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She sent shivers down the UK’s spine with her version of ‘The Power of Love’ and set the charts a light with her single ‘Please don’t say you love me’, and now Gabrielle Aplin is set to get the people of Exeter singing and dancing as she performs at the Great Hall on Monday 18th November.

Gabrielle has seen continuous success since she took part in that famous John Lewis advert.

The ‘Home’ singer is performing in Exeter as part of her extensive UK headline tour. As well as her tour plans, a fourth single has recently been released from her No.2 charting debut album ‘English...

The Met Office’s long range forecast has said that the chances of snow will increase from the last week of November as we begin to see more wintry conditions in the run up to Christmas.

Although the prediction comes from the long range forecast, it could be an early indication of snowfall in the coming months.

On average, the UK gets 33 days of snow fall or sleet a year Most of this is snow falling on higher ground where temperatures are lower.

UK Snow Facts • On 25 September 1895 snow was reported to have fallen at London and Wallington in Surrey making it the...

Exeter, Mid and East Devon’s commercial radio station 107.3FM Radio Exe is joining a coalition of radio groups to protest about the government’s plans to enforce a switchover from FM to DAB digital radio for the majority of radio stations in the UK. Unlike TV switchover, radio switchover does not form part of an internationally coordinated programme and will not unlock a taxpayer dividend from the sale of released spectrum. Fourteen years after the consumer launch of DAB, just 15% of local radio listening is currently to DAB digital radio – even though 90% of the population listen to radio...

A 19-year-old man from Exeter has died in a car crash in Wiltshire.

The man, who has not been named, was a passenger in a car which hit the curb and overturned before colliding with a tree at around 18:30 yesterday evening (Monday 11 November).

The driver, a man from the Peterborough area, was taken to Salisbury District Hospital with serious head injuries.

The 19 year-old died at the scene just outside of Tidworth

Wiltshire Police closed the road to investigate and more details are expected once the families have been informed.

Anyone with any...