Local News

Exeter's big gay picnic: next weekend

To mark the International Day Against Homophobia (IDAHO) Exeter's Lesbian, Gay, Bi and Transvestite communities will be holding a celebratory picnic on Saturday 17th May at Medieval Exe Bridges, off Fore Street.

He must be a terrorist

After a Royal Navy bomb disposal team was called to a flat in Barnstaple on Sunday two controlled explosions were carried out, but now a chilling new terrorist link has come to light.

850k to explain how buses work

Council bosses have defended spending £850,000 encouraging residents of Exeter and Exminster to get out of their cars and use public transport.

Echo offer cheap homesOn the Echo's website they are advertising houses for sale for under £5000 in Pennsylvania for those with a bit of money to spare.

Making crime illegalExeter's Express and Echo have launched their most baffling campaign to date. Having had a part in the outlawing of cool swords they now want to ban people driving whilst using mobile phones.

Carillion: Dirty rotten thievesThe PFI company Carillion has been hauled up in front of the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) for price fixing, inflating the costs of schools and colleges by up to half a million pounds.

Illegal fire storage in PolsloeFiremen were called out last night after a couple were found illegally storing fire in their shed in Polsloe.

Folks linin' up outside just to get downThe Love Shack is a little old place
where we can get together
Love Shack baby, Love Shack bay-bee.
Love baby, that's where it's at,
Ooo love baby, that's where it's at.