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Eleven-year-old Taylor Murphy of Whipton Barton Junior School in Exeter has beaten almost 25,000 other UK primary school children to win a place in the live Grand Final of The BANANAGRAMS Challenge.

After triumphing over his classmates in the first stage of the free-to-enter national tournament earlier this year, Taylor’s impressive word skills in the online rounds secured him one of just 12 coveted places at the Final, which will see the UK’s Top Banana crowned on 30 April 2016.

Taylor and his fellow finalists will spend the day at the Magic Circle, the world-famous...

Parents across Devon have the chance to try out real nappies free for a month as part of the 20th annual Real Nappy Week 2016 next week. The Devon Real Nappy Project is supporting the Real Nappy Week, which runs between 18-24 April, by holding a number of events.

This national event, organised by Go Real, is designed to raise awareness, promote the benefits and show parents how easy modern real nappies are to use.

Parents are invited to get hands on and ask questions about choosing and using real nappies.

For parents who want to try before they buy, the Devon Real...

Teignmouth-based art group Flying Colours has won the opportunity to display their work in Exeter’s Royal Albert Memorial Museum. Their exhibition will be from Saturday 30 April to Sunday 29 May.

The 2016 Local Art Show competition was supported by the Express & Echo with readers voting for their favourite. The exhibition is part of RAMM’s Naturally Inspired season of botanicals, gardens and landscapes and Exeter Art Week.

Gahan Oliver, group founder and mentor, said ‘To have won this highly prestigious competition is a wonderful reward for the members of Flying Colours...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cN2oHCfsVow&feature=youtu.be Minor pothole repairs are being carried out by some of Devon’s Community Road Wardens in a number of pilot areas of the county.

Devon County Council launched its Community Road Warden scheme 18 months ago to enable communities to do a wide range of highway work for themselves, which the County Council can no longer do due to reduced levels of funding.

The initiative builds on the already successful schemes in place for public rights of way and the county’s Snow Wardens. It enables a Road Warden to act as the...