A traditional Bonfire night celebration may come to an end after two men suffered serious burns in a tar barrel explosion. According to the BBC, the event involves flaming tar barrels being carried through Ottery St Mary in Devon and has been ongoing since the 17th Century. It attracts as many as 20,000 people to the [...]
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Walking over the M5 flyover on Tithebarn Lane Exeter, Devon. A binaural field recording taken on 4th August 2009. This is on my lunch break walking route - most of the route is more picturesque than the motorway flyover though! Motorway Traffic by BinauralDiaries
Marcel Berlins (16 November) is right that police cautions should not be used for serious offences. The Law Society continues to be very concerned about this deliberate practice by the Ministry of Justice. But if there is to be a change in approach, then the current policy of refusing to increase the legal aid budget cannot continue. It will become intolerable if more crimes are brought to court without...
A beautiful sunny day at Hollyford today, so I was able to sit in the kiln shed with the doors open listening to the Buzzards while I scratched away the surface of this big harvest jug. The decoration is taken straight from the North Devon tradition, but there's a lot of me and a lot of Hollyford in the drawing too. Here are a few pictures from my lunchtime walk with Digger the dog in the stunning...
It's been a long day...... I was up at the crack of dawn, the Evo was off for some suspension felting. I fired up the beast and headed off south westerly along the A303 and the M5 to Exeter. Damned fine bunch of blokes down there make some of the most amazing suspension kit in the whole World. They supply a lot of the World Rally Teams with professional race suspension. The engineering is sublime....
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A WWII veteran who played the bagpipes on a Normandy Beach during the D-Day landings is to be honoured by the French government for his contribution to the war effort. Bill Millin, who is now 86, was a mere 21 when – amidst German gunfire – he played ballads to lift the spirits of his comrades while they fought on Sword Beach. He is now to be immortalised in a life-sized statue by the townspeople...
ANDALUSIA | Sterling Jones scored a game-high 20 points as Shelton State got past Lurleen B. Wallace-Andalusia 84-53 Thursday night in junior college basketball. The Buccaneers led 40-28 at the half. Courtney Carr scored 11 points and Nigel Ramsey and Devon Adams both added 10. Brandon Benton led Andalusia with 13 points.
From the Sidmouth Herald : Branscombe: mysterious death book launch : THE mysterious death of John Perryman is the subject of a new book to be launched by the Branscombe Project later this month. Written by Barbara Farquharson and John Torrance, the new who-dunnit/social history book 'The Shooting at Branscombe Project Old Pits: a Nineteenth Century Devon Mystery' will be on sale at the village hall...
The British model has got her wings. Rosie Huntington-Whiteley is Victoria’s Secret Angel and will be walking the catwalk next month showcasing none other than lingerie. Find out more revealing details here. Heidi Klum is said to be this year’s Victoria’s Secret fashion show host! As a biography, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley was born in Tavistock, Devon, [...]
A bagpiper hailed a D-day hero was presented with a model today of a statue to be put up in his honour by the French. Bill Millin, from Dawlish, Devon, will be immortalised in a 10ft bronze statue near where he braved German bullets to pipe allied troops ashore during the invasion of Normandy on 6 June 1944. Millin, 86, originally from Glasgow, is being honoured by the mayor and people of Colleville-Montgomery....
The sixth in a series entitled 'Scribblings from the Surf' for Devon Life . To read the article, see the text below or click to enlarge the pictures of the original article below that. To see the whole series, click here . NORTH DEVON’S EXTREME ADVENTURERS Barrister and writer Tim Kevan meets an Everest mountaineer and the leader of the Lundy swim challenge With the its surfing beaches and the...
braved enemy fire to pipe Allied troops ashore at Sword Beach during the Normandy landings in 1944. He was unarmed and German soldiers did not shoot him because they thought that he was mad . The French of the area are putting up a statue to honor the man. Yes, I know, bagpipe jokes commence in 3, 2,
More photos » by Marcio Jose Sanchez - AP Dennis Erickson has his Sun Devils fired up. Browse more photos » We have talked a lot about how big this Saturday's game is for UCLA. On the other side ASU is treating the game with same sense of urgency . They are also getting a little fired up about rest of their season starting with UCLA: "To take the fall that we have been taking for the...
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