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Produced by Exeter City Council, Unexpected triumphantly returns in August with a fabulous three day, family-friendly, Festival programme (29-31 Aug), taking performance and visual art out of venues and into exciting, unexpected, locations across the city.

With only one ticketed event throughout the three Festival days, the rest entirely free, Exeter will come alive with street theatre, circus shows, performances and workshops, that will truly amaze and delight. Building on the Festival's substantial 2013 launch, Exeter City Council, has again for the second Festival year running,...

UPDATE 4 August:

Missing teeanger Michaela Paige Cheesman was located by police in St Agnes, Cornwall yesterday (3 August).

Police would like to thank the public for their assistance.

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Police are appealing for help to trace a missing 17-year-old female from Gloucestershire who may be in Devon or Cornwall.

Michaela Paige Cheesman was reported missing from her home in Cirencester, Gloucestershire, at around 6.30am yesterday (1 August) and there is concern for her safety.

It is believed she left sometime during the night....

Hundreds of postcards have been written to those affected by the outbreak of the First World War from people today, as a form of memorial and recognition.

These letters are not only to the soldiers, medics and the war horses that served, but also to the millions of civilians who remained at home and contributed to the war effort.

As part of a University of Exeter engagement project, The Long Goodbye: a conversation across a century has encouraged members of the public and students to write postcards to those living at the time of the Great War. The aim is to address the...

Devon broiler farmer Tamsin French has dresses s as a chicken called ‘Rosa’, and today embarked on a 39-day tour of the European Union. The 39Days4Rosa tour will take in 21 EU Member States and finish at the European Parliament in Brussels on September 8th.

‘Rosa’ is calling for clear, mandatory method of production labelling of poultrymeat. She wants consumers to be able to answer the simple question, 'How was this chicken kept?' Her tour can be followed on Twitter (@39Days4Rosa, #39Days4Rosa) and Facebook (39Days4Rosa). Thirty-nine days is the average lifespan of an intensively...