Serious road collision causes tailbacks on A38 at Plymouth

Update: The A38 eastbound was closed at 4.50pm for approximately 30 minutes.

An elderly gentleman is in hospital with what is described as a serious neck injury.

The collision occured just before the Crownhill turnoff, so traffic is now flowing okay around the Manadon roundabout.

Earlier: Police and emergency services are currently at the scene of a serious road collision on the A38 at Plymouth.

An HGV and a Rover car were in collision on the eastbound carriageway just before Manadon junction around 1.50pm today (9th January).

An elderly man, the driver of...

Brahms - Ein Deutsches Requiem

Event Date: 
16/03/2013 - 7:30am
Venue: 
Exeter Cathedral

Brahms – Ein deutsches Requiem Exeter Philharmonic Choir with The Sinfonietta Directed by Andrew Millington Saturday 16 March 2013 Exeter Cathedral: 7.30 pm

When Brahms wrote his German Requiem, critics considered it the fulfilment of Schumann's prophecy that Brahms was a genius. The music and spiritual themes of Brahms' Ein deutsches Requiem make it one of the most beloved pieces in the choral repertoire. The work sets the mass in German for soprano, baritone, choir and orchestra. Exeter Philharmonic Choir are very excited about performing the work again.

Concert...

Night-time closures planned on A30 westbound

Overnight closures are planned on the A30 westbound from Daisymount Junction to the junction of the A30/C832 near M5 Junction 29 later this month.

The closures will be over five consecutive nights from Monday 21 to Friday 25 January from 8pm to 6am to enable overhead gantry signs to be replaced over the westbound A30.

During the closure of the A30 westbound, the A30 Daisymount Junction westbound on-slip will also be closed as well as the Airport Junction westbound on-slip.

Diversions will also be in place. A30 westbound traffic will be diverted from Daisymount...

RMT announce rise in membership over last year

Rail, maritime and transport union RMT announced today that the organisation has continued to increase its membership in the past twelve months in the teeth of the most savage attacks on jobs and working conditions for a generation.

Membership figures released by the union today show that RMT has put on a net gain of 1,456 members through 2012, taking the total to 77,549 – an annual growth of nearly 2% in the most challenging circumstances.

The union has increased its membership year-on-year from the 59,277 total when General Secretary Bob Crow was elected in 2002.

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Double celebration for rapidly improving Devon primary

Staff and pupils at a Newton Abbot primary are beginning the New Year with a double celebration after education inspectors judged that every aspect of school life was good or better.

St Joseph’s Catholic Primary was judged satisfactory by education inspectors in 2009. But now every aspect of life at the 120-pupil school is good or better. That improvement has come at a time when school inspectors have been getting tougher with their judgements and they say St Joseph’s is set to get even better.

The school is also celebrating a new partnership with St John the Baptist...

NICE guidance supports new device for healing bones

NICE has today (9th January), published new medical technology guidance supporting the use of a device to heal fractured bones.

The NICE guidance advises that the EXOGEN ultrasound bone healing system benefits patients and the NHS when used for treating long bone fractures with non-union (bone fractures that have failed to heal after 9 months). However, the case for adopting EXOGEN routinely for long bone fractures with delayed healing, that is, fractures which do not show radiological evidence of healing after 3 months, wasn't supported because of uncertainties in the evidence....

Police concerned for missing teenager from Ivybridge

Police are concerned for the welfare of 18-year-old man Jamie Grewal, who has gone missing from the Ivybridge area.

He was last seen last on Friday afternoon, 4th January, after having a drink with friends after work in the Abbey Inn pub at Buckfastleigh during lunchtime. He was then dropped off in Ivybridge around 1.30pm to 2pm.

He has not been seen or heard from since that time.

Jamie is described as five feet five inches tall, of very slim build with dark brown, short hair.

He was last seen wearing a turquoise blue jacket with jeans and trainers.

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Where Are We Now? The Return of David Bowie

Exeter-based music aficionado Matthew Vizard reports on the re-emergence of the legend that is David Bowie, with his first album release in 10 years.

Yesterday, among the BBC 6 Music presenters anticipating the records that would rule their worlds in 2013, was DJ, writer and avowed Bowie fan, Mark Radcliffe. 'He's been so mysterious and so uncharacteristically quiet, I would love just to hear a little murmur from David Bowie'. He didn't have to wait long, because at 5am this very morning, January 8th 2013 - David Bowie's 66th birthday - pop's most celebrated chameleon released his...

Cheltenham Festival Preview Evening at Exeter Racecourse

Join the stars from the racing world at Exeter Racecourse’s Cheltenham Festival Preview Evening on Thursday, 21st February.

Champion trainer Paul Nicholls, Phillip Hobbs, David Pipe and the Racing Post’s Andrew King will be on the panel to answer all your questions about their runners at the Festival of jump racing and to give their opinions their rivals runners.

Channel 4 Racing’s Tanya Stevenson will host the evening and Paddy Power will advice on market movers, bankers and blow outs.

Join Exeter Racecourse from 6pm, with the panel starting at 7pm, on 21st...

Exeter’s newest primary school opens today

The first children started at Exeter’s newest primary school today (Tuesday 8th January).

During the holidays, Walter Daw has had a complete makeover and a change of character and will reopen as the Woodwater Academy.

It will be part of the Children First Federation under executive headteacher Gary Chown.

And it will also be a member of the Devon Primary Academies Trust which is the biggest primary academy trust in the country.

The Trust educates 2,300 pupils across Devon with 120 teaching staff and 280 support staff.

“This is an exciting new start...

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