Exeter

Appeal after Olly Murs lookalike assaults man in pub

Authored by skein
Posted: Mon, 09/17/2012 - 11:34pm

Police are appealing for information after a man was assaulted in an Exeter pub by another man who was described as looking like pop star Olly Murs. The incident took place at around 10.50pm on Wednesday 12 September in The Imperial pub in New North Road. There was an altercation between two men and when the victim tried to intervene the suspect punched him to the floor and then kicked him to the face. The 25-year-old victim from Bolton suffered a fractured eye socket and bleeding to his eye in the incident. Police have released a description of the suspect (pictured) as follows: 5ft 8in...

My mission to rescue China's forgotten children

Authored by Marc Astley
Posted: Wed, 09/12/2012 - 9:32pm

Lyn Gould, above, with her husband Alan, has dedicated her life to helping orphans in China.

Here she explains, in her own words, why she has chosen to take such a difficult path in life...

People ask me how I can work with dying children in China - they say they couldn’t do it because they would just cry all the time. Do they think I don’t care? Do they think I am not affected by what I see every day? But I can’t not do it.

Everything in China is about money - there is no free health service. Even if a child needs surgery to help them to live, if the family can...

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