Guy Henderson Local Democracy Reporting Service Google Plans have been submitted for the former police station in Heavitree Road, Exeter Plans have been submitted to knock down a former Devon police station to build more than 800 homes for university students and local people. The plans for Exeter’s former police station, on Heavitree Road, would...
A plan for up to 100 homes to be built on land near a historic house has been approved. The proposals for Tidcombe Hall in Tiverton were rejected for a second time by Mid Devon District Council’s planning committee last year, with the plan attracting some 170 letters of objection. Opponents at the time expressed...
A barrage of Iranian missiles struck Israel on Sunday in the hours following a series of US strikes on nuclear facilities in Iran. Emergency workers raced to clear rubble from the site of an Iranian missile attack in the Tel Aviv neighbourhood of Ramat Aviv. Israeli police say six people with minor injuries were evacuated...
Israeli forces have killed 23 Palestinians after opening fire on crowds who had gathered near an aid distribution site, witnesses and medics say. Tanks and drones fired at thousands of people near an aid distribution centre in central Gaza run by the US- and Israeli-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), the witnesses and medics said. A...
Seven years ago last week Exeter City Council’s executive committee decided to close Clifton Hill sports centre permanently on what it claimed were best value grounds. Heavy snowfall had damaged its roof, apparently beyond repair. The council would sell the whole Clifton Hill site for development. Proceeds from the sale would be used to offset...
Rebecca Morelle, Alison Francis and Victoria Gill BBC News Science Team Getty Images / Maxar Technologies. Iran’s Natanz nuclear site has been a target of Israel’s airstrikes The IAEA has described the attacks on Iran’s nuclear facilities as “deeply concerning”. On Monday, its Director General Rafael Grossi said that military escalation “increases the chance of...
Israeli forces have killed more than 51 Palestinians and wounded many more after opening fire near an aid distribution site in southern Gaza, witnesses and rescuers say. The Hamas-run civil defence agency said Israeli troops fired on crowds near the aid site in Khan Younis. More than 200 people were reportedly injured. The Israeli military...
The intense fighting between Israel and Iran continues, four days after Israel launched strikes on Iran. Iran hit Israel with a wave of missiles overnight, with some penetrating the Iron Dome defence system – the number killed in Israel since Friday has risen to 24. The BBC’s Hugo Bachega is in Petah Tikva, where an...
Works are beginning on Monday to allow the excavation of a mass burial site linked to a historic mother and baby institution in the Republic of Ireland. In 2016, investigators found what they described as “significant quantities of human remains” in underground chambers at the site in Tuam in County Galway. Tests confirmed the bodies...
BBC correspondent Hugo Bachega reports from Bat Yam near Tel Aviv which has been targeted by Iran. Read full article at source...
Palestinians are reported to have been killed and wounded in another shooting as they gathered near an aid distribution site in central Gaza. According to Palestinian journalists, those killed were fired on by Israeli troops. Information on Saturday’s incident is scarce as the internet has been down in Gaza for more than two days. There...
A temporary car park with more than 200 spaces is set to be opened in a Devon town centre. Torbay Council said the surface level car park at Paignton’s Victoria Centre would be open 24 hours a day with 12 spaces dedicated for blue badge holders along with areas for motorcycles and permit holders. The...
A black box has been found at the site of the Air India plane crash in Ahmedabad, India’s civil aviation minister said on Friday. The flight data recorder was recovered within 28 hours by India’s Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB), Ram Mohan Naidu Kinjarapu confirmed. All but one of the 242 people on the London-bound...
The scene in Ahmedabad after the Air India passenger plane crashed shortly after take off is very shocking. Smoke is still rising from the ruins of buildings at the crash site. Pictures show a burnt bed frame lying in the street. Everyone is running, trying to save as many lives as possible. Firefighters can be...
242 people were on board the Air India plane. Read full article at source...