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Max Polyakov and the Momentum Behind Britain’s Next Space-Industrial Chapter

Britain’s space story often gets pictured as big rockets, dramatic countdowns, and distant launch sites. The real momentum, though, usually starts in calmer places: an engineering workshop that learns a new manufacturing trick, a university lab that turns into a supplier, a logistics firm that...

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Palace announces Zara Phillips and Mike Tindall are expecting a baby

Buckingham Palace has announced that Zara Phillips and Mike Tindall are expecting a baby in the New Year.

The baby will be the first child of the couple who married in 2011.

Zara Phillips, 32, is the daughter and youngest child of Anne, Princess Royal and Captain Mark Phillips who divorced in 1992. She won the Eventing World Championship in Aachen in 2006. Later that year she...

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Urgent appeal to Devon during National Transplant Week

There are 184 people in Devon waiting for a transplant and 31 Devon residents have died due to the shortage of organs in the last four Years*. NHS Blood and Transplant is highlighting the figures to encourage people to pass on their donation wishes to their loved ones during National Transplant Week 2013 (8-14 July).

This year’s theme is Pass It On, stressing the importance of having a...

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Singer and actress Bernie Nolan dies

The singer and actress Bernadette 'Bernie' Nolan has died at the age of 52 after a long illness.

Bernie Nolan is best known as the former lead singer with The Nolans and for her parts in television dramas, Brookside and The Bill.

Born in Dublin but raised with her five sisters and two brothers in Blackpool, Bernie Nolan toured the local pubs and clubs with her family before The...

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Ofgem proposes new rules for suppliers to tackle energy theft

Electricity suppliers could face new rules requiring them to detect, investigate and prevent theft
National theft risk assessment service could be set up by suppliers
Up to one third of the electricity stolen each year goes towards powering cannabis farms

The energy industry regulator Ofgem has today put forward proposals for new rules requiring...

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Baby boy delivered by 'C-Section'

The birth of a newborn baby outside a Cornish police station has given new meaning to the phrase “delivered by C-Section.”

The little boy was brought into the world outside Camborne station by a group of police response officers from the locally-based C-Section.

The special delivery took place in the early hours of Friday 21 June 2013 when the on-duty officers heard a woman...

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Swimmer dies after rescue from South Devon sea

A man has died at Derriford Hospital after getting into difficulty swimming in the water off Beesands Beach, near Kingsbridge in South Devon.

A police spokesperson said that they attended the scene at approximately 12.30pm on Saturday 15 June 2013, after receiving a report that a male swimmer had been brought ashore unconscious.

HM Coastguard and South West Ambulance also...

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Chinese lanterns are banned at Glastonbury Festival

Devon & Somerset Fire & Rescue Service have joined up with Michael Eavis to remind the public that Chinese lanterns are banned from the Glastonbury Festival.

A spokesperson for the fire service said: "Chinese lanterns look spectacular but create a very real fire risk. Once launched there is no control over where they might land and can cause fires and harm livestock.

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Well-known Rabbi to visit Devon

Rabbi Danny Rich, pictured above, the Chief Executive of Liberal Judaism for nearly ten years and author of various books on matters of faith and belief, will be visiting Devon this month.

On Tuesday 20 June he will be speaking at the Annual Meeting of the Devon Faith and Belief Forum at the Coaver Centre, County Hall, Exeter, on the theme “Is Interfaith Dialogue merely an excuse for...

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House sales hit three-and-a-half year peak, says RICS residential market survey

The number of homes sold in the UK over the past three months reached its highest level since January 2010 as buyers across the country began to return to the market, says the latest RICS residential market survey (11 June 2013).

Chartered surveyors in the UK sold on average 17.9 properties during the three months to May. While low compared to the market peak of six years ago, it still...

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