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Cash award over River Severn power plan - BBC News

More than £40,000 has been awarded to a Shropshire group which is hoping to generate power from the River Severn. Transition Town Shrewsbury has said the weir at Castlefields in the town could generate up to two million kilowatt hours of electricity a year. More...

Ferry across River Severn to cost more than £30,000 - Shropshire Star

A ferry, which will transport people across the Severn in Shrewsbury for five months while a footbridge is closed, will cost £30,000, it has been revealed. But the Shrewsbury Ferry Project is facing a funding shortfall of more than £5,000. The race is ... More...

Railway project could link up tourist attractions along River Severn from Sharpness to Oldbury - This is South Cotswolds

A RAILWAY project, which could eventually see tourist spots along the banks of the River Severn linked up, is going full steam ahead. Volunteers involved with the Beaver line, which stands for Berkeley Vale Railway, have said they are optimistic about the ... More...

Betty Yates: rural idyll in fear of a killer in its midst - Daily Telegraph

To get home after a day full of seeing friends, the retired teacher had to drive almost a mile along a track beside the River Severn, before reaching the cottage in the woods that she occupied alone. On Saturday, the way was blocked by a police van. More...

'Big cats are out there', say two Gloucestershire trackers - BBC News

Mr Minter, meanwhile, said he had seen three big cats in the wild - a black panther in Cumbria, a puma-like cat in a Cotswold woodland and a smaller cat, "like a jungle cat", near the River Severn in Gloucester. Between June 2007 and April 2011 ... More...

Dazzling new look for historic bridge - Worcester News

Plans are in place to replace 104 old lights with 96 new ones on the balustrade and arches of the main crossing over the river Severn in the city centre. The work will cost £116,000 to complete but chiefs estimate the new lights will help save 75 per cent ... More...

Commissioning Week Without the Blue Angels? - HometownAnnapolis.com

while driving over the Severn River bridge on Rt. 50. Wherever you are in Annapolis during Commissioning Week, you feel the power and the pride of the Navy and the tribute they pay to their newest and richly deserving new officers and the city that embraces them. More...

Around Broadneck: 37 students participate in annual chess tournament - HometownAnnapolis.com

"It helps me concentrate on strategies to solve math problems and helps me focus," she said. Ethan O'Malley, a seventh-grader at Severn River Middle, took home the Middle School Division trophy. Magothy River sixth-grader Sander Miller broke a ... More...

Murdered OAP'S Family 'Bewildered' Over Death - Sky.com

Betty Yates, 77, a retired schoolteacher, was stabbed to death at her secluded home on the banks of the River Severn at Bewdley, Worcestershire, on January 2. During a news conference her son David Yates and daughter Hazel Costello appealed for information. More...

Murder detectives seek two men - The Independent

The men were seen separately near the River Severn close to Bewdley, Worcestershire, on Monday January 2, two days before Betty Yates was found dead. Police believe that Mrs Yates was killed on January 2 and say they are keen to trace the men and eliminate ... More...

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