Update 2.30pm: On the M5 southbound in Somerset there are currently long delays between junctions J21 and J23 due to an earlier incident. All lanes are now open.
Lane 3 remains closed northbound for emergency repairs after the incident.
Update 12.30pm: The M5 Southbound carriageway remains closed between J22 and J23 following earlier collisions, causing delays of approximately two hours between junctions J21 and J22. The road is expected to re-open from 2.30pm. Northbound between J22 and J23, only one lane remains closed, however taffic is still very slow-moving.
A group of Exeter University students are taking part in the prestigious Npower’s future leaders challenge, which sees those teams involved setting up a project to promote sustainable living in their local community.
The successful team will win a trip to the Brazilian Amazon, spending 10 days helping tribes people set up solar panels. As part of the Npower’s future leaders challenge students Sophie Walton, Flo Taylor, Catriona Patterson, and Harriet Miller have created the Exeter Style Cycle, an online shopping clothes swapping forum.
Researchers from the University of Cambridge have discovered a novel genetic cause of severe obesity which, although relatively rare, demonstrates for the first time that genes can reduce basal metabolic rate - how the body burns calories.
Previous studies (performed by David Powell and colleagues at Lexicon Pharmaceuticals in Texas) demonstrated that when the gene KSR2 (Kinase Suppressor of Ras 2) was deleted in mice, the animals became severely obese. As a result of this research, Professor Sadaf Farooqi from the University of Cambridge's Wellcome Trust-MRC Institute of Metabolic...
Share in the wonder that objects and their stories can arouse. Inspired by the early Cabinets of Curiosity, local people display their own collections of objects to represent their lives, past and present, and their aspirations for the future.
In creating these displays, Exeter’s Youth Inclusion and Support Team, young people, parents, carers and others discovered how objects and their stories can help connect us to other times and places, understand how our world became the place it is and help us find our own place in it.
What objects would tell the story of your life?...
Creative Cow present William Shakespeare's epic and delightful comedy. A rollicking tale of marraige, fidelity, trickery and more.
The puffed up and degenerate Sir John Falstaff, a Knight of the Garter, is seized with the outrageous idea that to seduce two of Windsor’s wealthy merry wives will prove his virility and give him access to their money, but with female cunning and a devilish plot involving their husbands, Falstaff is repeatedly tricked by the women.
Evening performances at 7.30pm, matinee on 2 November at 2pm.
Community groups in Devon and Cornwall have got just over a week to apply for a share in a £200,000 cashpot. Applications for the first round of the small grants scheme, which aims to help small community groups which work to reduce crime and make people feel safer, must be submitted by 31 October. Already over 60 applications have been received for grants up to £5,000 for projects. In my Police and Crime Plan I promised to find new ways to help organisations to help themselves and I am encouraged by the early response from groups looking for grass-roots funding, I urge anyone who is...
A Hospiscare hairdresser is set to complete a 450km cycle challenge in blistering temperatures next month after raising more than £4k for the local charity.
58 year-old Lesley Weeks has spent the past year fundraising to take part in the challenge which takes place across Vietnam and Cambodia next month.
Lesley has worked for Hospiscare for more than two decades and this will be the fourth adventure she has embarked upon for the charity.
Exmouth based Lesley has transformed her life through her charitable expeditions going from a ‘couch potato’ to a fit and active...
Special celebration of the sons and daughters of our foster carers.
The Five Rivers Fostering Service is joining Fostering Network’s Campaign... Sons & Daughters: Celebrating the Foster Family to acknowledge the phenomenal contribution which the children of foster carers make to fostering. Fostering relies on the support, patience and co-operation of everyone in the household, fostering will present challenges but with those challenges come many rewards and you and your family will benefit from enabling your children to learn how to share, how to empathise and gain a greater...
Selin Yigitbasi has been tipped as a name to watch after being named Student of the Year in the Institute of Directors 2013 Directors Awards. The award recognises promising students who have demonstrated qualities that can lead them to becoming the directors of the future.
Selin, aged 21, studied BA Business and Management at the University of Exeter, with proficiency in French. Since 2011, she has undertaken a variety of internships in companies such as Coca-Cola Company, Tuborg Brewing and Malting Ltd, Brand Finance, and blur Group. She also worked as a freelance designer for...
Get noticed and stay safe is the message to road users as the clocks go back on Sunday (27 October).
As British Summer Time comes to an end and winter nights draw in, Devon County Council is reminding pedestrians, cyclists, motorcyclists and horse riders to wear reflective and fluorescent clothing to ensure they can be seen on the county’s roads.
Car drivers are also being urged to be cautious and look out for all other road users, especially at night and also in mist, rain and fog, when visibility is limited.
Interactive road signs around Devon will display...
