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A chance passing of a buoy on the ‘wrong’ side saved the life of a stranded swimmer, Exeter City Council has revealed.

The fortunate swimmer – who was suffering the early stages of hypothermia - was plucked out of the Exe Estuary one mile from shore by the City Council’s Harbour Patrol team. The rescue happened last Wednesday.

The team would have missed the swimmer, who was clinging onto the base of the navigational marker, if they had kept the buoy on the port (left-hand) side of the boat. Instead, skipper and Harbourmaster Grahame Forshaw decided to pass with the buoy...

On 1 September 2020, Professor Lisa Roberts becomes the new Vice-Chancellor and Chief Executive at the University of Exeter. She takes over from Professor Sir Steve Smith who is retiring from the role and who has held the post since October 2002.

Sir Steve is amongst the longest-serving and most successful Vice-Chancellors of his generation and he has taken the University from strength to strength over a period of nearly 20 years. During his leadership the University secured Russell Group status and is now consistently ranked as one of the top 15 universities in the UK and the...

Linguist and philosopher, Noam Chomsky, will speak to Professor Robert Lamb from the University of Exeter, in a free online event.

Often called the ‘founder of modern linguistics’, Chomsky will answer audience questions, focusing on the topic of free speech, live from Tucson in the United States on 11 September.

He will be in conversation with Robert Lamb , Professor of Political Philosophy at the University of Exeter and Director of the Institute for Cultural Enquiry.

In July this year, Chomsky put his name to the ‘Letter on Justice and Open Debate’, which was...

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