Brian Mitchener News Today

EASTER Sunday saw Oliver’s Battery eggs-plode with fun. Around 180 people, young and old joined in with four Easter Egg Hunts.

US-based Cresta Fund Management (Cresta) will work with carbon capture and storage (CCS) specialist Lapis Energy LP (Lapis) to develop and deploy technology that will help decarbonise the industrial sector.

Cresta Fund Management and Lapis Energy have announced an agreement for Cresta to fund the Company’s origination, development and implementation of Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) and clean hydrogen projects that enable industrial de-carbonisation critical to the achievement of global net zero goals.

Neighbours are unhappy about plans for side extensions at Jaspers, Farley Close, in Olivers Battery. A Ms Dade has made the application to enlarge a three-bedroom home to a five-bedroom one, sparking eight objections and two letters of support. Objector Celia Palmer addressed the planning committee: "We urge you to reject this massive extension because it will set a precedent for Farley and Shepherds Close. It is out of keeping and proportion and more than doubles the bungalows existing f...