Yearly Archives: 2025

Man caught dealing drugs at Boardmasters Festival jailed

Man caught dealing drugs at Boardmasters Festival jailed

A man who was caught dealing drugs at a music festival in Cornwall has been jailed.Liam Edmonds, from Plymouth, was already on bail for dealing cocaine, crack cocaine and ketamine when he was caught again at this year's Boardmasters Festival, which took place between 6-10 August, near Newquay.Edmonds, 30, admitted possessing class A drugs with intent to supply.At Plymouth Crown Court, Edmonds, of no fixed abode, was jailed for four years and told that he had "let down…

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Cornwall park boss ‘pretty certain’ missing flamingo is in France

Cornwall park boss ‘pretty certain’ missing flamingo is in France

The owner of a Cornish wildlife sanctuary from which a young flamingo escaped has said he is "pretty certain" that photographs taken in northern France show the same bird.Two photographs shared on social media show a young flamingo on a beach in Treflez, Finistere, on Sunday morning.Frankie escaped from a walled garden at Paradise Park in Hayle the Sunday before, despite having clipped feathers.Paradise Park director Nick Reynolds said there was a colony of greater flamingos in southern…

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Motorbike engine time capsule found under Devon floorboards

Motorbike engine time capsule found under Devon floorboards

Mark ChardA time capsule has been found under the floorboards of a home in KingskerswellA man from Kingskerswell is searching for the previous owners of his house after finding a time capsule under the floorboards.Mark Chard said a "gleaming" motorbike engine and letter were placed there in 1999 by the previous owner.He said the letter described how much fun the previous owner had had on the motorbike and the work done to the house since they moved in.The…

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Has Frankie the Flamingo flown to France?

Has Frankie the Flamingo flown to France?

Available for over a yearThere have been more potential sightings of Frankie the flamingo who escaped from Paradise Park in Hayle on Sunday 2nd November. Neil Caddy has been talking to Nick Reynolds, a director at the park, about the fugitive who could possibly be across the Channel. Photo credit: Alice Beddows.Programme WebsiteShow less Source link

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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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