The autumn food festival returns to the town square this weekend with a record number of stalls, live cooking demonstrations and family activities. Visitors will be able to taste dishes from local restaurants, bakeries and street-food traders, and many producers…
New bus routes will come into service next month in an effort to cut journey times, reduce congestion and make public transport a more attractive choice for daily travel. The revised network adds direct links between residential areas, the hospital,…
A new community garden on a once-empty plot of land is bringing neighbours together and giving local people a chance to grow their own food. Volunteers cleared the site, built raised beds and planted vegetables, herbs and flowers, and the…
The central library will extend its opening hours from next month after a public consultation showed strong demand for evening and weekend access. The library will now stay open until eight in the evening on weekdays and will open on…
The city council has approved plans for a new riverside park that will give families, walkers and cyclists a safer and greener place to spend time outdoors. The park will include wide paths, open lawns, a children’s play area and…
Gold is holding firm as investors look for safety in an uncertain world. When confidence in shares and bonds wavers, money has a long habit of flowing towards the metal — and this episode is proving no exception, with prices…
The newest generation of robots is not here to replace workers — it is here to work beside them. Known as collaborative robots, or cobots, these machines are designed to share a workspace with people, taking on the heavy, repetitive…
Not long ago, the stock market was a club run by professionals. Today, millions of small investors trade from their phones, share ideas in online forums, and move prices in ways that would once have been unthinkable. The balance of…
When the dollar climbs, the effects ripple far beyond currency desks. A stronger greenback makes American goods dearer abroad and foreign goods cheaper at home — quietly redrawing the map of who buys from whom, and at what price. For…
Every three months, the corporate calendar delivers its ritual drama: earnings season. Companies announce their results, headlines trumpet beats and misses, and share prices lurch on the news. But the numbers that move markets in an afternoon rarely tell the…