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The new tram line opens on Sunday
Eleven stops, a twelve-minute run end to end, and free travel for the first week.
Grain growers expect their best season in six years
A mild winter and steady rain in March have left the fields heavy; the first deliveries start next week.
The observatory photographs a comet three nights running
A visitor from the outer system, brightest just before dawn, and the plates are open to anyone who asks.
Small workshops turn to solar power
Forty-one workshops have put panels on their roofs this year, most of them paying for the work over three years.
The library digitises its oldest manuscripts
Nine hundred pages photographed so far, and the reading room keeps the originals under glass.
Rail freight returns to the northern line
Two trains a week to begin with, carrying timber and bottled water, after eleven years of nothing.
The bridge reopens after eighteen months
Two lanes instead of four, a proper footway on both sides, and the detour signs come down on Friday.
Beekeepers report a good spring
Colony losses at their lowest in four years, and the association puts it down to the late frost that never came.
The port publishes its quarterly figures
Container traffic up a tenth, bulk cargo flat, and the new crane arrives in October.
The school robotics team places second
Eleven of them, a machine built from a bicycle and a printer, and a fourteen-hour bus ride home.