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A visitors survey is being carried out in Exmouth by an independent team of researchers over the next few months as part of an initiative by the town’s Coastal Community Team.

The study will provide key information about the Exmouth visitor economy and will involve a team of trained interviewers speaking face to face to around 1,000 people visiting the town from this month to October.

The Exmouth Coastal Community Team was established last year and its aim is to raise the town’s economic potential. The team is a local partnership which includes East Devon District Council...

The Dissenters Graveyard in Exeter will open to visitors between 11am and 4pm on Saturday 25th June.

Visitors will be abel to:

- see the work done and being done to repair broken monuments: restored chest tombs; broken headstones repaired and set upright; and gravestones being put together piece by piece.

- view an exploratory excavation which could reveal a previously unknown underground vault.

- hear about previous excavations including an investigation of an intact underground vault with visible burials.

- hear about the histories and sometimes...

A couple who met on FORCE Cancer Charity’s Nello bike ride have just celebrated the birth of their first child.

Refreshment stop volunteer Tracy Sanders and cyclist Roland Wainwright first set eyes on each other over bananas and bottled water at the Tiverton Rugby Club feed station in 2014.

“I’ve been helping with the FORCE bike ride for the past seven years and I was always joking that maybe I could find myself a nice cyclist,” said Tracy.

She was helping with the clear-up when three backmarkers on the 55-mile ride – Roland and his friends Phil and Suzanne Cook –...

Show of Hands, one of the leading acts in British folk, are to release a single and video to mark the centenary of the first day of WW1’s Battle of the Somme.

BBC award-winning singer songwriter Steve Knightley and multi-instrumentalist Phil Beer will offer one of Knightley’s finest songs, The Gamekeeper as a download single from July 1, tying in with a day-long tribute in their home city of Exeter to the 19240 Allied servicemen lost on the opening day of one of the worst battles in history.

That night, the Devon duo and long-term collaborator Miranda Sykes, will perform a...