Ottery St. Mary, England News

OTTERY St Mary's Team Rector Simon Franklin and Bishop Michael Langrish are pictured sampling the ale after the service Special new beer marks the occasion A SPECIAL brew has been launched to celebrate the 750th anniversary of Ottery St Mary's Parish Church.

THE jury at an inquest into the death of a 51-year-old Devon woman has retired to consider its verdict.

JURORS have heard that a woman requested to see a doctor just hours before she was found dead in a police cell.

CELEBRATIONS to mark an East Devon church's 750th birthday will take place next week.

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FIREFIGHTERS battled to rescue cattle from a burning barn. Crews were forced to stand back and let the fire burn out at Knightstone Farm, near Ottery St Mary when they discovered five tonnes of potentially explosive fertiliser was stored inside.

PUPILS and staff at a secondary school have welcomed a 1.4m extension. The seven-classroom modular building, at the King's School in Ottery St Mary, was created to house the geography department and the sixth-form centre.

THE Eden Project was last night crowned the best tourism business in the South West, writes the WMN's Jane Labous.

A FIRE has raged though a barn full of cattle in Ottery St Mary tonight. Fire crews arrived at Knightstone Farm after 8pm to find the farm building well alight.

HIT residents have welcomed a grant of almost 100,000 to help protect their properties from future damage.

OTTERY St Mary boss Andy Phillips is hoping his side can continue their recent good form in tonight's Devon Premier Cup clash with Alphington.

Organisers fear for the future of a centuries-old Bonfire Night tradition after two men suffered serious burns in a tar barrel explosion.

EXMOUTH'S popular and outstanding community college has been planning for three years how to provide modern education and training for the increased number of 16 to 19-year-olds it will have in a few years.

Undervaluing a property after an offer has been accepted is leaving house sellers with huge headaches.

FOUR years after a woman suffered brain damage at the Ottery St Mary tar barrels event she has broken her silence to speak publicly about the incident for the first time.

Ottery St Mary climbed off the bottom of the South West Peninsula League Division One East table in emphatic style as they thrashed Newton Abbot Spurs 6-0 at Washbrook Meadows last night.

THIS image captures the terrifying moment an explosion ripped through crowds at Ottery St Mary's tar barrel night.

STOKE Gabriel's fourth round Graddon Vending Devon Premier Cup draw at home to Plymouth Parkway Reserves brings back memories for joint managers Pete Gartrell and Jason Couch.

Spectators at a traditional Bonfire Night parade in Devon were engulfed by flames after a youth threw an aerosol can into a flaming barrel of tar.