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Owen Pryce
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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.
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.
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.
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.