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Issue 412 is out: Thursday 16 October (sample)

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Issue 412, Thursday 16 October (sample)

The bridge vote: what the valley decides on 4 November

Repair the 1931 bridge or build a new one downstream? We costed both plans, walked both routes and asked the people who cross it every day.

By Maya Lindqvist, local affairs (sample)

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Cover: the bridge vote

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Letters

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News in brief

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The bridge vote

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Advertising

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Market hall reopens

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Shop talk

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Advertising

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Autumn book festival

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Reviews

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What's on

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The week ahead

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Issue 412: sixteen pages, on sale Thursday (sample).

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Four desks, one valley

Every story in the magazine comes from one of four desks. The colour on each desk is the colour of its pages in the issue.

Local

Council, schools, roads, planning and the people of Springfield and the valley villages.

Pages 3 to 6 this week

Desk editor: Maya Lindqvist (sample)

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Business

Shops opening and closing, jobs, the market hall, farming and the firms that employ the valley.

Pages 8 to 10 this week

Desk editor: Tom Achebe (sample)

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Culture

Books, music, theatre, food and drink: reviews and interviews, written by people who live here.

Pages 12 to 14 this week

Desk editor: Ines Kowal (sample)

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What's on

Seven days of listings: gigs, markets, talks, sport and family days, with times and prices.

Pages 15 and 16 this week

Desk editor: Ruth Mensah (sample)

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Two bridges over a calm river in autumn, the town on the far bank

Two bridges, one vote

The old Wend bridge carries 9,000 crossings a day and needs $4.2 million of repairs. A new bridge 400 metres downstream would cost $7.8 million and close the old one to cars (sample figures).

We walked both routes with a wheelchair user, a delivery driver and the head of the primary school on the far bank. This week’s issue sets out what each plan means for them, what the council has promised and what it has not.

By Maya Lindqvist. Photographs by Sam Okoro (sample). In print on pages 4 to 6.

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What's on this week

Seven days in the valley, chosen by the listings desk. Send your event in by Monday noon for the next issue.

Fri 17 Oct

Late opening at the market hall

Market Street, 17:00 to 21:00

Free

Sat 18 Oct

Autumn book festival: opening talk

Town library, 11:00

$6

Sat 18 Oct

The Riverbend Players: an evening of folk

Corn Exchange, 19:30

$14

Sun 19 Oct

Repair café: bring a broken lamp

St Anne’s hall, 10:00 to 13:00

Free

Wed 22 Oct

Public meeting on the bridge plans

Town hall, 18:30

Free

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Issue 412 is out: Thursday 16 October (sample)

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