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Exe-Arts, the community arts initiative set up by Superact's Patsy Lang, has reached the halfway milestone after a busy two months of fun creative workshops for all ages in art forms ranging from environmental sculpture and photography to graffiti art and experimental drawing.

As a culmination of the project, many of the pieces will be exhibited at the community festival on 12th December, which will also include a lantern parade and live performances. There are pictures and reflections of the sessions so far on the Exe-Arts facebook page. The Exe-Arts initiative also includes some...

A blind veteran from Devon will march with his guide dog together with other blind veterans to the Cenotaph on Remembrance Sunday for Blind Veterans UK.

John Evans, 61 from Talaton, and his guide dog Johnny will join more than 100 other representatives of Blind Veterans UK, which this year celebrates its 100 years of service to vision impaired ex-Service men and women.

John served in the Royal Air Force from 1972 until 1978 where he worked as an Engineer. He trained at RAF Swinderby and later he was stationed at RAF Bicester and RAF Abingdon.

In 1999, John was...

The creation of a new independent organisation to run Devon’s libraries could be given the green light next week.

Devon County Council’s Cabinet will consider final plans to establish a new ‘public service mutual’, which will run the library service from 1 April 2016.

The County Council will remain responsible for the library service, but will commission the delivery of the service from the new organisation, which will be owned by library staff and the community and managed by a Chief Executive and Board of Trustees.

The new organisation’s name will be Libraries...

Students from a number of schools in the Exeter area were treated to an extremely rare talk when Dr. Helen Sharman OBE, the first Briton in space, delivered a fascinating lecture at the city’s Belmont Chapel on Tuesday 3 November.

The British astronaut who was working for Mars confectionary, on the team who launched Mars Ice Cream, was travelling home from work one evening when she heard an advert on the radio calling out for wannabe astronauts. After a gruelling selection process, Sharman was chosen from 13,000 applicants and sent to Star City in Russia for 18 months of highly...