Work has begun to repair a 19th Century wooden pier. The 689ft (210m) pier at Sharpness Docks, Gloucestershire, opened in 1874 with the docks and some of its 36ft (11m) wooden legs are original.

Councillors have turned down plans for 300 new homes, a hotel and leisure attractions at a historic site. The multi-million pound development planned for Sharpness Docks also included 100 lodges and a ...

An annual midsummer sea shanty festival is set to be held on the edge of the River Severn near historic and a working docks. It is the second year of the festival which is already promised to be ...

A set of 70 tonne gates have been floated into Sharpness Docks, Berkeley, to replace those that have held back the sea for the past 52 years. The massive steel gates arrived by barge from Deest, in ...

A "huge amount" of silt due to the summer dry weather means a canal lock will remain closed to protect a city's historic docks until November while they are dredged. The Canal and River Trust said ...

A set of new steel gates, each weighing 74 tonnes and measuring 11m (36ft) high, have been craned into place at Sharpness Docks in Gloucestershire. The gates, which form part of the sea defence ...

From our Gloucestershire Correspondent Ken Goodwin: "The whole journey to Sharpness docks took several hours, crawling along at a snail's pace. At the docks the boilers were loaded onto a giant barge, ...

Families fear they will be forced to leave their homes after one of the UK's biggest charities put an entire street of 24 homes up for sale for £1.6million. Dock Road in Sharpness, Gloucestershire, is ...

A grieving father has killed himself and his Down's syndrome son by driving his car into a harbour - just days after the death of his wife. The family dog also drowned in the tragic incident at ...

The 689ft (210m) pier at Sharpness Docks, Gloucestershire, opened in 1874 with the docks and some of its 36ft (11m) wooden legs are original. Engineers from the Canal and River Trust have brought in a ...