Devon and Cornwall Police Authority chairman, Mike Bull, has been accused of breaching data protection laws by emailing some staff about his preferred police commissioner candidate in the forthcoming elections.
Exeter's Labour MP, Ben Bradshaw, said he has reported Mr Bull to the Information Commissioner after a police officer from his constituency showed him one of two emails sent by Mr Bull.
The MP said: "Clearly the use of and access to the police database to electioneer is potentially a legal matter. That's why it's very important that the Information...
Dr Annette Plaut from the University of Exeter is swapping a lab coat for legislation as she visits Exeter MP Ben Bradshaw at the House of Commons. The visit is for a ‘Week in Westminster’, which commenced on Monday 29 October as part of a unique ‘pairing’ scheme run by the Royal Society – the UK’s national academy of science.
During her visit, Dr Plaut is shadowing the MP to learn about his work, as well as attending a House of Commons Science and Technology Committee meeting and Prime Minister’s Question Time, and meeting Professor Sir John Beddington, Government Chief...
Exe Broadcasting, the Exmouth-based company that controls Radio Exe, has bought out the radio station’s minority shareholder to bring it into complete local ownership.
Almost five years on from turning ailing Exeter FM into a successful new station, Radio Exe, Exe Broadcasting’s acquisition of London-based Devon Radio Ltd’s 40 per cent stake means that for the first time in more than 20 years when Lantern FM in Barnstaple was acquired by Orchard Media (and before that when DevonAir Radio was acquired by Capital Radio in 1987), Devon has a commercial radio station wholly owned by...
Exeter’s MP Ben Bradshaw has said that Devon County Council cuts are ' very short-sighted' and will lead "to more social problems down the line" today at a meeting with users of the Westside Youth centre on Merrivale Road
Over 20 young people, many of whom missed school to attend, spoke with Mr Bradshaw and Devon County Councillor Roy Hill to voice their concerns on the potential cuts to Devon’s Youth Service.
Young people who use the youth centre spoke of their anger at the extent of the proposed cuts to the service and expressed concerns that any communtiy-run alterntive...
Update: Alexandra Harris and Kieron Bryan have been granted bail- set at 2m rubles each
Before the judge Kieron Bryan said: "To be accused of hooliganism for doing my job as a reporter is the same as suggesting that every journalist who works in a warzone is a soldier or that the court reporter here today is somehow responsible for the outcome."
Also bailed was the Arctic Sunrise captain Peter Willcox.
Anthony parrett case is also currently being heard.
Greenpeace has posted bail for the 9 activists processed yesterday but doesn't expect their release until...
