Monday 2 November 2026
The new 14-station line cuts the trip between the centre and the coastal districts to 22 minutes. Rides are free for the first week.
Marcus Feld ·Empty trams are now running through the small hours on the 4.2 km Line 2 extension to Northfield, as engineers check brakes, signals and platform edges before passengers board next spring.
Councillors have approved a three-year programme to lift the Old Quay sea wall by up to 90 centimetres after waves repeatedly spilled over it last winter, flooding cellars and closing the harbour road.
A new consortium of grid operators plans a meshed network of subsea cables linking offshore wind farms across the North Sea, so surplus power from one coast can flow to another when the wind drops.
More than 600 residents of Holloway and two neighbouring villages have bought shares in a single community-owned turbine, with stakes starting at €250 and profits promised to stay in the valley.
A start-up founded by researchers at the University of Wrenhaven says its new sensor chip can run for a decade on one small battery, making dense networks of flood gauges far cheaper to maintain.
After eighteen months behind scaffolding, the Central Library on Old Quay is open again, with a repaired roof, a digitised harbour archive and a reading room that stays open until midnight.
Practices across Wrenhaven say appointment demand typically climbs sharply in the colder months, and they are encouraging people to arrange non-urgent reviews and screening now.
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.
Grace Mwangi ·Nordlys Rail says sleeper carriages will run three nights a week between six port cities, with a stop in Wrenhaven's twin town Velde. Ticket sales are expected to open in the new year.
The Hallvard Seed Archive received more than 48,000 samples, including old varieties of wheat, beans and barley from the Asher Valley, as gene banks back up their collections.
The family-owned baker will add two production lines and a new packing hall, in what it says is the largest single investment in its 94-year history.
Members in four neighbourhoods without a bank branch can now pay in savings, ask about loans and get help with budgeting on the same visit as borrowing a book.
Daniel Okafor
Give the pavement back to the people who walk on it
Priya Nandakumar
Our notifications are renting out our attention
Tomás Herrera
What we lose when the neighbourhood pitch disappears
Margaret Ellison
The library is the last free living room in town
Jonas Lindqvist
Movement starts in daily life, not in the gym
When the downpour arrives the city changes pace; lights multiply on the tarmac and footsteps quicken.
From the Mediterranean to the Baltic, frames from the colourful world of boats moored in small harbours.
From laptops to smartwatches, mixing desks to drones, the technology of everyday life.
From hillsides to plains, from sheep grazing beneath the panels to the view from the air.
Wrenhaven's health service is adding late sessions at three community clinics after appointments for the first week of the autumn vaccination programme were fully booked within days.
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