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The School Association ran a project to raise money to buy all the staff an Easter Egg as a thank you for looking after out children and keeping them safe and educated. ....
Every year we see so many preventable fires caused by disposable BBQs. They are a not only a fire risk when they’re being used, but also pose a risk when being disposed of, causing bin fires, and further damage to the environment to vegetation that has caught alight. They’re not really disposable at all. ....
Radio Exe Mum and son brothel owners convicted By Radio Exe News She ran eight of them in Devon A mother and son have been convicted of running brothels in Exeter and Torquay. They profited from the unusual - and illegal - family business that exploited women in the county as well as handling criminal property. Edwina Kalay, 59, admitted managing eight brothels, plus a joint offence of money laundering –relating to the transfer of more than £98,000 through her bank accounts – and an offence of possessing in excess of £3,000 worth of criminal property. Kalay, using the name Edwina Christian-Stockwell, was sentenced at Exeter Crown Court to two years and eight months imprisonment for managing the eight brothels. She receive two years and four months, and three months, respectively, for the money laundering offences which she ll serve concurrently - meaning no extra jail time. ....
Radio Exe Little support for Burgh Island pirates By Daniel Clark, local democracy reporter 13 objections to statue Objections have been raised against plans for a statue of two real-life female ‘Pirates Of The Caribbean’ overs fears it would glamorise violent criminals who contributed nothing to the local heritage. Plans were announced last month for 2.4 metre tall sculptures of two of Britain’s forgotten pirates, Anny Bonny and Mary Read, to be installed at Burgh Island. The pair wreaked havoc throughout the Caribbean in the early 1700s. Some historians have claimed the women became lovers, while others suggest they formed a three-way relationship with Anne’s husband, the English pirate captain Jack Rackham – more commonly known as Calico Jack. ....