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THIS picture by Honiton postman Anthony Rowe shows the A30 as it has perhaps never been seen before.

The keen amateur photographer, 43, took the picture from a bridge in Honiton just before dark.

Explaining how he created the stream lighting effect with his Canon 400d camera, he said: "I used the neutral density filter to give longer exposure for about 45 seconds, which holds back the light and creates a longer shutter speed.

"I have used the technique before for cityscapes and bits and pieces but it is the first time I have used it like that. I took about 15 shots with different exposures and shutter speeds.

"I was very pleased with how it came out as I have managed to get some detail and lights in the background and you can see the road and not just the lights."

POLICE have refreshed their appeal for information after a man was left with slash marks all over his face and body in an unprovoked attack.

As previously reported in the Echo, the victim was set upon by three men in the incident in Tiverton.

Police said that the victim was walking along Wellbrook Street, near the Wetherspoons pub and St Paul's Church, between 3am and 3.30am when he was attacked.

During the incident, which happened on Sunday, August 15, he was punched to the ground and then assaulted with a knife.

A spokesman for Devon & Cornwall Police said: "The attack was particularly vicious and as a result, the victim sustained a slash wound to his forehead, another to the little finger on his left hand and also to his right shin and required hospital treatment."

The first suspect is described as being aged 20, around 5ft 8in tall, of stocky and muscular build, with short cropped light blond hair, untidily gelled.

He was wearing a light collared shirt and blue jeans.

The other two suspects are also around 20, about 5ft 6in tall, skinny and gaunt.

One had a shaven head and wore a black hoodie.

Police are keen to hear from anyone who witnessed the incident or has any information .

Anyone who can help is asked to contact police on 08452 777444 quoting crime reference KT/10/1492 or Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555111.

SCHOOLBOY Joshua Downing found himself taken out of lessons and had his "privileges removed" after falling foul of a Devon's school's uniform policy.

The 11-year-old's father, Adrian, said he was "shocked and appalled at the actions staff took" because Joshua's shoes were the wrong colour.

AN OPEN meeting to launch a new Friends of Higher Cemetery group will be held next Monday.

The meeting will identify areas of interest for the group and will include a walk around the cemetery.

Members of the friends group will have the opportunity to get involved in activities such as conservation, family history research and raising the cemetery's profile and educational value in the community.

The meeting will take place from 6.30pm to 8pm in the chapel at Higher Cemetery, St Mark's Avenue.

Anyone interested in taking part is welcome to come along and find out more about the group.

THE main terminal at Exeter Airport was flooded as torrential downpours saw around two feet of water hit the front of the building.

Some passengers were taken to the arrivals hall while others who had been through check-in were taken straight through to the departure gate.

Other travellers on flights that had landed were kept on the aircraft until the water subsided.

The Devon & Somerset Fire & Rescue Service was called to pump the water out.

IN 1919 Lenin expressed a wish for the circus to become the people's art form and it was given facilities and status with theatre, opera and ballet.

The USSR nationalised circuses. In 1927 the State University of Circus and Variety Arts, better known as the Moscow Circus School, was established using methods developed from the Soviet gymnastics programme.

When the Moscow State Circus began international tours in the 1950s, its levels of originality and artistic skill were widely applauded, and the high standard of the Russian State Circus continues.