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A £9.1 million programme to restore some of the roads damaged during the wettest winter on record has been announced by Devon County Council.

The County Council has developed a programme of almost 400 repair schemes, using the Pothole Repair Funding that Devon received from central Government, to improve the surface or drainage resilience of more than 80 miles (129 km) of roads in the county.

This is in addition to repair work which started in Devon in June using the £7 million Severe Weather Recovery funding, in response to the damage caused over the winter months to the...

An online booking system has been introduced by the Sandy Park events team: www.sandypark.co.uk/book Designed to streamline the booking process for events held at the award-winning venue, the booking system allows clients to book onto events and pay instantly via credit or debit card. The system can be used to book onto the first networking event in the redeveloped Sandy Park, the b2b Business Breakfast on 19 September.

This event features guest speaker Jon Paul Hedge, who was recently appointed editor of the Exeter Express & Echo. Mr Hedge will be discussing ‘Disruption to...

A team led by researchers at the University of Exeter Medical School and King’s College London has uncovered some of the strongest evidence yet that epigenetic changes in the brain play a role in Alzheimer’s disease.

Epigenetic changes affect the expression or activity of genes without changing the underlying DNA sequence and are believed to be one mechanism by which the environment can interact with the genome. Importantly, epigenetic changes are potentially reversible and may therefore provide targets for the development of new therapies.

Globally, more than 26 million...

Devon and Cornwall Police are fully prepared to prevent and disrupt any illegal rave activity across the two counties this coming August Bank Holiday. In summer months the counties can be vulnerable to illegal incursions and raves, such as the problems encountered at Bellever and Davidstowe in the past. Each year police have to remove a number of illegal raves which diverts valuable resources away from regular policing and has a damaging impact on the affected communities and the local environment. As part of Operation Derig, beginning on Friday 22nd August, dedicated officers will patrol...