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Exeter redemption foiled

A prisoner trying to tunnel out of his cell has recieved a further 8 month on his sentence, which was due to finish next month.

Just call us futurists

It's as if the decision makers at the Exeter City and Devon County Councils actually read this site for ideas of community projects.

Playing the long game

To our surprise, when Devon County Council reversed the one way direction in Bampfylde Street they kept the on street parking and moved it across the street, but now it's being removed altogether.

What a fucking twatOnce upon a time there was an advert for Tango where a rotund, bald bloke, painted orange slapped a guy round the face to symbolise the refreshing taste of the orangey drink, thus was born 'happy slapping'.

We tried to tell them!What can we say other than "We told you so". Devon County Council have admitted changing the direction of traffic in Bampfylde Street was a complete cock-up.

Schoolboy errorIt's a simple enough article, only 67 words long, but the Echo seems to have made a very basic mistake by calling the Portuguese Man 'o War a jellyfish.

A stripper at a stag do?! What's the world coming to?Once again the Echo has completely misjudged the mood in Exeter by running a sensationalist front-page article about a stripper performing sexual acts at a stag party.

Target demographicsAre Express & Echo that strapped for cash that they need to have advertisements on every single valuable inch of their plug and play website?