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Painting missing for 60 years found in Millbrook attic and handed to Wrenhaven Art Gallery
A harbour scene that vanished from a council office in the 1960s has turned up wrapped in a blanket under the eaves of a terraced house in Millbrook. Its finder has given it to the city's art gallery.
Harbour Lights Festival opens on the quay with three days of free music
Forty-two acts, two stages and no ticket barrier: the city's biggest free music weekend began last night on Old Quay, with organisers expecting more than 40,000 visitors before the final encore.
Morning in Cappadocia: fairy chimneys and balloons overhead
Volcanic valleys, rock-cut dwellings and the balloons that lift off at dawn, told in photographs.
Winter storm rolls over the Grand Canyon in timelapse
Clouds and curtains of precipitation drift over the canyon's red cliffs in a timelapse.
The library is the last free living room in town
One of the few places where we can sit for hours without buying anything, the public library now holds far more than books.
Central Library reopens after renovation with a late-night reading room
After eighteen months behind scaffolding, the Central Library on Old Quay is open again, with a repaired roof, a digitised harbour archive and a reading room that stays open until midnight.
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.
Historic stone bridges: centuries-old arches over rivers
From village streams to broad rivers, examples of stonework that has stood the test of time.
Guitars at the museum: the story of strings
Acoustic and electric guitars, banjos and old photographs line the cases on a journey through music history.
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.
Night show on the shore: fireworks bloom above the water
Spectators lining the seafront watched coloured fireworks open in half-domes on the surface of the sea.
As the towers light up: a riverside skyline turns to night
A timelapse turns a cloudy evening into night as towers and skyscrapers switch on their lights.
Ruins of a medieval stronghold seen from the air
Drone footage shows stone walls on a green hill, a manor house and the small town around them.
Tidewater Theatre Company opens its season with four new plays
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.
In defence of reading slowly
In an age of speed and summaries, losing yourself unhurriedly in a book has become a rarer and more precious experience.
Wrenhaven Film Week brings free open-air screenings to the quayside
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.
Markets and street food: a riot of colour on the stalls
From spices to fresh vegetables, scenes from markets around the world.
Old Quay Jazz Weekend returns with 40 free gigs in pubs, cafés and on harbour boats
The festival is back after a year's break, with a pared-back budget, a focus on local musicians and a floating stage on a former ferry.
Saltings Pottery Guild pairs young makers with master potters
Twelve young makers will spend nine months at the wheel beside experienced potters in the marsh villages, in a scheme the guild hopes will keep its craft alive for another generation.
Independent bookshop opens in a former bank on Ropewalk Lane, vault and all
Two former librarians have turned a 1920s bank into a bookshop, with children's books in the old strongroom and a reading table where the counter used to be.