The police are working with cricket clubs in Devon on a new crime prevention scheme, following a recent spate of thefts in the region. Bridestowe & Belstone Cricket Club, in the Okehampton area, is one of the affected clubs and had some of its equipment stolen prior to the season starting. Devon and Cornwall Police...
Hmmm. The Scottish National Party appears to have had the substantial backing of the Iranian government. At least it sure seems that way. How do we know? Dozens of the most prominent pro-SNP X accounts that accounted for about 250,000 pro-Independence posts on X all went silent at once–on the day Israel started bombing the...
Relegated Luton Town will open the League One season against promoted AFC Wimbledon, while Cardiff City will host Peterborough United a day later. The Hatters, who dropped into the third tier after back-to-back relegations, host League Two play-off final winners AFC Wimbledon on Friday, 1 August (20:00 BST). Plymouth, who were also relegated from the...
The end of Israel’s successful 12 Day War has changed the face of the Middle East already. Gone is the specter of nuclear weapons on ballistic missiles aimed at Tel Aviv, Haifa, and other Israeli population centers. The ballistic missile infrastructure itself has taken massive damage, as has the Iranian drone inventory and production capability....
Georgina Barnes BBC News, South West BBC The government announced on Tuesday that the creation of new mayor roles would be discontinued The Mayor for Plymouth (MfP) campaign says it will take the government to high court over an announcement there will no be a directly-elected mayor for the city. The government announced on Tuesday...
Truthout is a vital news source and a living history of political struggle. If you think our work is valuable, support us with a donation of any size. As Israel warned of a “prolonged campaign” against Iran and launched a new round of airstrikes on a nuclear facility and missile sites Saturday, a number of...
Ben Woolvin BBC South West home affairs correspondent BBC Connecting Youth is trying to raise money for a new youth space in Plymouth A group of young people in Plymouth is trying to raise £150,000 for a new youth space in Ernesettle. Connecting Youth is a community interest company which is planning to convert a...
The question on everybody’s lips is are these attendances just because fans do not really care about this revamped Club World Cup – or could this apathy continue into the actual World Cup in 2026? BBC Sport spoke to two American journalists to get their thoughts. Doug Roberson of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution thinks there were...
Essex need to start putting some pride into their T20 Blast performances, says captain Simon Harmer. Sunday’s six-wicket hammering by Middlesex was their fourth successive loss at the start of the campaign and leaves them bottom of the South Group. “We need to find ways to win games of cricket and if we’re brutally honest...
Getty Images Anas Sarwar said the SNP campaign was an attempt to push voters to Reform UK Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar has accused John Swinney of running a “dishonest and disgraceful” campaign” ahead of last week’s Holyrood by-election. Sarwar claimed the SNP were pushing voters to Reform UK through their tactics, which he described...
Why does Uber make videos where people say, “I’m non-binary or genderqueer”? And why does Lockheed Martin fund floats at Pride parades? Because companies want to raise their score on the Human Rights Campaign’s “Corporate Equality Index.” Equality is...
Chloe Parkman BBC News, South West Liz Seymour The Pink Floyd album artwork, which was shot at Saunton Sands and contains metal framed beds has been recreated (above) by the campaign group A campaign group against plans to bring an electricity cable from an offshore wind farm onshore at a Devon beach have staged a...
Rotating and resting players in secondary cups is not a new phenomenon – but Chelsea took it to a new level in the Conference League this season. They averaged 8.5 changes per European game, based on their previous Premier League line-up. In the league stage there was a recognised Premier League team and a Conference...
George Thorpe BBC News, Devon PA Media Lewis Pugh took 12 days to complete the swim around Martha’s Vineyard An endurance swimmer has said “we must stop killing sharks” as he completed a 60-mile (96km) trek around the area where Jaws was filmed. Lewis Pugh, a conservationist from Plymouth, swam in stormy weather around the...
United Steelworkers President David McCall called the move “a disaster for American Steelworkers.” President Donald Trump on Friday signaled broad approval for Japanese steel giant Nippon’s bid to purchase U.S. Steel, a reversal of his campaign-trail opposition to the merger that came a day after the United Steelworkers union implored the president to uphold his...