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THE Northern Devon Healthcare NHS Trust has been highly commended for the second year in a row for the success of its apprenticeship scheme, which continues to bring significant benefits for learners and the organisation.

Two of its apprentices, Mandy Harper and Rhian Carruthers, have also received awards for their achievements.

The Trust was successful in the Apprentice of the Year Awards run by Education + Training Skills (ETS), a specialist provider of work-based learning across the South West.

The Trust was highly commended in the Large Employer of the Year...

Update: 4pm 9 May 2015 - Police have reported that Clay Bamford has been found safe and well.

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Police are appealing to the public to help them locate Clay Bamford who has been missing from Paignton since Monday 4th May.

14-year-old Clay has been known to have visited Exeter, Plymouth and most recently Cornwall.

Clay is described as white male, slim, 6ft, short dark brown hair with hazel eyes. Last believed to be wearing a light grey hoody, dark grey jeans, trainers, a grey baseball cap, grey Bob Marley t-shirt with a red, green and yellow...

Conservative Hugo Swire has been re-elected by 25,401 votes as the MP for East Devon – with a majority of 12,261. This is Hugo Swire’s fourth Parliamentary victory – he first became MP in June 2001, and was subsequently re-elected in May 2005 and May 2010. It is also his largest majority since 2001.

The parliamentary election results for East Devon were declared by the Acting Returning Officer, Mark Williams, at East Devon District Council’s offices at Knowle in Sidmouth at 7.15 a.m. today (Friday 8 May).

The turnout for the election was 71.7%, slightly down from 2010 when...

The short-listed entries for this year’s Devon Farm Business Awards paint a fascinating picture of a dynamic industry being led by the younger generation through a process of rapid development and change.

Most of the potential winners are in their 20s and 30s. Many of the businesses are run by husband and wife teams as equal partners. And they are all, without exception, innovators, whether that be in new techniques, new products or new ways of doing business.

One of the strongest themes among the short-listed entries is that of younger farmers, coming back to the family...