Solar farms: rows of panels across the fields
From hillsides to plains, from sheep grazing beneath the panels to the view from the air.
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Owen Pryce
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The Regent, a 1930s cinema in Bramley Cross, reopens after a volunteer-led restoration
Closed for almost two decades, the art deco picture house has been brought back to life by a community trust and will show films five nights a week.
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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.
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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.
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Museum of the Sea opens Knots and Nets, an exhibition of maritime crafts
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.