A visitor attraction that cares for hundreds of swans has closed for winter a week earlier than planned and cancelled its half term Halloween events amid fears of a bird flu outbreak. Abbotsbury Swannery in Dorset had been due to welcome visitors to its Ghostly Games trail from Saturday 25 October to Sunday 2 November....
A military museum has hosted a training exercise to test the emergency services’ response to a chemical incident. Police, fire, ambulance, search and rescue teams and university paramedics took part in the exercise at the Tank Museum in Bovington, Dorset. The fake scenario involved a forklift truck colliding with a chemical tanker carrying chlorine, resulting...
A nine-day rail closure affecting passengers in Surrey and southern England during school half-term has begun. Replacement buses are to run for services between Staines and Windsor, and between Guildford and Havant from Saturday until 2 November. The final phase of upgrades to the Portsmouth Direct line are to be completed between Guildford and Havant,...
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Curtis LancasterSouth of England Jessica Levitt Jonathan Ross visited the Dorset based-club Talk show host and Celebrity Traitors star Jonathan Ross visited a girls’ football team and surprised them with a message from England Lioness Chloe Kelly. Ross spent two hours with the under-11s at Swanage Town and Herston Football Club in Dorset on Thursday...
Bournemouth boss Andoni Iraola has been speaking to the media before Sunday’s Premier League game against Nottingham Forest at the Vitality Stadium (kick-off 14:00 GMT). Here are the key lines from his news conference: Iraola confirmed striker Evanilson is “definitely out” for Forest’s visit, adding: “He is not far, not ready for Sunday but I...
Theatre Alibi is hosting an interactive tactile exhibition suitable for all ages from Saturday 4 October to Sunday 2 November at Emmanuel Hall. Play Interact Explore was developed by artists Leap Then...
Exeter College and Petroc are holding a public consultation on a proposed merger of the two institutions which they say would create the largest college group in the South West with more than 16,000 s...
Developer Zinc Real Estate has applied to Exeter City Council for planning permission to replace Clarendon House, overlooking the Paris Street roundabout, with a 297-bed student accommodation complex ...
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Proposals to build 65 dwellings in open fields overlooking Exeter near Barley Valley Nature Reserve have prompted 175 objections, with a public consultation on the plans still to run until the end of ...
Exeter Digest #90: Barley Lane greenfield plans – Summerland Street student block – Heavitree school playing field retirement flats – city council accounts inspection – Exeter ...
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Retirement home developer McCarthy Stone is set to build 36 retirement flats on a former school playing field in the heart of Heavitree following its submission of an application for full planning per...
Emily Ford, Niki Hinman & James AldridgeBBC News & Local Democracy Reporting Service BBC An example of the graffiti seen in Whitley Wood, Reading, on Thursday Councils across the south of Engl...