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Holloway Biscuit Company to expand its Eastmoor factory, creating 220 jobs
Why it matters: 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.
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Lucas Moreau Business
Harvest season: rice pours into a waiting trailer
Why it matters: Paddy streaming from a combine’s unloading auger quickly filled the trailer at the edge of the field.
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Ingrid Halvorsen Business
Forestry harvester at work in a winter woodland
Why it matters: A timber machine working through a snowy birch wood stacks felled trunks by the track.
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Rafael Ortega Business
Combines side by side in a wheat field: the harvest from above
Why it matters: Drone footage shows two combine harvesters unloading grain into a moving tractor trailer.
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Owen Pryce Business
Saltings shipyard wins order for three electric harbour ferries
Why it matters: 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.
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Isabel Duarte 10 photos Business
Tea gardens: green terraces on the hillsides
Why it matters: From Sri Lanka to Vietnam, Rwanda to Japan, the rhythmic green patterns of tea plantations.
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Callum Reid Business
Pop-up shops push Wrenhaven high-street vacancy rate to a six-year low
Why it matters: A scheme offering empty units to start-up traders on short, cheap leases has filled 37 shopfronts, and a third of the tenants have now signed longer contracts.
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Marcus Feld Business
Greyling Hills sawmill switches to engineered timber for apartment blocks
Why it matters: Hartshorn Timber has invested in a press that glues layers of local spruce into large structural panels, and has won its first order for a six-storey housing scheme.
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Grace Mwangi 11 photos Business
Harvest time in the vineyards: from grapes to landscapes
Why it matters: Frames showing the season's work and scenery in Europe's vineyards.
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Port of Wrenhaven handles record container volumes as Asher Point deep-water berth opens
Why it matters: The port moved more boxes in the past quarter than in any three months on record, helped by a new 400-metre berth that can take the largest ships now calling in the region.
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Leo Novak Business
Old Quay market traders adopt card payments as cash use falls
Why it matters: Almost every stall at the weekend market now takes cards after a group deal cut fees, though traders say they will keep accepting coins for regulars who prefer them.
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Elena Sokolova Business
Asher Valley villagers club together to buy their own wind turbine
Why it matters: 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.
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Beekeeping: honey season at the hives
Why it matters: From mountain slopes to woodland edges, beekeepers' colourful hives and combs full of work.
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Tom Ashworth Business
Old Quay fish auction goes online as inland restaurants join the bidding
Why it matters: Buyers can now bid for the morning catch from a phone or laptop, and fishers say prices at Wrenhaven's oldest market have become noticeably less volatile since the switch.
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Nadia Karim Business
Empty Harbourside office blocks to become 600 flats as remote work reshapes the docks
Why it matters: Three office buildings that have stood largely vacant since staff began working from home are being converted into homes, the biggest scheme of its kind the city has approved.
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Coastal guesthouses fill quiet months by bundling walks and food breaks
Why it matters: Small hotels and guesthouses around Greyling Bay report a rise in out-of-season bookings after joining forces to sell guided walks, cookery sessions and harbour suppers as short-break packages.
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