A Devon landowner has been ordered to move an unauthorised concrete barrier dividing two housing estates in Okehampton. West Devon Borough Council issued an enforcement notice for the site at Kellands Lane – dubbed “the Berlin wall” by some residents. The council said the structure was put up suddenly on 15 April, and was causing...
The two British tourists who drowned off the coast of a popular tourist town at the southern tip of the Great Barrier Reef have been named. Robin Reed, 46, and his son Owen, 17, who were from Caerphilly county in south Wales, were swept out to sea on 13 April while swimming at a beach...
Two British tourists have drowned off the coast of a popular tourist town at the southern tip of the Great Barrier Reef. A boy, 17, and a man, 46, were swept out to sea on Sunday while swimming at a beach without lifeguards in Seventeen Seventy – a town in Queensland named for the year...
Seventeen-year-old Gout Gout won the Australian 200m title and broke the 20-second barrier with a wind-assisted performance in Perth. He crossed the line in 19.84 seconds – 0.2secs faster than his own national record, but it was not official record because of a wind speed of +2.2 metres per second. Gout became the second fastest...
A former Royal Marine from Exmouth is proving that age is no barrier to success after he set a new world record in a recent competition. Paul Collinson, 61, bench pressed a new world record of 166 kg at the UK Single Lift Championships earlier this year, In 2024, he secured the British, European and...