A motorcyclist has been taken to hospital with serious injuries following a crash, police said. Devon and Cornwall Police said emergency services was called to Victoria Road, Plymouth following a report of a motorbike in collision with a wall at about 09:00 BST. Police said Highways were assisting with road closures in the area while...
The finish date for the second phase of urgent works to Exmouth’s sea wall has been delayed. The project is being delivered to protect Exmouth’s seafront from future storm damage and coastal erosion. East Devon District Council (EDDC) said the delay was due to “several unforeseen issues”, including safety checks, difficult ground conditions and bad...
Hint: It ain’t the one with the mirror on the wall. Not by a long shot. That film didn’t even score a bronze this weekend. First, though, let’s focus the film that did take the gold medal. The much-anticipated A Minecraft Movie expertly leveraged its gamer IP into a blockbuster opening weekend. The estimated gross...
James Peak Presenter, The Banksy Story AFP Sam was lying in bed one morning when her tenant in a house she owned in Margate sent her a photo of a piece of graffiti that had appeared on the wall outside. Astonishingly, it looked like a Banksy. It would turn out to be perhaps the graffiti...
A forgotten oil-on-canvas masterpiece by Indian painter MF Husain, rediscovered decades later, has rewritten the record books for Indian art. Husain’s Untitled (Gram Yatra), a sprawling 14-foot-wide mural, sold for an unprecedented $13.8m (£10.6m) at a Christie’s auction in New York last week. It shattered the previous high for Indian art of $7.4m (£5.7m), fetched...
Miles Davis BBC Devon political reporter BBC The wall on the main road through Shaldon collapsed in February 2024 A large wall that collapsed on a main road in a seaside town in Devon has not been repaired for more than a year. The landslip on the A379 in Shaldon, Devon, happened in February 2024....
