Tommy the Tawny Owl is the first owl on Twitter and is alreay gaining celebrity status. Tommy is located in the Rare Breeds Farm in Devon, UK, and this is a place for rare breeds of animals to live together and...
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Britain's longest marriage lasted 81 years. Frank and Anita Milford met at a YMCA dance in Plymouth, Devon, in 1926 - the year of the invention of penicillin. The couple married two years later. Frank Milford was 101 when he passed away. Frank and Anita Milford had two...
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Woodbury Commons, a common land in East Devon, UK that is popular for hiking and mountain biking, was "severely damaged" by a fire with blazing fronts 400 meters long that occurred on Saturday, June 27. The Woodbury Commons fire burned 20 acres of land that contained gorse,...
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The National Trust is to turn over area of land within the grounds of Stately Homes to become grow your own allotments. They will make 140 new allotments available to the public to use as allotments and grow...
Hundreds of motorists have have been stranded in the snow blizzard on the A38 and A380 south of Exeter, with dozens of others stuck on the A386 near Tavistock in South west of England. Police and...
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It has been revealed that a a royal navy nuclear submarine from the UK had a leak of nuclear material on November 7, pouring liquid coolant into a river. Now questions are being raised as to why the Royal Navy kept quiet about the event."The Royal Navy is facing serious...
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The bizarre fall weather has continued in the UK, with a freak ice storm hitting the British town of Devon."Dozens of people, including a mother in labour, had to be rescued after a freak hailstorm left a Devon town cut off by floodwater.More than a foot of hail fell on...
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Parts of East Devon and Cornwall in the UK have been hit by a series of floods after a night of storms, with severe rain and heavy hail. Fire officials described the situation as chaos. About 25 people had to be rescued from their homes, and an evacuation centre had to be set...
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A 22 YEAR-old man from Exeter with Apserger's Syndrome and a mental age of 10 was brainwashed by Al-Qaida extremists in Pakistan, claimed his mother today, as Nicky Reilly, a Muslim convert, appeared at the...
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Lured by high tax free salaries westerners move to work in Dubai and similar locations. Such moves are not a one-way deal. The attractive pay and luxury home require that you agree to live by the cultural mores...
"As a budding photographer, John Farley is used to capturing some extraordinary scenes and images.But nothing could prepare him for the shock of a speeding UFO which he caught on camera while taking pictures of a...
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Of the Saved by the Bell alumni, who would have thought that A.C. Slater would emerge as both a bonafide minor-American TV celebrity and now a "rising star" celebrity journalist himself? Feel the power of the D...
"The crustacean was so heavy that it broke the winch on board Jack Baker and Mark Tennyson's fishing boat.Weighing in at 5.88kg (12.9lbs) and measuring 32in (81cm) long, the huge creature is the largest of its...
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It's rare to find loggerhead turtles on UK beaches and when we do they are almost always dead or dying, their shells badly broken up on the South West's rocky shoreline. These two were survivors - a teenage...
A police helicopter chased after an unidentified flying object which nearly ran into it. "The three airmen described the unidentified flying object as "saucer-shaped", and proceeded to pursue, getting as far as the North Devon coast. This sighting comes only weeks after...
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