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On Saturday Exeter Pound plays host to a gathering of social entrepreneurs, economic thinkers, businesses, voluntary and community groups, all exploring ways to develop a more prosperous and ecologically beneficial economy in which everyone shares, starting here in Devon with local projects.

Stewart Wallis, Senior adviser at the New Economics Foundation, will give a keynote address ‘A New Economy and How To Make it Happen’. NEF is considered to be the UK’s leading think tank in promoting social, economic and environmental justice.

Also attending will be representatives of...

RD&E Chief Executive Angela Pedder OBE is to move into a new role this summer after leading the Royal Devon & Exeter NHS Foundation Trust for almost 20 years.

Angela is to become the Lead Chief Executive for the new collaborative NHS Success Regime programme in Northern, Eastern and Western Devon.

In this role, Angela will lead the delivery of changes agreed through the Success Regime to make sure that the residents of Devon have access to high quality health care that is affordable within the resources allocated to the county. Angela will be responsible for leading...

Farmers’ leaders in the South West say the lack of response from Defra ministers to letters highlighting problems with the Basic Payment Scheme (BPS) is ‘disappointing and insulting’.

The NFU’s South West regional board wrote to Environment Secretary Liz Truss and Farming Minister George Eustice in February (12th) expressing their frustration at the way the RPA had ‘utterly failed’ and asking them to look into ‘the inadequacies of the RPA’s system… as a matter of urgency’ but so far there has been no reply.

Many farmers are still waiting for their payment, with those in the...

East Devon District Council has almost completed its annual cliff inspections at Sidmouth’s Connaught Gardens, Beer’s East Beach and East Cliff at Budleigh Salterton.

As a matter of emergency, Seaton West Walk cliffs were done earlier in the year, due to a recent cliff fall. It is anticipated that all the inspections will be finished by mid April.

East Devon inspects ten cliff sites across the district on a regular basis and the purpose of the inspections is to ensure the safety of the public by identifying any unsound areas of cliff face, which are then removed or dealt...