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Lifestyle · 2 min Millbrook repair café fixes 400 items in its first year, from toasters to teddy bears Volunteers with screwdrivers, sewing machines and soldering irons meet once a month to keep broken things out of the bin, and to teach owners how to mend them. Diego Fernández · 25 October 2026, 15:00

Sports · 3 min Council to restore 48 neighbourhood football pitches across Wrenhaven over two years Patched goalmouths, rusted frames and waterlogged corners will be tackled in a phased programme, with the first 20 sites chosen after residents and local clubs flagged the worst problems. Diego Fernández · 21 October 2026, 02:13

Lifestyle · 2 min A book club on the morning ferry: commuters read together on the Saltings route Every weekday at twenty past seven, a dozen or more passengers gather on the upper deck of the Saltings ferry to talk about a novel. The crossing takes 35 minutes; the club has lasted three years. Leo Novak · 21 October 2026, 01:58

Sports · 3 min What we lose when the neighbourhood pitch disappears The scraps of land where children once played were never just football pitches. They were classrooms where a generation learned to live together. Tomás Herrera · 15 October 2026, 21:29

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