25 October 2026

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.

Chloé Martin25 Oct

What's in season at the Old Quay weekend market, and what to cook with it

Squash, kale, the last of the plums and the first proper leeks: the market stalls on Old Quay are heavy with autumn produce. Traders and a local chef share what to buy now and how to use it.

Mateo Silva25 Oct

Forestry harvester at work in a winter woodland

A timber machine working through a snowy birch wood stacks felled trunks by the track.

Isabel Duarte25 Oct

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.

Sofia Marchetti25 Oct

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.

Samuel Adeyemi25 Oct

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.

Leo Novak25 Oct

Culture

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.

Lucas Moreau25 Oct

Second-hand is no longer a sign of need. It's a sign of sense

Buying and selling used goods has become one of the soundest routes through the household economy, and one of the greenest.

Clara Whitfield25 Oct

Environment

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.

Jamal Carter25 Oct

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.

Freya Collins25 Oct

City Life

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.

Sofia Marchetti25 Oct

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.

Rafael Ortega25 Oct

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.

Mateo Silva25 Oct

Night sky and space: from the stars to Earth's lights

The Milky Way, star trails and auroras photographed from the International Space Station.

Jonah Becker25 Oct

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.

Diego Fernández25 Oct

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.

Jamal Carter25 Oct

Mountain villages before winter

Houses clinging to hillsides, paths leading up to high pastures and valleys waiting for the first snow.

Yasmin Haddad25 Oct

Paragliding at sunset: gliding over the mountains

Launching from a hillside, the pilot made a long glide through golden light above the valley.

Diego Fernández25 Oct

The bus stop deserves as much thought as the bus

Making public transport attractive starts not only with new lines, but with making those few minutes of waiting feel humane.

Daniel Okafor25 Oct

Water Sports

Kitesurfers make the most of a windy beach

Under the late-afternoon sun, dozens of colourful kites caught the breeze above the waves.

Callum Reid25 Oct

Bayside AC sprinter, 16, breaks a 12-year-old national junior 400m record at Kestrel Park

Imogen Hart clocked 52.41 seconds at the regional open meeting, taking almost three tenths off a mark that had stood since before she started running competitively.

Niamh Gallagher25 Oct

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.

Jonah Becker25 Oct

Old Quay fish auction goes online as inland restaurants join the bidding

Buyers can now bid for the morning catch from a phone or laptop, and fishers say prices at Wrenhaven's oldest market have become noticeably less volatile since the switch.

Tom Ashworth25 Oct

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.

Owen Pryce25 Oct

Wrenhaven-made app predicts queues at public car chargers across the region

Built on open data from charge-point operators and the council, the free app tells drivers how long they are likely to wait at each charger and has grown to about 19,000 regular users.

Mei Lin Tan25 Oct

Mountain biking down a sagebrush trail

Weaving through the bends of a dirt track, the rider kept up speed across the dry scrubland.

Ruth Abernathy25 Oct

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.

Owen Pryce25 Oct