A major search has taken place in Torquay after the Coastguard were told that two people had fallen from cliffs.
Brixham Coastguard received a call just after 2pm on Saturday 12 July 2014 from South West Ambulance Service who had been made aware that people were in trouble on cliffs at Meadfoot beach.
With little information to go on, Brixham Coastguard sent the Torbay, Berry Head and Teignmouth Coastguard Rescue Teams to the scene, along with both Torbay RNLI lifeboats, Torbay Council patrol boat, police helicopter, Devon Air Ambulance, as well as police and ambulance...
Mathematical algorithms used to control everyday household items such as washing machines could hold the key to winning the fight for conservation, a new study has claimed.
As part of an EPSRC research project, a team of UK scientists and mathematicians, including those from the University of Exeter, have shown how techniques commonly used in control engineering, could be replicated in the natural world to help restock declining populations.
The innovative new study suggests ‘integral control’ - in essence a built-in feedback control mechanism to maintain a constant – could...
Members of St John's Chambers' Wills, Trusts and Probate team will be speaking at Bristol Law Society's Private Client Conference at Clarke Willmott, alongside HHJ McCahill QC.
The conference will be chaired by Anthony Fairweather of Clarke Willmott, and will present a wide range of speakers covering topical issues from legal and tax updates, through current planning ideas, and how to work with families in resolving their issues.
Topics include:
The Bristol Chancery Court HHJ McCahill QC
Wills and capacity update Alex Troup, Barrister, St John’s
Ballet fans and new audiences are in for a treat when one of Tchaikovsky's world famous classical ballets The Nutcracker comes to Exeter.
The enchanting tale of The Nutcracker is one of the best-loved ballets and centres around Clara and her nutcracker doll, which magically transforms into a princely soldier.
Their adventures see the Prince and Clara combat the Mouse King and join the Sugar Plum Fairy for a wonderful trip to a Kingdom made entirely of sweets.
The Nutcracker is being brought to Exeter by the fantastic Vienna Festival Ballet company, which boasts...
East Devon District Council is among dozens of local authorities around the country gathering data that will bring the biggest change to voter registration in a generation.
The next step towards what the Government are calling “a voting system fit for the 21st century” starts this month as Electoral Registration Officers (EROs) begin to contact voters across the UK about changes to the electoral registration system.
Individual Electoral Registration (IER) will give people more control and ownership over the process and increase the accuracy of the register – with the new...
Environment Agency enforcement teams carried out more than 13,000 rod licence checks across England in May.
Of the anglers checked for a valid licence, 965 were fishing illegally and could face a court appearance and a substantial fine. A recent penalty was more than £800, when an annual licence costs just £27.
May falls within the coarse fishing ‘close season’ – which runs from 15 March to 15 June – when coarse angling is suspended on rivers and a few canals and lakes in order to allow coarse fish to breed.
In one case an angler gave a false identity and nearly...
As the summer holiday trade begins in earnest, owners of furnished holiday lettings are invited to a seminar at Darts Farm in Topsham on Wednesday 16 July to hear some top tips from a panel of experts.
Topics at the seminar which is jointly hosted by chartered accountants Francis Clark and property agents Stags will include an update on topical tax issues for holiday lettings including capital allowances, relief for borrowing costs and a VAT update presented by former tax writer of the year John Endacott.
Other issues on the agenda include Social Media Insights for 2014,...
England's National Parks stand to benefit from improved mobile coverage in ways that respect their very sensitive environment, following a landmark agreement between National Parks England the Mobile Operators Association.
The agreement has attracted support and was launched by Government Ministers from DCMS, Defra and CLG.
The Accord was brokered between National Parks England and the Mobile Operators Association and aims to:
help communities living in National Parks to benefit from consistent high quality connectivity;
Exeter City Football Club marked the day of the World Cup Final (Sunday 13 July 2014) by holding a special international tournament. The Club once again celebrated diversity in the local community when its 10th annual summer 5 a-side tournament was held at the University of Exeter’s Streatham Sports Complex. The competition encourages participation from local black and minority ethnic teams and attracted players from many different parts of the world.
Sixteen teams battled it out for the One Game One Community trophy with Pegland United from Budleigh Salterton the worthy winners....
Summer is here and once again the call of the cuckoo has fallen silent across Dartmoor.
Because even though the cuckoo may be one of our most well-known birds, the adult birds only spend about 2 months of the year in this country. The rest of the time they are on their way to, or in their wintering grounds south of the Sahara.
For the past two springs Devon Birds (DB) has teamed up with Dartmoor National Park Authority (DNPA) to fund the satellite tagging of Dartmoor cuckoos to track their movements between Dartmoor and Africa.
