal environment for all to enjoy.

From the film-makers who brought you Singlefin: yellow, DRIVE and Stylemasters, comes One California Day, a story about surf culture and tradition. This movie features surfing from some of the world's best including Joel Tudor, Joe Curren, Alex Knost, the Malloys and many more.

It’s election day in Guernsey and SAS are urging the electorate to vote for those candidates that support a move away from the raw sewage ‘pump and dump’ philosophy currently used on the island.Earlier this week SAS campaigners went ‘turdabout’ in Guernsey, by dragging a giant inflatable poo around Bellegreve Bay from the back of a R.I.B and then descending on St Peter Port’s high street to leaflet voters on which candidates support full sewage treatment.

...an Orangeman in a grass skirt? No, you get George Freeth, often billed as the "first surfer in the United States". Apparently, Georgie's old man hailed from Ulster and fell for a Wahine after he emigrated to Hawaii. The offspring of their loins turned out to be a rather interesting dude. As inscribed on a memorial statue at Redondo beach in California...

Surfers Against Sewage (SAS) has begun its election campaigning for improved sewage treatment in Guernsey by asking all prospective candidates to answer a 'sewage questionnaire'. The resulting answers will be compiled and shown online at www.sas.org.uk in the run up to polling day.