Monthly Archives: November 2025

James Overy: Australia call up Man Utd’s 18-year-old full-back

James Overy: Australia call up Man Utd’s 18-year-old full-back

He has yet to play any senior football. only joined Manchester United last summer and last year was playing in the 10th tier of English football.But 18-year-old right-back James Overy, who played for United's Under-18s against Leeds on Saturday, could be heading to next summer's World Cup finals after being called up to the Australia squad for friendlies against Venezuela and Colombia in the United States.Former Perth Glory teenager Overy moved to Devon from Australia in 2023, playing…

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Two remain in custody after suspicious item confirmed as harmless

Two remain in custody after suspicious item confirmed as harmless

Two men remain in police custody after a suspicious item found in a rucksack was confirmed to be "harmless".Police officers found the bag just before 15:30 GMT on Sunday on West Street in Weston-super-Mare. The bomb disposal team was called and, once the item was found to be harmless, the road was re-opened by 21:10.A 39-year-old man, of no fixed abode, and a man in his 50s, from Weston-super-Mare, are now being detained on suspicion of causing a…

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Polar climate change could amplify global health risks, study warns

Climate change in Earth’s polar regions is emerging as an under-recognised driver of global health risks, with consequences reaching far beyond the Arctic and Antarctic, researchers argue. A study by an international team of scientists led by Professor Gail Whiteman from the University of Exeter Business School presents a comprehensive framework mapping the complex connections between physical changes in the Arctic and Antarctic which could amplify climate impacts to human health worldwide. The researchers reviewed a wide range…

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How do you get suspension fixed in the desert?

How do you get suspension fixed in the desert?

Available for over a yearOli Jenks from Newton Abbot and his pal Seth Scott aredriving from London to South Africa .. in a Reliant Robin called Sheila. They're two weeks in now - and we've already been treated to videos of Seth drying his pants with a hair dryer, them getting a speeding ticket in the Sahara - and they needed the car's springs jacking up in Morocco.Programme WebsiteShow less Source link

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Production worry for Devon farmer amid ‘chicken lockdown’

Production worry for Devon farmer amid ‘chicken lockdown’

A Devon poultry farmer said new rules and regulations to prevent spreading a bird flu virus was essentially a "lockdown for chickens".The new national mandatory housing order by the Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA) was brought into force in England on 6 November with the aim to bring avian influenza (HPAI) H5N1 infection rates down. Sam Ursell from Windout Farm, in Exeter, Devon, said the farm operated an organic breeding flock of about 3,500 hens and cockerels…

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Cornish businesses urged to consider paying ‘real living wage’

Cornish businesses urged to consider paying ‘real living wage’

Seb NobleCornwall political reporterBBCPatrick Langmaid viewed paying the real living wage as an investment in his businessMore employers in Cornwall have been urged to pay their staff the real living wage to help reduce in-work poverty.The Living Wage Foundation said about 300 businesses - employing about 15,000 people - currently paid the real living wage in Cornwall.Truro Foodbank said it had seen a drop in the number of people accessing it for support over the past two years…

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‘I just want to breathe’: Protests over pollution in New Delhi | Climate Crisis News

Published On 10 Nov 202510 Nov 2025Click here to share on social mediashare2ShareA suffocating blanket of smog has engulfed India’s capital, permeating the air with an acrid smell as pollution levels soar, intensifying a public health emergency that has driven residents to demand governmental action.By Monday morning, New Delhi’s air quality index had reached 344, categorised as “severe” and hazardous to breathe according to the World Health Organization’s recommended exposure thresholds.In a compelling demonstration of public concern, dozens…

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‘Incredibly proud’ Bletchley veteran from Ferndown turns 100

‘Incredibly proud’ Bletchley veteran from Ferndown turns 100

Marcus White & Patrick HughesSouth of EnglandBBCPat Shepherd kept her work secret from her family until she was in her 50sA veteran of Bletchley Park, where German, Italian and Japanese codes were broken during World War Two, is celebrating her 100th birthday.Pat Shepherd, from Ferndown, Dorset, helped to run the Bombes - code-breaking machines - at the secret Buckinghamshire base.She said she was "incredibly proud" of her work but did not tell her family about it until later…

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Honiton Road in Taunton to close on weekdays for two weeks

Honiton Road in Taunton to close on weekdays for two weeks

GoogleA shuttle will run between Canons Grove and Trull Stores during the Honiton Road closureA road in Somerset will be closed on weekdays for two weeks while it is resurfaced.Work on Honiton Road, in Taunton, is due to start later and finish on 21 November.The road will be closed from 09:30 to 15:30 GMT on weekdays but will be open as usual on weekends.Councillor Richard Wilkins, Somerset Council's lead member for transport, said the team will do their…

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UK and Brazilian schools to partner on collaborative climate education programme

Schools Across the Ocean to be showcased at COP30 alongside Nature Poetry and Climate Cards Schools from the UK and Brazil are to team up on a collaborative learning programme focused on improving climate literacy and developing personal resilience and creativity. Twenty-five schools from each country will be twinned through the Schools Across the Ocean programme, uniting 5,000 pupils and some of academia’s leading authorities on the marine environment and climate change. Each transatlantic pairing will participate in…

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Man writes book based on 200 of his parents’ WW2 love letters

Man writes book based on 200 of his parents’ WW2 love letters

Steve KnibbsGloucestershire, SomersetMike GouldGrace and Les Gould rarely spoke of their time in the serviceA man has written a book based on more than 200 love letters he discovered his parents had written to each other during World War Two.Mike Gould, from Paulton in North East Somerset, found a suitcase in his parents' attic after his mum died, which contained letters, photographs and memorabilia he had never seen."I realised that not only are they love letters, but they're…

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