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lIn road closures this week, Darlington Borough Council have announced the temporary road closure of South View in Heighington from its junction with Darlington Road westwards to the east side of its junction with Garthlands. An alternative route will be signposted. lDarlington Borough Council also announced the temporary order of a one-way system along Millbank in Heighington from a point 10 metres south of Hopelands junction northwards to the south side of its junction with The Orchard. ...

After a long, long, wait of 19 months and following a few days of rigging and re rigging as we tried to remember how the boats went together (it took me 20 minutes to work out how my runners should be rigged!). A select band of nine Conwy Fife One Designs, all looking resplendent in shiny new paint work, came to the line for the first race of the 2021 season. In the light North Easterly and with the last traces of snow still visible on the tops, our Race Officer, Chris Gofton decided on an X co...

Salcombe Yacht Club brought the start forward on Saturday April 17th to allow sailors to be off the water in time to celebrate the life of HRH the Duke of Edinburgh in the afternoon. The earlier start did nothing to diminish the enthusiasm of the 33 sailors who took to the water in a Force 3 East North Easterly on an ebbing tide. Race Officer, David Greening, set the fleets on a course to the Yalton Mark in order to provide a tactical beat then to Blackstone, a Y mark of Port Waterhouse followe...

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The America's Cup match remains locked at three all after light winds forced races seven and eight to be abandoned on Auckland's Hauraki Gulf

Date Time Bushfire Watch and Act – Tilley Swamp Please see the following important message from the CFS issued for Tilley Swamp near Tilley Swamp Conservation park in the Upper South East. The Princes Highway is currently CLOSED in this area due to the bush fire. Please be patient and take direction from emergency services at the scene. BUSHFIRE WATCH AND ACT MESSAGE Message ID: 0005324 Date Message Issued: 24/01/2021 Issued for Tilley Swamp near Tilley Swamp Conservation park in the Upper So...

by Caroline Schelle and Bella Fowler 25th Jan 2021 5:39 AM A man has been arrested after driving at high speed near the scene of a bushfire in South Australia. Police will allege a patrol spotted a vehicle "speeding away" from a fire that had recently started in Clarendon on Piggott Range Road just after 6pm on Sunday. Detectives are investigating if there are any possible links between this fire and others in the area. Police a...

Temperatures in Melbourne, Hobart, Canberra and Sydney will soar into the mid to high 30s on Monday.

Charlie Dalin on Apivia retakes the lead in the Vendée Globe © Charlie Dalin / Apivia #VG2020 The Doldrums did not give up the Vendée Globe leaders as easily as was initially predicted but first placed Charlie Dalin (Apivia) appears to have skirted round the worst of a dynamic cloud system and emerged this afternoon with his margin intact. Dalins more easterly position and his timing seems to have kept him away from a nasty zone of cloud and light winds which slowed Germanys ...