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Funeral Cortege Drive Past for Exmouth RNLI Volunteer Don Hodgkinson
Exmouth RNLI would like to announce that the funeral cortege of long serving volunteer, Don Hodgkinson will be passing Exmouth Lifeboat Station on the day of his funeral to enable fellow volunteers and friends to pay their respects. Following on from our earlier press release, it has now been confirmedContinue Reading
May the ‘Force’ be with you!
Imperial Force looks an outstanding each-way punt for an eleven-runner ‘aged’ Novice Stakes over the straight six furlongs of ‘good to soft’ Windsor today, when enough boxes are ticked for this consistent, hitherto luckless Andrew Balding-trained Camacho gelding, placed five times from eight outings and back to his best distance,Continue Reading
Freedomwheels Mini Bus Naming Ceremony
Freedomwheels, Exeter’s well established disabled transport charity recently held a ceremony to name one of their vehicles after a well-known and popular volunteer driver called Jim Will. Sadly, Exeter resident Jim died after suffering from cancer. He had worked for Freedomwheels for over 30 years. He often drove the miniContinue Reading
HSE says 52 Covid deaths have occurred since cyberattack
There has been a total of 52 reported deaths from Covid-19 since the cyberattack on the Health Service Executive six weeks ago. As The Irish Times reports, daily death figures have not been published since May 13th, when the number of those who died in the State as a resultContinue Reading
POP rewarded for ‘disruptive’ funding
Radical efforts to encourage partnership working among community projects in Plymouth have paid off creating a host of new relationships and an injection of tens of thousands of pounds of additional funding to the city. Plymouth Octopus Project – also known as POP – which supports the voluntary and communityContinue Reading
‘Cunningham’ should be hard to ‘Catch!’
Catch Cunningham fits snugly into my daily modus operandi for an eight-runner Novice Stakes over five furlongs of Newcastle tapeta this afternoon, the sort of bet we traded on successfully during a golden spell of each-way doubles/trebles which paid off any debts and enabled several tozenhance financial status considerably; ‘untouchable’Continue Reading
Comprehensive new guide to the world’s 435 species of seabirds
One-of-a-kind seabird guide written and illustrated by a seabirder for seabirders Renowned seabird expert, author, artist, and conservationist Peter Harrison, has announced his most ambitious work to date, SEABIRDS: The New Identification Guide. The culmination of a lifetime dedicated to seabirding, SEABIRDS: The New Identification Guide took 15 years toContinue Reading
WHO urges fully vaccinated people to continue to wear masks as delta Covid variant spreads
People wear face masks in Central Park on April 10, 2021 in New York City. Noam Galai | Getty Images The World Health Organization on Friday urged fully vaccinated people to continue to wear masks, social distance and practice other Covid-19 pandemic safety measures as the highly contagious delta variantContinue Reading
My leg was shaking when I stepped up for semi-final pen – England will NOT block out noise under that kind of pressure
IF England versus Germany goes down to a penalty shootout, do not expect Gareth Southgate’s men to be cool, calm and collected. They will have been practising and analysing and leaving nothing to chance to prepare for such a huge moment. Troy Deeney blasted home his FA Cup semi-final penaltyContinue Reading
Primary Schools across Cornwall are set to go Cornish!
Golden Tree Productions, the team that masterminded the Man Engine and Kerdroya: The Cornish Landscape Labyrinth, are inviting primary schools across Cornwall to Go Cornish! Commissioned by Cornwall Council, the Go Cornish for Primary Schools programme aims to give every child growing up in Cornwall the opportunity to learn somethingContinue Reading