Joshua Nevett Political reporter PA Rough sleeping will be decriminalised next year under government plans to scrap a 200-year-old law. Ministers are planning to scrap the Vagrancy Act, which outlaws rough sleeping in England and Wales. The law was introduced in 1824 to deal with rising homelessness, but Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner has called...
Huge undulating, sloped greens are lightning fast. Another legend, Sam Snead, joked: “I put a dime down to mark my ball and the dime slipped away.” It was seeing a Sarazen putt run off an Oakmont green at the 1935 championship that inspired Edward Stimpson to invent the measuring device known as a “Stimpmeter” to...
To celebrate label’s formative years, on 20 June, Rough Trade 45s: Volume 1 covers the influential indie label’s early releases between 1978 and 1980 featuring Augustus Pablo, The Raincoats, Cabaret Voltaire, Swell Maps and more, with Rough Trade 45s: Volume 2 covering 1980-1993 due to release later in 2025. Boasting eight classic 45s that followed...
The Boo Radleys | The Lunar Pull Rough Trade, Liverpool30th March 2025 Martin Gray catches the weekend’s homecoming show by The Boo Radleys performing their 1995 album Wake Up! in its entirety to mark its 30th anniversary. Support comes courtesy of emerging Wirral-based indie rock hopefuls The Lunar Pull. This is the first time I have...
HEADLINES City council holds sham Northbrook swimming pool closure consultation £600,000 Exeter Leisure services budget cut signed off two weeks before pool consultation opened as St Sidwell’s Point drains other council leisure sites. Read more. Met Office to sell Exeter Science Park supercomputer and office buildings Disposal motivated by replacement of nine year-old supercomputer with...
An annual rough sleeper count conducted by Exeter City Council for the government “consistently underestimates” the true levels of rough sleeping in the city, according to homelessness charity St Petrock’s, which is calling on the council to change its approach. The snapshot count, which is supposed to capture the number of rough sleepers on a...
A drop in overnight temperatures will see Exeter City Council introduce emergency measures to bring rough sleepers inside this week. The City Council is activating its Severe Weather Emergency Protocol (SWEP) once more, this time from Wednesday evening through to Monday 17 March, as temperatures are forecast to dip towards freezing for Exeter. The Council...
Emergency measures to bring rough sleepers inside have been extended as overnight temperatures remain below freezing in Exeter. Exeter City Council said on Monday 3 March that it would be extending its Severe Weather Emergency Protocol (SWEP) until Wednesday 5 March due to the cold conditions remaining. Temperatures are expected to go from Wednesday onwards,...
Rough sleeping figures in Exeter have dropped to all-time low of 11 but are still 11 too many. Whilst welcoming the latest reduction, the City Council said there was still much to do to bring the rough sleeping figure down to zero. “Eleven people rough sleeping on our streets, is still 11 people too many,”...