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Council to restore 48 neighbourhood football pitches across Wrenhaven over two years

Patched goalmouths, rusted frames and waterlogged corners will be tackled in a phased programme, with the first 20 sites chosen after residents and local clubs flagged the worst problems.

A book club on the morning ferry: commuters read together on the Saltings route

Every weekday at twenty past seven, a dozen or more passengers gather on the upper deck of the Saltings ferry to talk about a novel. The crossing takes 35 minutes; the club has lasted three years.

Tomás Herrera

What we lose when the neighbourhood pitch disappears

The scraps of land where children once played were never just football pitches. They were classrooms where a generation learned to live together.