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The University of Exeter is the top university in the southwest according to The Times and The Sunday Times Good University Guide 2017.

The university, which was The Times and The Sunday Times University of the Year for 2012-13, ranks 9= in this year’s league table. The Southwest region is well represented in the wider top 20 with Bath ranking 12th in the UK and Bristol 19th.

The Times and The Sunday Times Good University Guide 2017 is published over three days, beginning with a free 60-page supplement published this weekend in The Sunday Times (September 25). It provides...

A motorcyclist has died following a serious collision in Newton Abbot on Thursdsay (22 September).

Emergency services were called to Shaldon Road at 2.10pm after the collision between a red Mercedes B180 and the black Yamaha V-Max motorcycle outside Milber Service Station.

The motorcycle rider, a 53-year-old man from Torquay, sustained life-threatening injuries and was taken to Torbay Hospital. He died from his injuries in the early hours of today [23 September].

Formal identification has not been carried although his next of kin have been informed.

The...

To celebrate the 40th anniversary of Farms for City Children, the charity founded by Michael and Clare Morpurgo in 1976, there will be a unique Christmas concert performed by Michael Morpurgo, Virginia McKenna and a capella group, Voices at the Door at 7.30pm on Friday 2nd December at Exeter Cathedral.

The event is being sponsored by Every’s Solicitors.

Michael Morpurgo and Virginia McKenna will be narrating Michael’s story “The Best Christmas Present in the World” which revisits the trenches and tells the haunting story of Christmas 1914 when soldiers on both sides put...

The new ‘Twenty Sixteen’ golf course at Exeter Golf and Country Club is officially a soaring success with the men’s golf section close to being full.

With less than 15 men’s golf memberships now available, the club is bucking the trend with its thriving golf section. The new golf course combined with the arrival of new Head Golf Professional, Darren Everett and his team, has attracted golfers from across the region. Darren is now set to launch a state-of-the-art golf simulator to revolutionise all-weather, year-round golf, coaching and fitting in the region. All this in the year...