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Becky Tydd, Cat Moore, Ravi Poorun and Sean Scofield, all running the London Marathon 2024 for FORCE Cancer Charity

Fab four tackle London Marathon for FORCE

FORCE will have four runners on the start line for this year’s London Marathon on Sunday (April 21).

Cat Moore, Becky Tydd, Ravi Poorun and Sean Schofield will be pounding the streets of the capital, all determined to raise as much money as they can for FORCE from this iconic event.

July 2023 was a life-changing period for Becky Tydd . She secured a ballot place for London after years of trying in the same month that she received a diagnosis of cancer.

She explains: “I was diagnosed with malignant melanoma, skin cancer in two main primary sites, which had spread...

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Reading Between the Lines, with Exeter, Mid & East Devon Samaritans

Samaritans volunteers in Exeter, Mid and East Devon have launched a new campaign called We Listen, letting people know they can call Samaritans whatever they’re going through.

Posters in local railway stations really do allow the public to read between the lines because they contain hidden messages where people claiming to be fine are not OK at all.

One says ‘I’m alright with being single I guess. It’s not ideal for the kids, but they seem to be coping’ - the real message being, ‘I’m not coping’.

Supported by Network Rail, the campaign aims to show that while it’s...

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Refugee stories set to come alive at TEDxExeter

Authored by Mary Youlden
Posted: Mon, 02/29/2016 - 11:36am

The reality of life for refugees fleeing the conflict in Syria will come vividly to life when award-winning photographer Giles Duley shows his pictures and tells the stories behind them at this year’s TEDxExeter.

Duley, who lost three limbs and nearly his life in 2011 when working in Afghanistan, is an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society. He started out as a fashion and music photographer photographing such nineties icons as Oasis, The Prodigy and Pulp.

Disillusioned with celebrity culture, he discovered that he could use his craft to tell the stories of those...

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£150,000 to be won across ITV West Country West

The Big Lottery Fund, ITV and The National Lottery have teamed up to give the UK public the chance to decide how £3 million of Big Lottery funding will make a difference in their local area.

Five projects have been shortlisted in ITV West Country West to take part in a TV competition where the three with the most public votes will receive grants of up to £50,000. Voting opens today at 9am thepeoplesprojects.org.uk.

The Big Lottery Fund wanted to celebrate some of the incredible projects it has funded and has worked with ITV to shortlist 95 projects across the UK. Projects...

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Work in retail? Why your job could be at risk

One of the UK's largest employers, the retail sector, is facing the loss of up to 900,000 jobs and the closure of thousands of shops in the next decade.

Of the 270,000 shops in the UK today, up to 74,000 could shut, a report claims.

Sir Charlie Mayfield, chairman of the British Retail Consortium (BRC) and head of the John Lewis Partnership, said that although retailers supported the introduction of higher pay, there would be an effect on employment.

The retail sector employs three million people - a number that could fall by nearly a third in less than a decade....

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Are we heading for a White Easter?

Authored by News Desk
Posted: Mon, 02/29/2016 - 8:23am

If you think we've escaped a proper winter so far in 2016, you could be in for a shock.

The Met Office is warning that we might be in for a White Easter.

It's all due to what is called a sudden stratospheric warming event bringing snow, ice and temperatures as low as -14C.

The plunge - the same phenomenon that triggered the 2010 Big Freeze - is expected to result in colder-than-average weather across the UK in late March.

The Met Office March to May forecast said: "The greatest risk of cold weather impacts is in late March and early April, due to the...

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Fire crews called after teenage girl gets finger stuck in bowling ball

Authored by News Desk
Posted: Mon, 02/29/2016 - 8:04am

A fire crew was dispatched to Exmouth Hospital for an unusual rescue operation.

One appliance from Exmouth was mobilised to reports of a person with a bowling ball stuck on their finger.

On arrival crews discovered a fourteen year old female with her finger stuck in a bowling ball.

Crews used small tools to release the finger from the ball.

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Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it’s kids’ ultimate dream car!

Authored by News Desk
Posted: Sun, 02/28/2016 - 9:11pm

A roaring, flying machine powered by magic and kitted out with a swimming pool and sweets machine is how kids in Exeter have described their ultimate dream car.

Although adults may long for a car with an inbuilt touchscreen navigation system, Bluetooth connectivity and all-wheel drive, when it comes to vehicles children are a much tougher crowd to please. A recent poll commissioned by the Bentley by Me campaign asked 1,000 children across the UK aged between 6 and 12 what their dream car would be like – and the results are out of this world.

In Exeter, 43.4 per cent of...

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Latest round of Community Impact Support Scheme funding opens

Authored by News Desk
Posted: Sun, 02/28/2016 - 2:24pm

Applications are being welcomed for the latest round of business support funding for local communities.

Community organisations, social enterprise and voluntary sector groups are being invited to apply for Community Impact Support Scheme (CISS) funding. Online expressions of interest can be made until Sunday 6 March at https://new.devon.gov.uk/communities/ciss .

Funding ranging from £10,000 to £50,000 is available through the scheme which is run by Devon County Council in partnership with district councils and with support from key stakeholders, including Dartington School...

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Firefighters have post-fire care for animals licked

Authored by Mary Youlden
Posted: Sun, 02/28/2016 - 12:14pm

Pets living in Honiton now have a better chance of surviving household fires – thanks to new oxygen masks for animals being carried on the town’s fire engines.

The funding for the set of specially-designed masks to Honiton has been provided by Honiton's Fortescue Lodge.

Honiton's Fortescue Lodge donated the money for a set of masks to Smokey Paws, the not-for-profit organisation trying to help family pets in the event of a fire. Honiton is the first fire station in Devon to receive the life-saving devices.

Watch Manager Wayne Broom said: “As a dog owner myself, I...

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Over 100 cannabis plants seized at Devon farm

Authored by News Desk
Posted: Sat, 02/27/2016 - 4:40pm

A Misuse of Drugs Act warrant was executed at a farm in the Chulmleigh area on Friday morning (26 February), leading to the seizure of a large amount of cannabis plants.

The warrant stemmed from community intelligence, and officers from Cullompton, Tiverton and Crediton neighbourhood teams along with the Force Support Group and CID

Sergeant Dave MacFadden said: “This is a wonderful result. We were acting directly on community intelligence and we have now seized over a 100 cannabis plants plus other paraphernalia.

"This is a strong one-team effort, and working...

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