Possible Clues:

• Cut off, marooned
• Description of Robinson Crusoe found on the shore by writer
• Like the Minnow's passengers
• Tube station to which the pressman was abandoned
• Somewhere near Fleet Street, editor is left behind
• Left helpless: sad trend needs change
• Left afar, ultimately amidst environment that's beach-like?
• 'Cut off, marooned (8)'
• Description of Robinson Crusoe by a Bandon journalist
• Aground