Exeter City club board chairman Nick Hawker is to step down from his role. Hawker, who is chair of Exeter City Supporters’ Trust – which owns the club – had been on the board for eight years. Also leaving the club is chief executive Joe Gorman, who first joined City as chief financial officer in...
Neyaz Farooquee & Thomas Mackintosh BBC News, Delhi and London Verified video shows the Air India plane descending before deadly crash An Air India plane travelling from India to London crashed within moments of take-off on Thursday, killing 241 passengers and crew, and more people on the ground. The Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner, which took off...
Security camera footage shows the moment Israeli forces boarded a yacht that was carrying activists towards Gaza, to deliver humanitarian aid. The 12 activists, including Swedish campaigner Greta Thunberg, were detained and their boat, the Madleen, was towed to the Israeli port city of Ashdod. The Madleen’s journey was organised by the Freedom Flotilla Coalition,...
HEADLINES First Exeter build to rent flats marketed at £1,375-£2,350 per month with “affordable” units costing £1,080-£1,800 plus bills Eutopia Homes rents in Exmouth Junction block would leave many workers with substantially lower income than Joseph Rowntree Foundation minimum for a socially-acceptable standard of living. Read more. Police and Crime Commissioner Alison Hernandez launches Devon...
Devon, Cornwall and Isles of Scilly Police and Crime Commissioner Alison Hernandez has launched a monthly “Commissioner’s Accountability Board” which she says will ensure Devon & Cornwall Police delivers an “effective and efficient police service”. The board is attended by interim chief constable James Vaughan and other senior police officers and staff from both Devon...
Manager Wiegman had her hands full going into the camp after goalkeeper Mary Earps announced her shock international retirement and key defender Millie Bright withdrew from the squad to focus on her mental and physical wellbeing. Paris St-Germain stopper Earps had fallen down the pecking order, with Hannah Hampton increasingly looking more likely to secure...
Universities and colleges across the country can thank Harvard for this latest development. If federal courts won’t allow the Department of Homeland Security to deal directly with Harvard on compliance for the Student Education Visa Program (SEVP), the administration can simply make it more difficult for everyone instead. That seems to be the case today,...
Exeter Harbour Board is looking for three new members to join the committee. Exeter City Council is the Port Authority for the Exe Estuary, some non-tidal sections of the River Exe and the Exeter Ship Canal. This stretches from Blackaller Weir (in Bonhay Road, Exeter) to a safe water mark a mile off the Exmouth...
Daisy Crawford Ms Crawford was travelling from Bristol to Belfast on Sunday A mother has said EasyJet should “treat people with a bit of common sense and a bit more kindness” after the airline told her she must pay to bring extra hand luggage containing breast milk and a pump onto a flight. Daisy Crawford...
Depose the DOGEfather? Spike the space genius? Eject the engineer behind the whole company? So says the Wall Street Journal. And “no,” says both the Tesla board and Elon Musk. Get ready for a fight, because Musk got hopping mad over this report last night from the Murdoch operation. According to their sources, the Tesla...
The Afghanistan Cricket Board will not see any of its funding from the International Cricket Council cut or diverted to its exiled women’s cricketers. An initiative to support the displaced Afghan players was announced by the ICC following its board meeting in Zimbabwe last weekend. However, as reported by ESPN Cricinfo,, external cricket’s global governing...
Dozens of members of the largest body representing Jews in the UK have condemned Israel’s government for the “heartbreaking war” in Gaza. In an open letter published in the Financial Times, 36 members of the Board of Deputies of British Jews said they “cannot turn a blind eye or remain silent” at the “renewed loss...
Stiliyan Petrov is urging Celtic to back Brendan Rodgers and invest more to make an impact in Europe. Rodgers spoke on Friday of adding “freshness” to his squad over the summer in order to take the club forward. “It was really clever from a strong manager asking for players,” said Petrov, who played for Celtic...
Dewey and Engelberg have both worked with Reynolds during their careers. Dewey is executive producer of the Welcome to Wrexham documentary and is a co-founder – alongside Reynolds – of movie, TV series, content and advertising creators Maximum Effort. He started his career as a writer with advertising agency McCann and was the marketer for...