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.
25 October 2026
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25 October 2026
Forestry harvester at work in a winter woodland
A timber machine working through a snowy birch wood stacks felled trunks by the track.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Mountain villages before winter
Houses clinging to hillsides, paths leading up to high pastures and valleys waiting for the first snow.
Paragliding at sunset: gliding over the mountains
Launching from a hillside, the pilot made a long glide through golden light above the valley.
Kitesurfers make the most of a windy beach
Under the late-afternoon sun, dozens of colourful kites caught the breeze above the waves.
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.
Mountain biking down a sagebrush trail
Weaving through the bends of a dirt track, the rider kept up speed across the dry scrubland.
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.
A day in the lab: samples examined with care
Technicians in white coats work on blood and tissue samples inside biosafety cabinets.
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.
Hiking the ridge trail: health one step at a time
Walkers on a path between rocky hills made their way past bright orange poppies.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Guardians of the coast: lighthouses around the world
From Crete to Iceland, Kerala to the Great Lakes: towers standing firm against wind and waves.
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.
