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Children’s Hospice South West is delighted that the recent Devon round of its £50 Challenge has raised £12,350.60 with winning team Graphic PLC, from Crediton, raising a fantastic £3700!

The Graphic PLC team was announced as winners at a special awards evening held at the Exeter offices of Old Mill Accountants, sponsors of this year’s challenge, and they said: ‘Graphic PLC is delighted to have won CHSW’s £50 Challenge, especially as it is the charity’s 25th Anniversary. The fundraising really pulled the team together, as well as the wider Crediton community, and we had great fun...

In May, Powderham’s deer park welcomed 50,000 music revellers to enjoy Radio 1’s Big Weekend, a momentous occasion for the region.

Whilst things were starting to calm down a little in the deer park, it wasn’t for long with the deer recently welcoming new additions to the herd, following the birth of fawns over the past couple of weeks.

The energetic fawns have been getting used to life in the deer park, frolicking in the ‘nursery’ area, close to the site music lovers watched the highly anticipated homecoming performance from Coldplay.

The park has altered very...

​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​New figures on BBC Radio 1’s Big Weekend in Exeter and the benefits to the city and surrounding area have been released.

Earlier in the year the University of Exeter estimated that the Big Weekend would bring about £3.5 million of benefit to the local economy. Visit South Devon has said that tourism alone would have seen an uplift of around £1.7 million as a direct result of the event at the end of May.

And latest figures show just how popular the spin-off Radio 1 Academy proved. Held over two days at the Phoenix in Exeter (as well as at venues in...

Exminster Victory hall has been announced as a finalist in RGB Building Supplies’ Well-Built Community Fund.

It is now down to the public to vote, and the winner will receive £1000 worth of building materials.

The hall was opened in 1921 to commemorate the end of world war one, and winning the community fund would give Exminster hall the chance to fix the facility.

Exminster is currently up against Combe Martin based The Natural Approach Group and Whole Again Communities in Penzance.

Paul West, Branch Manager at RGB Exeter said: “Giving the public the...