HERE are a few stories featured on our sister paper websites from across the country.

The St Albans and Harpenden Review reports on how an eagle-eyed walker stumbled upon a £50,000 fortune in London Colney. Hertfordshire Constabulary are appealing to trace the owners of a collection of gold and silver bullion, coins and dabloons which were found under a hedge. Detectives believe the collection may have been stolen in a burglary or robbery. Read the full story here.

A pair of teenagers who started a fire in a derelict house, causing the death of a homeless squatter, have had their sentences cut at the Court of Appeal. But senior judges dismissed a bid by the 17-year-old girl and 16-year-old boy, who torched a duvet in the former Sea Cadet centre in Waddon in 2013, to have their manslaughter convictions quashed. Sylwester Mendzelewski, 35, was sleeping in the basement of the house when the fire took hold. He died of smoke inhalation after the fire spread. You can read the full story on the Croydon Guardian here.

The Falmouth Packet reports how the Eden Project has unveiled plans for a £6 million hotel to provide 115-bedroom accommodation on its site at Bodelva near St Austell in Cornwall. Plans have been submitted to Cornwall Council for the new building which has been "designed to blend into the countryside and have high standards of accessibility, energy-efficiency and sustainability". If the application is successful, Eden says that the new development would create around 25 new jobs. Read the full story here.

And the second stage of a major flood-prevention and protection scheme will begin on the Somerset Levels next month. The Somerset County Council-led works are due to start on April 7 and will see four new culverts installed under the A372 at Beer Wall, to the east of Langacre Rhyne, which runs alongside the River Sowy. At times of flood the culverts will allow water to pass beneath the road rather than over it. You can read the full on the Bridgwater Mercury here.