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Police are warning the public about a large-scale fraud, orchestrated by email, that makes death threats to recipients. The scam involves sending threatening emails to both individuals and companies advising them that someone close to them wants them dead and has provided details on how to kill the individual. The recipient is then told to provide their bank details in order to prevent any harm coming to them.

The scam appears to be at a national level, and the emails are very generic in nature, appearing to be sent from outside the UK. There have been five separate reported cases...

Victorious Exeter Chiefs will parade the LV= Cup through Exeter city centre on Saturday, 5 April, the City Council has announced.

Rob Baxter's all-conquering team, together with staff and officials from the club, will travel from St James Park on an open-top double-decker bus.

The bus, provided by Stagecoach, will leave St James Park at 2.30pm, travelling down Sidwell Street and into the High Street, before arriving at the Guildhall at 3pm for a Civic Reception hosted by the Lord Mayor of Exeter, Cllr Rachel Lyons.

Crowds are expected to line the route in a similar...

Today is the 10th anniversary of the popular local website, Exeter Memories. Conceived by David Cornforth, who had the idea that a website that accumulated memories of Exeter through the preceding decades, would be of interest for many, and would also become an important social record of Exeter through the last 100 years.

The first memory on the site was from John Moon, who started his memory with “I was one of hundreds of American Sailors shipped in to Exeter serve at the U.S. NAVAL SUPPLY Base, code named JOWL-93. My group arrived in September 1943 and were billeted for a short...

Firefighters are currently trying to remove a member of the public who is trapped inside their vehicle after a car accident.

Crews from Colyton and Seaton have been at the incident, at Old Stone Lodge, near Axmouth, since just after 4pm.

They were called to the incident after a report of a two vehicle road traffic collision where one vehicle had overturned, trapping the occupant. On arrival the fire crews found that one vehicle had left the road and gone into a field and the occupant was confirmed to be trapped.

Crews are at work making efforts to release the...