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The Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital is urging anyone who has suffered from symptoms of the highly infectious Norovirus bug to stay away from the hospital until they have been free of the symptoms for at least 48 hours. Cases of Norovirus, which causes vomiting and diarrhoea and is more common in the winter months, have been rising at the RD&E over the Christmas and New Year period, placing extra pressure on hospital bed capacity at a very busy time for the hospital. At the current time the hospital has closed Lowman and Okement wards and isolated areas in three other wards – Torridge,...

Devon’s Crealy Great Adventure Park is pleased to announce they will be working in partnership with Radio Exe in 2015 to host its very own radio request show ‘The Crealy Jukebox’.

Every Sunday lunchtime from noon to 2pm, Devon’s Crealy Great Adventure Park’s general manager Josh Haywood will be returning to his roots as a radio presenter, having previously been a presenter on Blackpool’s Radio Wave, Bristol’s Star 107.2 and on Coast Radio in Somerset before joining the Crealy team in 2010.

‘The Crealy Jukebox’, starting on Sunday 11th January 2015 on 107.3FM Radio Exe, will...

School children from Devon and Cornwall were given a hands-on insight into life as a medical student as part of a programme designed to encourage Westcountry youngsters to consider a career in medicine. It comes as a report by the Medical Schools Council highlights the need for Medical Schools to engage with schools to address the fact that most Medicine applicants come from a small minority of schools.

The University of Exeter Medical School hosted 27 children from Helston Community College and Torpoint Community College (Cornwall), Petroc College and Ilfracombe Academy (North...

Fresh measures are being taken by Teignbridge District Council to dissuade pigeons from nesting underneath Teignmouth’s iconic Pier.

Teignbridge District Council, with the support of the owners of Teignmouth Pier, is trialling a bird scarer to deter birds from roosting under the structure where their droppings fall into the sea or the sands below and ultimately end up affecting bathing water quality.

The trial will run from today (Friday 2 January 2015) for a month during daytime hours. It forms part of the Love Your Beach campaign which encourages people to protect the...