Lives are likely to be saved after funding was granted for a pioneering health research programme in Exeter.
The charity Bowel Cancer UK says diagnosis of people under 50 with the disease is likely to be speeded up.
The Department of Health has given money to the city's University for research, which will get underway this summer and will aim to help doctors pinpoint who is most likely to be at risk
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Three years jail for charity box thief
And he can't eat in McDonald's for eight years
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Exeter's Steve Race believes they are in 'last chance saloon;
Totnes market not opening in Christmas week
Most traders don't want to do it
