Missolonghi

The Acheloos River diversion project, which has long divided public opinion and policymakers, will once again be arbitrated by the Council of State, Greece's highest administrative court.

The city's cannons sounded 37 times in Messolonghi on the day that Lord Byron breathed his last, one for each year of his short life.

The sixth Messolonghi by Locals Festival will take place in the "Sacred Town" between August 30 and September 1. The festival features art exhibitions, dance and cooking lessons, as well as archaeological tours, traditional Greek music nights, and boat trips on the historic town's stunning lagoons. For more information, visit messolonghibylocals.com.

The 11-year-old boy, who had been injured in a car accident while riding his bike in Lesini, Aetolia-Acarnania, in early August, had suffered severe traumatic brain injuries.

Two men in their early 20s have been killed in road crash in the west of the country when the car they were travelling in left the road and crashed into a tree.

The fatal accident occurred on the provincial road between Stamna and Aitoliko in Aetolia-Acarnania.

"Britain and Greece have a co-ownership of Byron; in Britain as a foremost poet and in Greece as someone associated with Greek liberation," says Lord Lytton, a fourth-generation descendant of Lord Byron, in a special edition of Kathimerini.

Defence Minister Nikos Dendias has attended the opening of a two-day festival at Trinity College Cambridge in England to mark with the bicentenary of Lord Byron's death on 19 April 1824, in Messolongi, Greece.

The body of a 31-year-old man missing since early January was discovered in a muddy area near Kampos Evinochoriou in Messolongi, western Greece on Monday. 

The victim's clothes matched those he wore on the day of his disappearance. Additionally, according to information from Kathimerini, the body was not buried but was found in a ditch with multiple shotgun wounds.

Primary sources hold that had he not died prematurely in Messolongi almost 200 years ago, Lord Byron would have been offered the throne of Greece and ruled the newly established kingdom as its first monarch. It is quite possible that Lord Byron was the King George I that Greece never had.

Seeking to share their culture and history, a group of Messolonghi locals have created an itinerary of routes around the historic western Greek town and other initiatives.