The first big battery signed up to help deliver a “baseload renewables” contract – in this case BHP’s giant Olympic Dam mine in South Australia – has now started full operations. Neoen ...

Previously a hub for mining and shipbuilding, the town has suffered significantly since those industries collapsed - the shipyard closed in the 1960s, while the final put closed in 1986.

Blyth was once home to the North East's biggest shipyard, proud to have built the Royal Navy's first seaplane carrier, Ark Royal, in 1914. But when the yard closed in 1966, 1,400 jobs went with it.