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From homelessness to hospitality: Café EX4, Exeter’s new lifeline

Five years ago, Dan was homeless, living in supported accommodation, and struggling with addiction and mental health challenges.

This month — the same week The Salvation Army in Exeter Temple celebrates its 145th anniversary — Dan stood alongside Majors Carl and Elizabeth Di-Palma who lead the church and charity in Exeter, to watch celebrity chef Michael Caines (MBE DL), cut the ribbon on Café EX4, a community café run by people with lived experience of homelessness, addiction, and neurodiversity.

Café EX4 operates under a licence agreement, making the café a tenant of...

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Lorry fire causes A30 delays

The Fire Service received several calls reporting a lorry on fire before or just after the Whiddon Down junction on the A30 Westbound.

One fire appliance from Danes Castle Exeter, one fire appliance from Middlemoor Exeter and the water foam carrier from Torquay attended.

Fire crews confirmed one large goods vehicle with an empty trailer well alight and severely damaged by fire on the public highway.

The blaze was extinguished by fire crews using four breathing apparatus wearers and two hose reel jets, fire crews utilised foam to aid extinguishment. The cause of the...

Police crackdown on drink and drug driving

Throughout December Devon and Cornwall Police officers will be turning up the heat on drink and drug driving.

Any drivers involved in a collision and any motorists whose driving may lead police to suspect they are under the influence of drink will be breathalysed. If drug driving is suspected they may have to undergo a roadside sobriety test.

Roads Policing Inspector Richard Pryce said: “Drink driving cannot be tolerated at any time of the year but we will ensure very close attention is being paid over the festive period. Our message is clear and simple: don’t drink and...

18 lawyers went to Mo…

Eighteen members of staff from one of Devon and Cornwall’s leading law firms have been looking a little hairier this month, as they take part in Movember. As well as growing some spectacular moustaches, the team from Stephens Scown LLP has raised over £1,000.

The Movember Foundation is the leading global organisation committed to changing the face of men’s health. Movember is an annual event with a simple idea: to grow a moustache in November and raise money and awareness of men’s health, specifically prostate and testicular cancer. Movember has raised £346 million globally to date...

Stagecoach confirms Boxing Day buses

Stagecoach South West confirmed today that it will be operating Boxing Day bus services on key routes across Exeter, East Devon and Torbay.

For anyone wishing to travel into and around Exeter the following services will be running:

Red Park & Ride will run a Sunday timetable, with the last bus from Honiton Road at 1718 and the last bus from the city centre at 1736. Buses will show ‘M2’ on the destination blind to serve all stops along the Pinhoe Road route
Route ‘A’ will run a Sunday timetable. The last bus from Alphington will be at 1721, the last bus

Major flood defence scheme announced

Homes in Exeter, Dawlish Warren and Exmouth will be better protected from floods thanks to an unprecedented six-year £2.3 billion flood defence programme, benefitting Devon and Cornwall to the tune of £86m, which has been announced by the government today. A new flood defence scheme in Perranporth, just one of 163 schemes across the South West getting the green light today, is worth £825,000 and will protect over 200 properties in the area. Other schemes funded in the first two year ‘construction’ phase in the South West include: Dawlish Warren and Exmouth Beach management scheme, designed...

Rolle Centre development moves forward

Rolle Exmouth Limited (REL) has been awarded a grant of £99,000 by Social Investment Business (SIB) Group from the Community Ownership and Management of Assets Feasibility Fund to develop plans for the future of the Rolle Centre site.

The seven acre site remains the property of Plymouth University, but has been unoccupied since the University relocated its Faculty of Education from Exmouth to its main Plymouth Campus in 2008. The site is located just half a mile from the town centre and the sea with views over the Exe Estuary and Haldon Hills.

The vision for REL is to...

Simon Bates to host Good Morning Devon

BBC Radio Devon today (2 December) announced Simon Bates as its new Breakfast presenter, his new show will start on Monday 12 January 2015. Simon, who lives on a farm near Tiverton, mid-Devon, is joining BBC Radio Devon to present a mix of news and music each weekday morning between 7.00 and 10.00am.

As ever, quality local journalism will be the cornerstone of the new programme, and Simon Bates will use his interviewing skills honed over decades of broadcasting to interview the day’s newsmakers. Simon will also be out broadcasting from around the county and hearing from BBC Radio...

Exeter clinic Saves Face with accreditation

An Exeter dentist has become one of the first in the UK to become officially registered as 'safe and qualified' to carry out aesthetic treatments like anti-wrinkle injections.

Pradnya Apte, Clinical Director at revitalise rejuvenate clinic in Exeter, is one of the first aesthetic practitioners in the country to make it onto the Save Face register.

The register, which is the first of its kind in the industry, visits and assesses practitioners to check they are qualified and safe to carry out non-surgical cosmetic treatments. It shares the information with the public to give...

Appeal for witnesses to A30 collision

Police are appealing for information following a collision on the A30 near Whiddon Down which happened on Monday (1 December) just after 1pm.

A silver coloured Landrover Discovery, which was travelling towards Exeter near Tedburn St Mary, left the carriageway and rolled over causing substantial damage to the vehicle.

Two women and two one-year-old children were in the vehicle at the time. The occupants were all taken to hospital but escaped with minor injuries.

Police are trying to trace the driver of a silver coloured Mercedes estate which was seen driving in the...

90,000 kids homeless this Christmas

A shocking 90,000 children in Britain – the equivalent of three in every school – will spend this Christmas homeless, government figures show.

With their helpline already stretched to breaking point, Shelter are launching an emergency appeal in response.

The figures also show that the number of homeless families living in B&Bs has almost doubled in three years. This is particularly alarming following the shocking results of a Shelter investigation into living conditions in B&Bs.

The in-depth investigation into 20 families found that well over half felt...

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From homelessness to hospitality: Café EX4, Exeter’s new lifeline

Lorry fire causes A30 delays

Police crackdown on drink and drug driving

18 lawyers went to Mo…

Stagecoach confirms Boxing Day buses

Major flood defence scheme announced

Rolle Centre development moves forward

Simon Bates to host Good Morning Devon

Exeter clinic Saves Face with accreditation

Appeal for witnesses to A30 collision

90,000 kids homeless this Christmas

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