Landowners can get subsidies from turbine operators

Farmers in Devon should stay with farming and leave energy-production to someone else, a leading rural campaign group has said.

About 150 wind turbines are currently proposed for the county, including many single turbines on farmland.

Landowners get paid by turbine operators if they provide sites.

Penny Mills, from the Campaign to Protect Rural England (CPRE) in Torridge, north Devon said farms should be just

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THERE were five 180s and five ton-plus finishes in Barnstaple Darts League this week.

Maximums were hit by Terry Ashton,

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Simon Girling said he could take on three people but there was no-one suitable

A Devon recruitment firm says it is struggling to recruit suitable graduates for jobs.

Exeter-based Girling Jones has been looking for three people to join its graduate training programme for six months.

But it has had only 35 applications, many of which are littered with spelling mistakes and bad grammar.

It comes on the day the government launches

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The research will look at how subtypes of diabetes may react differently to treatments

Medical researchers from Devon will be involved in a €45m (£37m) European project to research type 2 diabetes.

The Peninsular College of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Exeter and Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital will research and analyse samples.

It is hoped the project, involving 21 academic institutions across Europe, will improve treatment for

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First, there’s the surname. Devon Allman is indeed the son of the legendary Gregg. But he came from a broken home, and grew up relatively poor in Texas and Missouri. He was 15 before he ever made any sort of connection with his father.

Like his old man, however, Allman was obsessed with music, all kinds of music, from an early age. He is a singer and guitarist who has charted his own course since forming the band Honeytribe in 1999 (he took a six–year break to raise his son, but came back swinging with his debut album,

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Exeter-based company RULE has launched the limited edition PPQ RULE Supreme Style Bike with PPQ – a fashion house which counts actress Keira Knightley and singer Adele among its A-list fans.

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   21 February 2012
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   Toby Rundle auctioned off a rare Harry Potter book to fund his degree

   A new lifeboat in north Devon is to be named after an aspiring writer from Somerset who died aged 21, his family said.

   Toby Rundle died in October 2009 as he was starting the third year of his classics degree at Oxford University.

   Friends and family have raised more than £170,000 to have the RNLI

   Article source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-17113345

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   Welcome to SportsNation! On Wednesday, we’re going inside the boxing ring when Devon Alexander stops by to chat about his appearance on HBO’s “Boxing After Dark” on Saturday.

   Alexander (22-1, 13 KO) takes on Marcos Maidana (31-2, 28 KO) as both fighters make their welterweight debuts. The fight will be live from Scottrade Center in Alexander’s hometown of St. Louis at 10 p.m. ET/7 p.m. PT on HBO’s Boxing After Dark.

   Alexander defeated Lucas Matthysse back in June as he

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   The 10-second takeaway
   For the quarter ended Dec. 31 (Q4), Devon Energy met expectations on revenues and beat expectations on earnings per share.

   Compared to the prior-year quarter, revenue expanded significantly, and GAAP earnings per share shrank slightly.

   Gross margins shrank, operating margins improved, and net margins shrank.

   Revenue details
   Devon Energy recorded revenue of $2.59 billion. The five analysts polled by SP Capital IQ looked for net

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