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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.

Grace Mwangi · 6 days ago

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Rainy streets: umbrellas, wet pavements and reflections

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Night buses to run around the clock on three Wrenhaven routes from spring

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Wrenhaven opens the third stage of its light rail: capacity for 400,000 passengers a day

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Lava fountain filmed from a helicopter above a volcanic crater

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Timelapse shows a river of cloud rolling over the canyon

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Steam column surges skyward from a geyser basin

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Harbourside Promenade to get a protected two-way cycle lane after consultation

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26 October 2026, Monday

04:14 10 photosNews The city under snow: a white silence When the snow falls the streets slow down; ploughs get to work, bicycles disappear and lights look warmer. Chloé Martin

25 October 2026, Sunday

18:23 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. Jamal Carter

17:27 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. Sofia Marchetti

24 October 2026, Saturday

07:47 News Millbrook footbridge over the River Asher reopens after flood repairs The 80-year-old crossing, closed since floodwater damaged its foundations last winter, is back in use with stronger piers and a wider deck. Grace Mwangi

22 October 2026, Thursday

15:59 News Northfield tram extension begins night-time test runs ahead of spring opening 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. Hannah Okoye

07:50 News 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. Callum Reid

05:02 News Council backs €48m plan to raise and strengthen the Old Quay sea wall 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. Liam Brennan

01:42 News 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. Leo Novak

21 October 2026, Wednesday

21:45 News 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. Tom Ashworth

06:16 News Kestrel Park fully reopens after two-year restoration of its lake and woodland The fences are down at Kestrel Park, where a two-year restoration has cleared decades of silt from the boating lake, added 600 trees and given the city's largest green space a new play area and café. Sofia Marchetti

20 October 2026, Tuesday

23:42 News All nine Wrenhaven beaches pass bathing-water tests for a third year running Every beach in the city has met national bathing-water standards again, with six rated excellent, after sewer overflow upgrades cut the number of spills into Greyling Bay by more than half. Daniel Osei

16:33 News 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. Hannah Okoye