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Combines side by side in a wheat field: the harvest from above
Drone footage shows two combine harvesters unloading grain into a moving tractor trailer.
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Rafael Ortega
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5 pieces- 25OCT 2026 Tidal turbine prototype starts generating in the channel off Fenwick PointThe 500-kilowatt machine sits on the seabed and turns with the incoming and outgoing tides, and engineers will spend two years testing how it copes with strong currents.
- 25OCT 2026 Guardians of the coast: lighthouses around the worldFrom Crete to Iceland, Kerala to the Great Lakes: towers standing firm against wind and waves.
- 20OCT 2026 Wrenhaven twin town Velde now runs entirely on community-owned solar powerVelde, the small inland town twinned with Wrenhaven, now produces as much electricity as it uses over a year from a solar park owned by its own residents through an energy cooperative.
- 20OCT 2026 Folk song archive of 3,000 recordings from the Asher Valley digitised and opened to allReel-to-reel tapes made in farmhouses and pubs from the 1950s onwards can now be heard free of charge, after a three-year project by the Central Library.