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A group campaigning for better travel solutions in the south west areas of Exeter is calling on local councils to review their current plans for transport provision across Alphington, Marsh Barton, Cowick and the 3,000 homes due to be built on the Alphington/Exminster edges of the city.

CWEST – Campaign for South West Exeter Smarter Travel - believes that there should be better provision for cycling and walking and that the proposed Alphington park and ride scheme is an expensive white elephant.

CWEST, formed a year ago, has been gathering information about what current...

From tomorrow (1 April) a new service will introduce a significant change in victim care in Devon and Cornwall (IoS), with the establishment of a police-based victim care unit (VCU) and a network of support service providers.

Rosie, a sexual abuse survivor, who lives in Cornwall, said: “When I heard about the new victim hub it actually made me smile. To be able to put the power back into the victims lives, taken away from them through whatever’s happened, is such a magnificent step into recovery. I feel if it happens sooner in their journey, rather than later, what we will end up...

The challenges faced by blind and partially sighted people in busy city centres will come under the spotlight in Exeter this week.

Tracy Wilson and her guide dog Mardle will take leading councillors and key officers on a tour around Exeter city centre on Wednesday (1 April ) to demonstrate the difficulties faced by those who have sight difficulties in an urban environment.

Tracy, who is the Eye Clinic Liaison Officer at the West of England Eye Unit at the RD&E Hospital, said: "Every day blind and partially sighted people face real challenges navigating streets that most...

An East Devon heathland is being nursed back to health thanks to the work of a leading local wildlife charity.

Clayhidon Turbary nature reserve sits in the heart of the Blackdown Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. Its 34 acres are made up of heathland, marshy areas and wet woodland – a series of landscape types that were once common but which have disappeared from much of the English countryside in recent decades.

Clayhidon Turbary was once used by local people who grazed their cattle there and who also cut peat from the site to use as fuel to heat their homes....