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Tom Cleverley: Plymouth Argyle boss hopes results can reconnect squad and fans

Tom Cleverley: Plymouth Argyle boss hopes results can reconnect squad and fans

Inconsistency has been a big issue at Argyle this season.The Pilgrims had a terrible start, losing their first four league games, and have suffered long-term injuries to key players such as Xavier Amaechi, Caleb Watts and Julio Pleguezuelo.But they won five of their six matches in September before their current tough run where a 1-1 home draw with Wigan has been the only fixture not to end in defeat and saw Argyle lose meekly at Devon rivals Exeter…

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Exeter homeless death rate highest among English cities featured in annual Museum of Homelessness campaign charity report

Exeter homeless death rate highest among English cities featured in annual Museum of Homelessness campaign charity report

Exeter’s homeless death rate in 2024 was the highest among all the English cities featured in this year’s Museum of Homelessness Dying Homeless Project report after rising nearly threefold since the previous year.The campaigning charity, which publishes its research into the deaths of people experiencing homelessness across the UK each October, found that 21 people died while homeless in Exeter in 2024. It recorded eight such deaths in the city in 2023 and 2022.Exeter’s 2024 homeless death rate,…

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The law turns a “blind eye” to the severe financial consequences of being in an abusive relationship, study warns.

The law is failing victims and survivors because it is turning a “blind eye” to the long-lasting and severe financial consequences of being in an abusive relationship, a new study warns. The law should be reformed to make domestic abuse and its impacts on the victim-survivor a specific consideration when dividing financial assets, enabling awards to be enhanced. This is only currently taken into account in rare and extreme cases in family law when assets are redistributed. The…

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Akeel Higgins: Exeter City derby hero has ‘watched goal 100 times’

Akeel Higgins: Exeter City derby hero has ‘watched goal 100 times’

Akeel Higgins says he is still having to pinch himself about his first Exeter City goal.The 20-year-old forward, who is on loan at St James Park from West Bromwich Albion, got Exeter's second in their 2-0 win over arch-rivals Plymouth Argyle in October.The second-half strike was Higgins' first goal in senior football and saw the Grecians win a Devon derby for the first time since 2019. "It was a very special day for the club. We all knew…

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Devon tree surgeons join clean-up in devastated Jamaica

Devon tree surgeons join clean-up in devastated Jamaica

DART International UKThe team from DART International UK at work clearing fallen treesA team of tree surgeons has gone to hurricane-ravaged Jamaica to clear fallen trees to ensure vital supplies get to those in need.They are part of Exeter-based DART International UK, a volunteer humanitarian response team which helping to clean up the Caribbean country after Hurricane Melissa made landfall as a category five storm last month.Winds reaching up to 185mph (297km/h) caused widespread devastation across the island…

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Service on Exeter to Waterloo train line to return to normal

Service on Exeter to Waterloo train line to return to normal

South Western RailwayExtremely dry weather conditions had caused problems to the speed and frequency of trains Normal hourly services on a rail route connecting Devon and London are set to resume at the end of November after months of disruption.South Western Railway (SWR) and Network Rail have said they will restore the full West of England Line timetable on Saturday 29 November, connecting Exeter St Davids and London Waterloo.A reduced two-hourly service has operated since August due to…

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Peatlands project wins prestigious ERC grant

A project studying the impact of climate change on peatlands has won a prestigious Synergy Grant from the European Research Council. CLIMPEAT (Northern Peatlands in the face of climate warming and abrupt changes) has been awarded €12.5 million over six years. The project will investigate how peatlands in the northern hemisphere respond to climate change and future warming. These peatlands contain huge amounts of carbon and nitrogen which, if released, could amplify global warming. CLIMPEAT is led by…

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Devon’s elite attempts to “police” patriotism during World War One had limited success, research shows

Rich and powerful Devonians attempted to “police” patriotism during World War One because they were dismayed by an indifferent response to the European crisis by some in the county, research shows. These ‘provincial patriots’ were alarmed by objections from some eligible Devonian men reluctant to serve in the Army and the low recruitment rates in the area. But their efforts to restore the county’s patriotic reputation and convince Devon’s reluctant men to enlist achieved mixed success. This was…

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Solar radiation modification could reduce global temperatures but is no substitute for reducing emissions, says Royal Society

Techniques to reflect an additional small portion of sunlight back into space could help cool the planet if deployed globally, but they cannot address the full range of climate impacts or replace emission cuts, according to a Royal Society briefing. “Solar radiation modification” (SRM), published today, considers the potential impacts of SRM if deployed globally, in a scientifically informed way, across both hemispheres and for long periods of time. It evaluates its potential effectiveness, limitations, risks, and challenges…

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Theatre and Performance scholar wins international awards for experimental new film

Theatre and Performance scholar wins international awards for experimental new film

A drama scholar has won a pair of European awards for his directorial work on his debut film. Professor Konstantinos Thomaidis picked up the Best Director Award at the Berlin Indie Shorts Festival last month, for his short documentary, Mother Company, which he co-helmed with Alexander Raptotasios. This was followed by further honours at the Berlin Indie Film Festival, where Professor Thomaidis, of the Department of Communications, Drama and Film, received Best First Time Director for a Short…

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Graduate innovation to detect water contamination up for national award  

An innovation designed by a University of Exeter graduate to detect contaminated water and save lives has been shortlisted for a prestigious national award.   The FluoroGlow device is designed to detect Cryptosporidium in water – a parasite that can cause severe illness and even death, especially in children and vulnerable people.   Previously, it has been difficult to detect without slow laboratory-based tests. But FluoroGlow aims to change that by providing rapid and reliable results directly at the…

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Myths about rapid spread of the Black Death influenced by single “literary tale”, experts show

Myths about how the Black Death travelled quickly across Asia, ravaging Silk Route communities, date back to a single fourteenth-century source, experts have found. Modern portrayals of the plague quickly moving across the continent, following the course of traders, have been incorrect because of centuries of misinterpretation of a rhyming literary tale. This “maqāma”—an Arabic genre of writing often focusing on a traveling “trickster”—was written by the poet and historian, Ibn al-Wardi in 1348/9 in Aleppo but was…

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