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What locals love about peaceful Cullompton
Cullompton is probably best known to most of us as a road sign flashing by on the motorway, the last service station on the M5 before Exeter.But tucked behind the McDonald's and Costa sits a town of...
View ArticleWestcountry communities join together for the fifth Big Lunch
Thousands of people from across the Westcountry will sit down together tomorrow for lunch as part of a nationwide event dreamt up by the Eden Project.The Big Lunch, which is funded by the Big Lottery...
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Ice cream boss scoops a cool half century of shows
The head of an ice-cream dynasty which has traded in Cornwall since Victorian times is to clock up a half-century of appearances at the county show.The Beatles would have been blaring out of showground...
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Richard Austin's Animal Magic
Remember the late Danny Kaye singing There Once Was An Ugly Duckling, based on the Hans Christian Anderson story of the ugly duckling which turned into a swan? I don't think that many people today...
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After 3k miles and ten polar expeditions, Ann plans final trip to North Pole
Laura Joint talks to Ann Daniels, from Devon, who hopes to become the first woman to sledge-haul across the frozen Arctic Ocean to the North Geographic Pole – on her own.In an age of "been there, done...
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Manure spreader is stolen from farm
A dung spreader worth thousands of pounds has been stolen from a farm. Offenders gained entry to the farmyard in the Pengover Green area of Liskeard in South East Cornwall between May 23 and 25 before...
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Woman injured as VW Beetle flips over in crash
A woman has been airlifted to hospital following a two-vehicle crash on a major road. A turquoise Volkswagen Beetle flipped over on to its roof yesterday with the female occupant trapped inside. She...
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Crash victim 'had medical episode'
A woman was found unconscious after suffering what is thought to have been a medical episode in a crash. She was taken to hospital following the collision yesterday involving a black Hyundai Terracan...
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Dog and owner rescued from cliff edge near Exmouth
A woman has been rescued from a cliff edge after being cut-off by the tide while trying to find her dog. The woman got into difficulties after watching her young springer spaniel fall from Orcombe...
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PICTURES: Aircraft from Culdrose and Yeovilton in Battle of the Atlantic
Aircraft from Westcountry naval airbases have taken part in a flypast in Liverpool to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the Battle of the Atlantic.Fleet Air Arm aircraft, representing Royal Naval Air...
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Town's traffic scheme criticised for killing trade
A traffic reversal scheme designed to stop rat-running through a South Hams town has been criticised by traders for killing business.The majority of shop owners in the market town of Totnes believe...
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Eddie is a force to be reckoned with on TV, film, the stage and the road
Eden Project, MondayIt's been a long time coming, but it's just a couple of days until comedian and movie star Eddie Izzard steps on stage to perform at the Eden Sessions 2013 – a booking made more...
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Cornish premieres for art-world film
Penzance and Falmouth, Monday and TuesdayA film charting the lives of a group of artists in Lamorna in the run-up to the First World War has two exclusive pre-release premieres in Cornwall next week....
View ArticlePast, present and future link science and drama together
TR2, Plymouth, Tuesday to SaturdayCurious Directive's new play, After The Rainfall, fuses science and drama, weaving together several different story strands in one performance piece.The first period...
View ArticleIgnite festival will be here, there and everywhere in city
Various venues, Exeter, Monday to SundayAny space can be a theatre; everyone can tell a story. That's the philosophy of Ignite, Exeter's annual festival of theatre. You can see productions in spaces...
View ArticleWhen the heat is on Big Brother is one step ahead
For someone who has the Aladdin Sane album cover framed on my living room wall, and Hunky Dory a regular fixture on my record player, David Bowie – Five Years (Saturday, BBC Two) was a proper...
View ArticlePlans to end decades of road misery on A303 and A30
Transport Secretary Patrick McLoughlin has confirmed widening the notorious second main road between the South West and London is among the country's top priority highway building schemes vying for...
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Sunshine shakes off misery of coldest spring for 50 years
Summer has arrived in the Westcountry as an extended period of dry and warm weather brings to an end months of miserable conditions.The region is poised to enjoy the hottest spell so far this year,...
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Labour to force vote on pilot badger cull which can start today
MPs will next week vote on whether they support the controversial cull of badgers that is permitted to start in the South West from today.Labour, which opposes the Government-sanctioned plan, has...
View ArticleTrying to stop the badger cull – with vuvuzelas and loud music
The spokesman for the anti-badger cull protesters, could not have been clearer. "The moment we know the cull is happening," Jay Tiernan told last week's Farmer's Guardian, "we would expect 200 or 300...
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