News of 25 October 2026

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.

Business

Forestry harvester at work in a winter woodland

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

Sports

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Lifestyle

Mountain villages before winter

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

Sports

Paragliding at sunset: gliding over the mountains

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

Sports

Kitesurfers make the most of a windy beach

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

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.

Sports

Mountain biking down a sagebrush trail

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

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.

Health

A day in the lab: samples examined with care

Technicians in white coats work on blood and tissue samples inside biosafety cabinets.

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.

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.

Health

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

World

Guardians of the coast: lighthouses around the world

From Crete to Iceland, Kerala to the Great Lakes: towers standing firm against wind and waves.

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.