EMERGENCY crews say they are amazed a Devon man survived a plane crash in which three people died.
Michael Hudson is recovering in hospital after the nine-seater Fly Montserrat aircraft he was a passenger in came down shortly after take-off in Antigua.
The pilot, Captain Jason Forbes and 29-year-old Annya Duncan, of Jamaica, were killed on impact.
The other passenger, 57-year-old Sandrama Poligadu, of Guyana, was taken to hospital but died shortly after.
Mr Hudson is understood to have suffered a broken leg and arm as well as cuts and bruises.
More firefighters from Devon and Somerset Fire Service are choosing to take part in the Exeter 10,000 project, run by the National Institute for Health Research Exeter Clinical Research Facility (CRF), University of Exeter Medical School (formerly Peninsula College of Medicine and Dentistry).
Last month, firefighters from Red Watch took part in the scheme. Not to be outdone, this month it is Green Watch who are planning to add their data to the Exeter 10,000 project.
The project aims to compile a research register of 10,000 individuals from the Exeter and East Devon area....
So, 24 hours and counting until John Lewis opens its doors in Sidwell Street. But if you’re not someone who lives or works in or near the city centre, how are you going to get there?
“The important message is that it's going to be incredibly popular and incredibly busy,” says John Harvey, the city centre manager. “We have the car-parking capacity in the city centre to cope with that, but clearly the common sense advice to people is if you're coming in we really recommend you use park and ride, public transport or the rail network.
Nobody understands relaxed global home cooking in quite the same way as the Giraffe Restaurant chain. So we asked the Exeter branch to offer some tasty ideas for your supermarket shop on the way home from work.
Firecracker sesame chicken and egg noodle stir-fry
Mix and matching is very Giraffe. Fantastic noodles, crunchy chicken. Delicious. An Eastern-inspired promise delivered.
Business leaders have hailed the new £8.5 million Exeter College Technology Centre as yet another example of how the city is moving forwards.
Derek Phillips, vice-chairman of the Exeter Chamber of Commerce and Industry, said: “This college facility is a great asset for the city and should make science and engineering more popular with students, which is great. It’s what we need for the future and it’s a very good development.
“The striking design will appeal to many new students and it’s great news for Exeter.”
He was speaking as more than 100 members of the Chamber...
Devon County Council (DCC) is set to invest £3 million into a vital flood relief scheme for Exeter.
Devon’s Cabinet approved the contribution at its meeting this morning.
Now, a Council spokesperson told the Exeter Daily, senior councillors will lobby the Environment Agency to try to bring forward the projected start of the scheme from January 2017.
They will hear that efforts to accelerate the £25 million scheme are dependent on raising £12 million locally.
That would be added to the £13 million national grant which the scheme is expected to attract....
New junction arrangements on the A30 near M5 Junction 29 have come into operation as Devon County Council’s improvement scheme nears completion.
The new traffic-signal junction, which is just to the east of the M5 overbridge, connects the new link road from the C832 (old A30) at Blackhorse to the A30. It provides motorists with direct access to the M5 southbound for the first time.
Traffic will now also be able to travel in both directions on the connecting link road, and the Blackhorse on-slip to the A30 westbound will be permanently closed.
Researchers from the University of Exeter Medical School have for the first time identified the mechanism that protects us from developing uncontrollable fear.
Our brains have the extraordinary capacity to adapt to changing environments – experts call this ‘plasticity’. Plasticity protects us from developing mental disorders as the result of stress and trauma.
Researchers found that stressful events re-programme certain receptors in the emotional centre of the brain (the amygdala), which the receptors then determine how the brain reacts to the next traumatic event.
As students begin their university and college terms this month, they are very likely to be preoccupied with new timetables and meeting new and old friends, rather than worrying about domestic duties such as cleaning rotas, bills or crucially, fire safety.
When living away from home, whether in shared or rented accommodation for the very first time, it’s easy to get caught up in the excitement of student life. Devon & Somerset Fire & Rescue Service are urging all students to take some time to think about fire safety and to take personal responsibility for protecting...
