Graduate innovation to detect water contamination up for national award

Post published:November 5, 2025
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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…

Tips to support hedgehogs from rescue charity Secret World

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BBCThe rescue centre is currently housing around 50 hedgehogsA wildlife rescue centre has said we need to support hedgehogs in our gardens this winter as they say the mammals are close to becoming "endangered".Staff at Secret World Wildlife Rescue Centre near Highbridge in Somerset are currently housing around 50 hedgehogs and have calls everyday about animals.George Bethell from Secret World Wildlife Rescue Centre said: "Numbers have declined quite a lot in the last 30 years so they are…

Flu vaccine study in Cornwall looks for trial volunteers

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A research delivery centre is looking to recruit patients to investigate the effect of a new drug to prevent flu. The Cornwall and Isles of Scilly Commercial Research Delivery Centre (CIOS CRDC) said it was selected as a delivery site for a clinical trial of a new type of vaccine designed to prevent or reduce the severity of infections caused by influenza.It said because the seasonal flu vaccine relied on the strength of an individual's immune system, its…

Loud fireworks can have ‘fatal outcomes’ for animals says RSPCA

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Alexandra BassinghamWest of EnglandBBCEvent organisers are being urged to consider quiet fireworks to protect animals and wildlifeFirework event organisers are being urged to consider quieter, more animal-friendly displays.The RSPCA has said it wants the noise levels of fireworks reduced, their sales limited and firework-free zones created.The charity reported last year on the severe injury of a horse named Foxy and the death of dog Luna after both were separately spooked by fireworks.A spokesperson for Cheltenham Animal Centre said:…

Ottery St Mary Tar Barrels 2025: Youngest runner meets oldest

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Dan Wareing and Andrea Ormsby,DevonBBCJessica told Les White she was "excited and a little bit nervous" for the eventWearing "a warm woolly jumper" is key to success at one of Devon's most historic traditions, according to the oldest man taking part this year.Les White, 69, will be taking part in the Ottery St Mary Tar Barrels on Wednesday evening, with up to 20,000 spectators expected.A total of 27 flaming barrels will be carried, or rolled, through the town,…

Bethan’s Rock museum reopens in Poole after £10m revamp

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Sarah Spina-MatthewsSouth of EnglandBCP CouncilPoole Museum welcomes visitors back from Wednesday after its "soft launch"A town's museum that is famously home to a girls rock is set to reopen to the public following a £10m redevelopment. Poole Museum in Dorset officially reopens on Wednesday following the "soft launch" of its new galleries and exhibitions. Visitors will once again be able to see Bethan's Rock - a treasured stone donated by a five-year-old girl - alongside its other artefactsThe…

Standing with Giants Falklands silhouettes opens at Nothe Fort

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An art installation of 258 silhouetted figures representing those who died in the Falklands War is set to open at a historic sea fort.Standing with Giants: Falklands Tribute was created using recycled materials by artist Dan Barton and will be displayed at Nothe Fort in Weymouth from Wednesday.It was previously showcased at locations such as the parade ground at Fort Nelson overlooking Portsmouth and Thoresby Park, Nottinghamshire.Mr Barton, who is based near Witney, Oxfordshire, said he had been…

US kills two more people in latest strike on vessel in the Pacific | Donald Trump News

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Legal experts says US attacks amount to extrajudicial killings even if those targeted are suspected of drug trafficking.Published On 5 Nov 20255 Nov 2025Click here to share on social mediashare2ShareThe United States has killed two people in another strike on a vessel in the Pacific, US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth said, bringing to at least 67 the number of people killed in US attacks on boats in the Caribbean and Pacific since early September.In a post on…

RSF digging mass graves in Sudan’s el-Fasher to ‘clean up massacre’: Expert | Conflict News

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The Paramilitary Rapid Support Forces are collecting bodies after the deadly takeover of North Darfur capital, US researcher says.A researcher at Yale University in the United States says the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) are digging mass graves in el-Fasher, the city in Sudan’s western Darfur region that has seen mass killings and displacement since the RSF took over last month.Nathaniel Raymond, executive director of the Humanitarian Research Lab at Yale’s School of Public Health, told Al Jazeera…

US transport secretary warns of ‘mass chaos’ if gov’t shutdown prolongs | Donald Trump News

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There have already been numerous flight delays as the FAA slows down or stops traffic when it is short of controllers.Published On 4 Nov 20254 Nov 2025Click here to share on social mediashare2ShareUnited States Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy has said that there could be chaos in the skies next week if the government shutdown drags on and air traffic controllers miss a second paycheck.Duffy made his comments on Tuesday as the US government shutdown dragged into its 35th…

Concerns about Highbridge killer ‘not added to health record’

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Martin Jones,BBC West Investigations in Wells and Chris Lockyer,SomersetFamily handoutPaul Wells was killed by his neighbour in Highbridge, Somerset, in 2020Concerns raised about a man who went on to kill his neighbour were not recorded on his mental health record, an inquest has heard.Richard Matthews, who had severe mental health problems, stabbed his neighbour Paul Wells in Highbridge, Somerset on 25 June 2020.The inquest into Mr Wells' death heard that at least four attempts to raise concerns about…

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

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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…