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More than 250 properties in Devon will benefit from the County Council’s Flood Risk Management Action Plan this financial year.

The County Council’s Cabinet today approved a £1.3 million programme which will address a range of flood problems in communities across Devon.

As a result of Devon County Council schemes in the past financial year, flood protection has been improved at more than 50 properties. It’s estimated that more than 4,000 properties in over 24 communities have also benefited from Defra-funded Flood Resilience Community Pathfinder Projects over the last two...

Wendy Smith from Jersey is appealing for help to find a relative who may still be living in Exeter.

Wendy is researching her family history and would like to hear from anyone in knows or knew Marjorie Wild nee Lovatt-Smith.

Marjorie Lovatt Smith, who will now be in her 90s, was born in 1925 and joined the ATS as a Kine Theodolite Operator towards the end of the Second World War.

She then served a two and a half year tour in Uganda, followed by a tour of service in Nigeria, where she met her first husband Algar Robertson, in 1955.

Algar died in 1975.

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Researchers from the University of Exeter are involved in a major European £13.3 million funding initiative which aims to unpick the biological reasons underlying social withdrawal.

Withdrawing from family and friends is a common symptom of Schizophrenia, Alzheimer’s disease and Major Depressive Disease, and discovering the cause could pave the way for new drug treatments.

Professor Jonathan Mill, Professor of Epigenetics and his team at the University of Exeter Medical School, are part of the PRISM project (Psychiatric Ratings using Intermediate Stratified Markers), a...

Celebrations will be in full swing on Ladies’ Night at Exeter Racecourse this year which beautifully coincides with Her Majesty The Queen’s 90th birthday on Thursday, April 21. Finest outfits are the order of the day as judges walk around the racecourse to select the finalists for the coveted Best Dressed Lady and Best Dressed Gentleman competitions. There will be special footage of Her Majesty The Queen shown on the big screen, a bottle of champagne will be given to the 90th person through the gate and to the person who buys the 90th racecard and owners of horses running in the Many Happy...