Archive

25 October 2026

30 stories

  1. Business Harvest season: rice pours into a waiting trailer Paddy streaming from a combine’s unloading auger quickly filled the trailer at the edge of the field.
  2. Business Forestry harvester at work in a winter woodland A timber machine working through a snowy birch wood stacks felled trunks by the track.
  3. Sports · 10 photos On the bike route: pedalling from parks to forest tracks A rest by the lake, rides along tree-lined paths and bikes waiting on every street corner.
  4. Lifestyle Which Wrenhaven beaches welcome dogs this winter, and the rules owners should know Seasonal restrictions have lifted on most of the city's beaches, but a few stretches remain off-limits to protect wintering birds.
  5. Business Combines side by side in a wheat field: the harvest from above Drone footage shows two combine harvesters unloading grain into a moving tractor trailer.
  6. Culture · 10 photos Guitars at the museum: the story of strings Acoustic and electric guitars, banjos and old photographs line the cases on a journey through music history.
  7. News Volunteers plant 1,800 street trees across Wrenhaven in a single weekend More than 700 residents turned out with spades as part of a scheme to bring shade and greenery to the city's most built-up streets, with each tree adopted by a nearby household.
  8. Technology Search-and-rescue robot tackles a stepped obstacle course A tracked robot used its cameras and lights to pick its way across a field of uneven wooden blocks.
  9. News Weekly food-waste collections to reach 40,000 homes in Eastmoor and Northfield Households will receive a small kitchen caddy and an outdoor bin, with the waste sent to a digester that turns it into biogas and fertiliser for Asher Valley farms.
  10. Technology Tidal turbine prototype starts generating in the channel off Fenwick Point The 500-kilowatt machine sits on the seabed and turns with the incoming and outgoing tides, and engineers will spend two years testing how it copes with strong currents.
  11. Technology A 3D model of a Mars rover, seen from every angle The animation shows the six-wheeled rover’s robotic arm, cameras and chassis in detail.
  12. Lifestyle Millbrook repair café fixes 400 items in its first year, from toasters to teddy bears Volunteers with screwdrivers, sewing machines and soldering irons meet once a month to keep broken things out of the bin, and to teach owners how to mend them.
  13. Technology Night launch: a sounding rocket climbs through the clouds Fired from a pad ringed by trees, the rocket left a trail of flame before vanishing into cloud.
  14. Lifestyle · 10 photos Mountain villages before winter Houses clinging to hillsides, paths leading up to high pastures and valleys waiting for the first snow.
  15. Sports Paragliding at sunset: gliding over the mountains Launching from a hillside, the pilot made a long glide through golden light above the valley.
  16. Sports Kitesurfers make the most of a windy beach Under the late-afternoon sun, dozens of colourful kites caught the breeze above the waves.
  17. World International team measures how fast the Cerro Blanco glacier is shrinking Scientists from five countries spent three weeks on the ice in the Andes, using radar and drones to measure its thickness, and found it has lost a fifth of its area in 20 years.
  18. Sports Mountain biking down a sagebrush trail Weaving through the bends of a dirt track, the rider kept up speed across the dry scrubland.
  19. Business Saltings shipyard wins order for three electric harbour ferries The contract, worth around €27m, will keep the yard's slipways busy until 2029 and replace the diesel boats that cross between Old Quay and the Saltings.
  20. Health A day in the lab: samples examined with care Technicians in white coats work on blood and tissue samples inside biosafety cabinets.
  21. Health Pharmacists to treat seven common ailments without a GP appointment From next month, community pharmacies in Wrenhaven will be able to assess and treat conditions such as earache, sore throats and minor skin infections.
  22. Health Hiking the ridge trail: health one step at a time Walkers on a path between rocky hills made their way past bright orange poppies.
  23. Health · 12 photos A walk in the autumn forest: colours that soothe the mind Frames to accompany a slow walk through woods where the leaves have turned gold, copper and crimson.
  24. Culture Night show on the shore: fireworks bloom above the water Spectators lining the seafront watched coloured fireworks open in half-domes on the surface of the sea.
  25. Lifestyle A late-autumn camping weekend in the Greyling Hills: where to pitch and what to pack Campsites are quiet, the colours are at their best and the nights are long. With the right kit, autumn can be the best season to sleep outdoors.
  26. Culture As the towers light up: a riverside skyline turns to night A timelapse turns a cloudy evening into night as towers and skyscrapers switch on their lights.
  27. Sports Wrenhaven Athletic drawn at home to top-flight Velmont in the national cup The Wrens will host one of the country's leading sides at Gull Lane in the fourth round, a tie the club expects to sell out within days.
  28. Culture Ruins of a medieval stronghold seen from the air Drone footage shows stone walls on a green hill, a manor house and the small town around them.
  29. World · 12 photos Guardians of the coast: lighthouses around the world From Crete to Iceland, Kerala to the Great Lakes: towers standing firm against wind and waves.
  30. Lifestyle A waterfall tumbling step by step through the forest Water spilling from a high rock wall runs over mossy ledges in a series of small cascades.