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The principle of an integrated Exeter cycle network, linking up schools, new developments, the university, the Exeter and East Devon Growth point, and the city centre has been approved.

Devon County Council’s cabinet has given the greenlight to progressing plans for a series of high quality, multi-use routes around the city for use by residents, commuters, students and visitors.

Priority will be given to two multi-use trails - both linking Redhayes Bridge, which crosses the M5 near Junction 29, to the city centre, but serving different purposes.

The first ‘primary’...

Two leading visitor attractions in Exeter have scooped top awards from an online review site.

TripAdvisor, which is the world’s biggest online travel review website, has awarded its coveted Certificate of Excellence to the Royal Albert Memorial Museum (RAMM) and the Underground Passages.

Now in its sixth year, the TripAdvisor award celebrates excellence in hospitality and is given only to services that consistently achieve great reviews on TripAdvisor by continually delivering a high quality customer experience.

2016 is the second year in a row that RAMM and the...

Dartmoor National Park Conservation Works Team has been busy this week, working with archaeologists to make repairs to the nationally important medieval settlement at Hound Tor.

Repairs are needed periodically to replace stones which have been dislodged by cattle rubbing, erosion or human interference. The work involves identifying where stones originated in the walls of the buildings and repositioning them in their original locations – occasionally using discrete amounts of glue to ensure the stones remain in place.

Andy Crabb, Archaeologist for Dartmoor National Park said...

Staff at a leading South West law firm were today celebrating news of a bumper annual bonus. Stephens Scown LLP, which has offices in Exeter, St Austell and Truro, informed its staff that this year’s bonus will be £3,000 – more than double the amount last year when the average payout was £1,300. The bonus applies to everyone, regardless of grade, from secretarial and admin staff up to fee-earning lawyers. The 130% increase is partly the result of a highly successful financial year for 2015/16 in which revenue rose by 18% to £17.83 million. But it is also due to the introduction of a new ‘...