A contract worth over £600,000 has been awarded to complete a cycle path in Bury. The Woolfold Gap project will complete a missing link in the Kirklees Trail providing an off-road route from Greenmount, Tottington, Woolfold and Brandlesholme to Bury town centre. Much of the trail follows … [Read more...]
Flower powered cycle locks for primary schools
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July 22, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Twelve schools in Hammersmith and Fulham have a new way to lock up their bikes and grow plants at the same time. The schools, who work with sustainable transport charity Sustrans to encourage more children to cycle to school, received a ‘Plantlock’ each, to keep pupils bikes secure whilst … [Read more...]
Reach Lode Bridge makes its debut in the Fens
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June 9, 2010 By Leave a Comment
The Fens riverscape is dramatically changing with the latest addition of the new Reach Lode Bridge which has just been installed. The bridge is part of a new walking and cycling network from sustainable transport charity Sustrans who are working with the National Trust to create the Lodes … [Read more...]
Rob Brydon in steel
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May 26, 2010 By Leave a Comment
It has been a busy weekend for Rob Brydon - not only was he honoured at the Bafta Cymru ceremony with the Sian Phillips Award, but he also met a life-size steel version of himself as he paid a visit to a newly installed artwork near his hometown of Port Talbot in South Wales. Rob Brydon was … [Read more...]
Burton, Brydon & Wagstaff in steel
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February 21, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Three local heroes are to be immortalised in a piece of art which will be placed along a new pedestrian and cycle route in the Afan Valley. Life-size images of the late great Richard Burton CBE, comedian and actor Rob Brydon and local man Dick Wagstaff, will be created in a weathering steel that … [Read more...]
