Owen Pryce

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Latest piece · “From hillsides to plains, from sheep grazing beneath the panels to the view from the air.” From: Solar farms: rows of panels across the fields
  1. Technology · 11 photos · Solar farms: rows of panels across the fields From hillsides to plains, from sheep grazing beneath the panels to the view from the air.
  2. Culture · The Regent, a 1930s cinema in Bramley Cross, reopens after a volunteer-led restoration Closed for almost two decades, the art deco picture house has been brought back to life by a community trust and will show films five nights a week.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. Culture · Museum of the Sea opens Knots and Nets, an exhibition of maritime crafts More than 300 objects, from hand-braided rope ladders to a herring net still smelling faintly of tar, fill the museum's grand hall in a show built around the skills that kept the harbour working.