At least 15 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli tank shelling and gunfire near an aid distribution centre in Rafah in southern Gaza, according to medics and local residents. Mohammed Ghareeb, a local journalist in Rafah, told the BBC that thousands of Palestinians had gathered near a US-funded humanitarian aid distribution centre when Israeli tanks...
Exeter centre Will Rigg is likely to miss the start of next season after undergoing foot surgery. The 25-year-old suffered a ligament injury in the win over Northampton earlier this month. Exeter’s medical staff expect the former Coventry player, who joined the Chiefs last season, to be out for three to four months. It means...
Thousands of Gazan’s stampede towards a food distribution centre Crowds of Palestinians have overrun a distribution site in Gaza set up by a controversial US and Israeli-backed group, a day after it began working there. Videos showed people walking over torn-down fences and earth berms at the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation’s (GHF) compound in the southern...
Hartley, 26, could make his England return this week in the one-day international series against West Indies, which starts on Thursday at Edgbaston. He has had a decent start to the season with Lancashire but has still been putting in the hours amid the perennials. “It is a 5am or 5:30am wake-up, walk the dogs,...
A council said it had taken a loss on the sale of a former leisure centre site in order to keep a promise not to build student accommodation on it. Plans have been agreed to sell the old Clifton Hill leisure centre site, in Exeter, to a company that builds affordable housing for older people....
Bids for the two-acre site on the edge of the city centre were received in October 2024. The site already had planning permission for 41 homes but none of the bidders wanted to take those plans forward. The highest bidder, Preferred Homes Ltd, wants to build a 72-unit home for older people with an average...
Planning permission is being sought to partially demolish a shopping centre in Torquay. Nine shops at the Union Square shopping centre are to be demolished if permission is granted by Torbay Council, the Local Democracy Reporting Service said. The plans were submitted by the council’s development partner, Willmott Dixon, which is planning wider improvements to...
Poland has accused Russian intelligence services of orchestrating a massive fire that nearly completely destroyed a shopping centre in the capital Warsaw last year. In a post on X, Prime Minister Donald Tusk said Poland knows “for sure” that the blaze at the Marywilska shopping centre was caused by arson ordered by the Russian special...
HEADLINES Dartmoor National Park warns of continued high fire risk after wildfire destroys 1,230 acres of moorland Devon and Somerset Fire and Rescue Service took nearly 24 hours to extinguish bank holiday weekend blaze that followed warning of uncontrolled moorland fire risk. Read more. 24 hour year-round Sidwell Street “adult gaming centre” allowed at appeal...
A planning inspector has granted permission at appeal to convert a vacant restaurant and takeaway in Sidwell Street into an “adult gaming centre” after Exeter City Council failed to determine an application for change of use of the unit within the statutory time limit. The application to convert former pizza restaurant Firezza was submitted to...
Joe Tidy Cyber correspondent, BBC World Service Getty Images The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has warned criminals launching cyber attacks at British retailers are impersonating IT help desk calls to break into organisations. Hackers have targeted Marks & Spencer, Co-op and Harrods in the last two weeks, and on Friday the anonymous group told...
Devon and Cornwall Police (L-R) Mark Baker, Matthew Heyward, Timothy Patterson and Richard King were jailed Six people have been sentenced for their roles in a £1.7m construction scam in which staff hired by an energy firm accepted bribes in the form of cash, dodgy references and gifts including a Range Rover and an air...
Will Grant BBC Mexico correspondent BBC Alberto Salagan “really felt lost” when he was deported from the US to Mexico When Alberto Salagan was deported from the US in January it was the first time he’d stepped foot in Mexico since he was a baby. Born in the coastal resort of Acapulco, his parents took...
Louise Parry BBC News, Hertfordshire Aylett Nurseries Roger and Hazel started running a nursery before founding a garden centre for the public in St Albans One of the UK’s early garden centres is celebrating 70 years as a family business, which saw the owner fall in love with and marry his first employee. “Roger used...
Baxter said Ikitau was one of the “top centres” in world rugby. “He’s playing very well, he’s very keen to experience something else,” Exeter director of rugby Rob Baxter told BBC Radio Devon. “He’s talked a lot with the Australians who have been here at Exeter, they’ve all said that if he gets over here...