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The new course swaps the climb through Northfield for a loop round Greyling Bay, and organisers hope it will attract more first-time runners.
From mountain slopes to woodland edges, beekeepers' colourful hives and combs full of work.
Member states of an international maritime body have backed seasonal slow-speed areas along whale migration corridors in the North Atlantic, asking ships to cut speed to 10 knots where humpbacks gather.
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.
Practices across Wrenhaven say appointment demand typically climbs sharply in the colder months, and they are encouraging people to arrange non-urgent reviews and screening now.
Squash, kale, the last of the plums and the first proper leeks: the market stalls on Old Quay are heavy with autumn produce. Traders and a local chef share what to buy now and how to use it.
Volunteers at Fenwick Point are among more than 200 sites counting and ringing migrating birds this autumn, building a picture of the journeys made by waders and songbirds.
Next year's five-day race will finish one stage at the top of the Cairnside climb, giving the event its first summit finish.
Tarmac winding beneath the clouds, dirt tracks plunging into forest and pastures opening onto the peaks.
Imogen Hart clocked 52.41 seconds at the regional open meeting, taking almost three tenths off a mark that had stood since before she started running competitively.
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.
More than 300 objects, from hand-braided rope ladders to a herring net still smelling faintly of tar, fill the museum's grand hall in a show built around the skills that kept the harbour working.
Built on open data from charge-point operators and the council, the free app tells drivers how long they are likely to wait at each charger and has grown to about 19,000 regular users.
More than 600 swimmers from 28 clubs are competing at the city aquatics centre over four days, and the host club made a fast start in the 50-metre pool.
Around 600 people came to pick, press and learn at the Millbrook community orchard at the weekend, leaving with juice, saplings and the beginnings of a new skill.
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.
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.
Crews from 41 clubs raced over two days on the stretch between Millbrook and the city, making this year's anniversary regatta the largest in its history.
Researchers from the Wrenhaven Marine Institute are part of an international team following a newly calved iceberg roughly twice the size of the city as it drifts away from a West Antarctic glacier.
Every production in the company's new season is a premiere, and three of the four were written by playwrights living within a tram ride of the Tidewater stage.
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.
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.
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.
Blackberries, rosehips and sweet chestnuts are plentiful this year, but experts warn that mushrooms should never be eaten unless identified with complete certainty.
Alongside its usual programme in the Asher Arts Centre cinema, this year's Film Week is putting up a giant screen on the Harbourside quay for six free evening shows.
