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Representatives of Exeter City Council and Devon County Council will get together next week to look at how best to tackle weeds in the city next year.

Devon County Council is responsible for the upkeep of highways in the city, including the treatment of weeds.

Earlier this year the City Council agreed that it could do this work – the spraying of highways weeds – on their behalf, if they agreed to cover the associated cost.

Unfortunately, Devon County Council was unable to commit to a budget for the works at that time and as a result the weed spraying didn’t proceed...

Parents in the South West fear their children will be locked out of their home towns in future as house prices and rents continue to rise.

According to figures from a new YouGov poll for the National Housing Federation, 72 per cent of English parents are worried about rising rent levels and 81 per cent about rising house prices and the impact of both on the next generation. Of those in the South West, over a third (39 per cent) believe it is unlikely their youngsters will have the chance to rent or buy a home in the area where they have grown up.

This comes as figures from...

The highest profile phase of the South Devon Link Road project to date is set to begin over the next week, as the first beams for the Penn Inn flyover arrive.

Devon County Council and Torbay Council, along with Galliford Try - the contractors responsible for constructing the road – have announced that work on constructing the landmark structure is due to begin.

The beams will be delivered just before the second anniversary of the turf cutting, which took place in October 2012.

The beams are scheduled to begin arriving under escort on 23rd September, when they will...

Police are appealing for information after a woman was robbed by two men in Exmouth.

At approximately 8pm on Sunday 14 September, a woman was robbed by two men on Moorfield Road, Exmouth. During the incident one man attempted to grab a mobile phone from the victims hand, whilst the other pulled her handbag from her shoulder. The suspects ran in the direction of Phear Park and Withycombe Village Road, Exmouth. One suspect is a white 5ft 10ins, has a slim muscular build, aged between 20 and 30 years old, shaven mousey hair with glasses. He was wearing a dark sweatshirt type jumper,...