Police closed a section of the M5 for two hours today causing long delays for motorists.
The road was closed in both directions, southbound between J26-27 and at J27 northbound due to concern for a woman on the motorway bridge, and motorists’ safety.
The road was re-opened at 1.30pm and police reported the woman to be safe and well.
Avon & Somerset Police are warning of delays due to backlogs of traffic clearing and have advised anyone planning to travel towards Wellington from the north or south to delay their journey.
After the success of last week’s A-Level results, The Maynard School is thrilled to have posted yet another outstanding set of results at GCSE level.
Students at the South West’s leading independent school for girls have outperformed the national average to an extraordinary extent with 66% achieving A* and A grades and 91% gaining A*, A and B grades across a broad spectrum of subjects.
By contrast, nationally the GCSE results show the sharpest decline on record and the national average for A* - C grades is only 66.9%, proving just how well the Maynard girls have done....
Police searches will continue in Exminster in connection with yesterday’s arrest of a 30-year-old man in Somerset on suspicion of terrorism offences.
A man was arrested at 12.20pm by officers from the Metropolitan Police Service’s Counter Terrorism Command (SO15), supported by colleagues from Avon and Somerset and Devon and Cornwall Police, on suspicion of being involved in the preparation for acts of terrorism under section 5 of the Terrorism Act.
Searches are now being conducted by the Metropolitan Police Service’s Counter Terrorism Command (SO15) and local uniform...
The personal diary of Sergeant James Littler is being published online 100 years after he survived the fierce fighting at the Battle of the Somme on the National Army Museum’s commemorative website First World War in Focus.
Littler arrived on the Somme on 29 July 1916. Allied attacks had been launched on 1 July and continued into mid-November, but with German counter attacks the offensive eventually included 12 separate battles. These battles often went on for weeks at a time and Littler recorded how the men awaited their fate in a ‘hell-hole’.
Aquamarine Media are providing the complete set up and management of monthly paid search marketing campaigns for global charity, Microloan Foundation.
As part of the Google Ad Grants scheme, the Teignmouth-based agency will be running multiple PPC campaigns for the charity, worth $10,000 in advertising a month, completely free of charge.
The campaigns, which will be monitored closely by a team of experts, will drive quality traffic to Microloan Foundation’s website and significantly increase the awareness of the life changing work they do.
Blundell’s School announces another excellent set of GCSE results with more than a quarter of grades at A*, a position that equals the school’s best ever results of last year.
From a large and able group of pupils, once again more than half the grades were at A*/A Level and, in an improvement on last year, more than a third of the year group ( 31 pupils) gained at least 8 A* and A grades.
The pass rate was again well over 95%. The following pupils gained 9 or more A*s: Imogen Cotton, Alfie Gardner, Megan Grant, Julia Huntingford, Will McIntyre, Bonnie Price, Kieran Smith...
The refugee crisis has become huge as of late: Around the world there have been many different situations that have forced the local populous to pick up and move, leaving most of their belongings and their former life at home.
These people range from different countries across the globe, most of which are war torn, and those who have become dispossessed include men, women and children.
This has been met with support for those placed in the harshest of situations. Charities have responded to this in Aid of these people, offering funding through fundraisers in order to fund...
Bridge Road in Exeter will be closed from 10pm tonight (Thursday) until 5am tomorrow morning (Friday 26 August) while changes are made to the traffic layout.
From Friday morning, the two traffic lanes will be running on the east (downstream) side of Bridge Road between Glasshouse Lane and the South West Water Treatment Works access road, to enable work to start on the upstream area. Pedestrians and cyclists will be able to use a safe new route formed behind barriers on what is currently road surface.
If you are approaching the area for the first time after this change,...
Northern Devon Healthcare NHS Trust (NDHT) recently held its second annual symposium to highlight research and development successes across the Trust.
People from all over the South West attended the event which was held at the Barnstaple Hotel. The day included a number of speakers who highlighted some of the varied research and development work being done across the region. Topics included older women: the hidden victims of abuse, being a clinical investigator in the South West, and how to embed patient and public involvement and engagement research in an acute hospital setting...
The RSPCA has urged pet owners and farmers to keep their animals cool in the summer heat as temperatures rocket to 30C in some parts of England and Wales this week.
The animal welfare charity is issuing advice after a surge in calls relating to animals and heat exposure last month. The charity’s 24-hour emergency line received 1,606 calls in July - that’s two every hour or more than 50 a day - from concerned members of the public reporting dogs shut in hot vehicles, farm animals out in the heat, and horses without shade.
There have been more than 5,700 calls so far this...
