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This Exeter family together hope to raise £50,000 by taking on Exeter’s Great West Run in a bid to help four-year-old Sophie Joy walk unaided for the first time.

The team is made up of Sophie's father Daniel Case, Deborah Down, grandmother and Jade Down, auntie.

Sophie has battled Spastic Diplegia Cerebral Palsy from a very young age, and despite the tireless efforts of her parents to support her with as much physio at home, she will only see her condition improve significantly with an operation called Selective Dorsal Rhizotomy.

Sophie’s mother Gemma was fortunate...

East Devon District Council is carrying out checks to make sure that residents who currently receive a Council Tax reduction are still entitled to it.

Council Tax payers who receive a 25 per cent discount on their bill as single occupancy residents will be reviewed to make sure the reductions are correct. The checks, using sophisticated data-matching technology, form part of the council’s measures to prevent and detect fraud and protect the public purse.

Over the next couple of months the council will check around 3,000 households to see if the person is genuinely living...

East Devon District Council is pleased to report that so far this year most dog owners are obeying the various dog control measures on beaches.

Everyone wants to enjoy the beach, particularly in warm summer weather, and it is quite possible for all users to get along together if everyone is considerate to others.

Details of the Dog Ban areas are shown on the large signs that are easy to see at the main entrances to the beaches, and also by checking the East Devon website. Regardless of any official restrictions, all dog owners must always behave responsibly with their dogs...

Four men from Avon have been sentenced to more than 36 years in total for the robbery at the Golden Sands Holiday complex in Dawlish in August last year.

The robbery took place in the early hours of 27 August 2013.

Men wearing balaclavas forced members of staff to open a safe containing a large quantity of cash.

One member of staff sustained a fractured shoulder and arm, and deep lacerations to various positions on his body, after being assaulted with an axe and a hammer.

Craig Lockyer, 28, Karl Daniels, 38, and Dean Smart, 27, pleaded guilty to robbery and...