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On Friday 1 August work begins to alter the entrance to the Harbour Road car park in Seaton in preparation for the start of the building of the £4m visitor centre, Seaton Jurassic.

The car park will remain open using the existing entrance until Sunday 31 August to allow for this year’s Seaton carnival and funfair. A compound to house the site offices of the contractors will be created on the Tramway side of the car park from 15 August.

Councillor Ian Thomas, East Devon District’s Council’s cabinet member for economy and chair of the Seaton Regeneration Board said: “This is...

A new book, Jerusalem Unbound, plots the history and examines the underlying factors that make a peace agreement between Israel and the Palestinians so difficult.

Written by Professor Mick Dumper, a University of Exeter politics expert with over 25 years of experience of Jerusalem, the book explores why religious property in ethnically mixed cities attract conflict and argues that holy sites are particularly difficult in peace negotiations as they cannot be exchanged or traded like other properties. It also compares Jerusalem with other divided cities like Belfast and Beirut and...

Year 4 students from South Tawton School in South Zeal got to experience what it feels like to fly a Boeing 737-800 aircraft during a fun-filled morning at the newly launched Virtual Jet Centre located at the Xpressway Business Park in Chudleigh, just outside Exeter.

The Virtual Jet Centre offers ‘Fear of Flying’ courses, family experience days and pilot and cabin crew training from its state-of-the-art centre, which opened its doors in May, 2014.

Ceri Hoggins, Year 4 teacher at South Tawton School, comments: “The children work towards gaining points for good behavior...

East Devon District Council has announced that the long-awaited play area at Cranbrook is now open for the serious business of kids having fun.

There will be no official opening at present, as there is still quite a bit of cosmetic work to do on the site – which will be completed later in the year by the contractors working for the consortium of house builders at Cranbrook.

Some parts of the play area have been roped off to allow grass seed to take a hold and make the site look more attractive. Other parts of the site need to be seeded, but it is the wrong time of year for...