City Life
Burst water main closes Holloway Road as Netherby homes lose supply
Around 3,200 homes in Netherby are without running water after a large main burst beneath Holloway Road this morning. Bottled water stations are being set up while engineers work to isolate the pipe.
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.
Asher Valley wheat harvest beats five-year average despite a wet spring
Farmers in the Asher Valley have brought in a wheat crop well above recent averages, figures from the Growers' Cooperative show, after a dry, warm finish to the summer rescued fields that were waterlogged at sowing.
New fire station opens at Bramley Cross, cutting response times in the north of the city
The station, the first new one in Wrenhaven for 25 years, houses two fire engines and a rescue unit and is expected to shave several minutes off emergency calls in the northern suburbs.
Greyling Bay lifeboat crew rescue four kayakers swept out by offshore wind
Volunteers launched within minutes of the alarm and found the group clinging to two overturned boats about two kilometres from shore.
Tarnmere village post office saved as residents open a community shop
When the village's only shop and post office closed in the spring, neighbours raised €140,000 in shares to reopen it themselves, with volunteers working alongside two paid staff.