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Burst water main closes Holloway Road as Netherby homes lose supply
Why it matters: 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.
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Samuel Adeyemi News
Timelapse shows a river of cloud rolling over the canyon
Why it matters: Low cloud brought by colder weather poured over the red rock walls in slow waves.
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Hannah Okoye News
Steam column surges skyward from a geyser basin
Why it matters: Water and steam kept bursting from a rocky basin on a volcanic plateau for minutes on end.
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Ingrid Halvorsen News
Harbourside Promenade to get a protected two-way cycle lane after consultation
Why it matters: The 2.4-kilometre lane will be separated from traffic by a raised kerb and planters, with work beginning in February and the seafront road reduced to one lane each way.
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Chloé Martin 10 photos News
The city under snow: a white silence
Why it matters: When the snow falls the streets slow down; ploughs get to work, bicycles disappear and lights look warmer.
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Jamal Carter News
Volunteers plant 1,800 street trees across Wrenhaven in a single weekend
Why it matters: 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.
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Sofia Marchetti News
Weekly food-waste collections to reach 40,000 homes in Eastmoor and Northfield
Why it matters: 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.
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Grace Mwangi News
Millbrook footbridge over the River Asher reopens after flood repairs
Why it matters: The 80-year-old crossing, closed since floodwater damaged its foundations last winter, is back in use with stronger piers and a wider deck.
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Northfield tram extension begins night-time test runs ahead of spring opening
Why it matters: 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.
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Callum Reid News
New fire station opens at Bramley Cross, cutting response times in the north of the city
Why it matters: 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.
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Liam Brennan News
Council backs €48m plan to raise and strengthen the Old Quay sea wall
Why it matters: 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.
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Leo Novak News
Greyling Bay lifeboat crew rescue four kayakers swept out by offshore wind
Why it matters: Volunteers launched within minutes of the alarm and found the group clinging to two overturned boats about two kilometres from shore.
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Tom Ashworth News
Tarnmere village post office saved as residents open a community shop
Why it matters: 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.
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Kestrel Park fully reopens after two-year restoration of its lake and woodland
Why it matters: 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.
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Daniel Osei News
All nine Wrenhaven beaches pass bathing-water tests for a third year running
Why it matters: 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.
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Asher Valley wheat harvest beats five-year average despite a wet spring
Why it matters: 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.
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