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Can you help us please?

We urgently need CD’s, DVDs, PC games and books, so we can stock up our charity shops in time for the big Christmas rush.

As a local charity we needs £6.1m to run our vital services and we're hoping Exeter Daily readers can help us raise £30,000 from this appeal.

Your donation will contribute to helping hundreds of terminally people and their families living across Exeter, East and Mid Devon.

The donated items will be sold in our 19 Hospiscare charity shops and online from the our retail warehouse, the Hospiscare Enterprise Centre in...

Halifax recently launched the third Halifax Giving Extra Awards – an annual award which recognises and rewards people who give extra to help people in their community.

Following the success of the previous two years of the Giving Extra Awards, Halifax will once again be celebrating people in Exeter who give extra. Anyone can nominate those who work tirelessly to support their communities from today. Nominations for people from Exeter have already started to be made, including:

Greg Mimms from Exeter, nominated by Louise Mimms for supporting the Animals in Distress Centre...

Devon Community Foundation hosted its annual Volunteer of the Year Awards sponsored by Quilter Cheviot, honouring the hard work and achievements of the many volunteers making a real difference in our Devon communities. Irfaan Jhetam from Hikmat Devon was awarded the Bringing People Together Volunteer of the Year Award sponsored by Cathedral Appointments.

Hikmat Devon, which has its own allotment in Exeter, seeks to address the issues of health inequalities, as well as to tackle the issue of social isolation faced by many people from Black and Minority Ethnic communities. Group...

Devon and Cornwall Police want to ensure that Hallowe'en is a happy and safe time for everyone, whether young or old.

If you are going trick or treating this Halloween we want you to have fun and be safe but remember not everyone wants you to call at their home.

The ‘Sorry, No Trick, No Treat, No Thanks’ campaign encourages members of the public who do not want to be bothered by trick-or-treaters to download and print this poster and place it in the front door or window of their homes.

Crime Reduction Team Leader, Bob Bunney said: “In recent years we have seen an...