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Take her in the brown entranceIt's that time of year again when you can show off your prize porker and get well and truly sloshed at the same time. It's Devon County Show-time!

This town, is coming like a ghost townA week into the roadworks in Heavitree that closed an entire side of the city to incoming traffic, and it has proven to be the best way to get cars out of the city-centre.

Exeter's big gay picnic: next weekendTo 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 terroristAfter 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 workCouncil 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.