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Devon and Cornwall Poilce officers are joining their colleagues across Europe in a week-long speed enforcement operation.

During the campaign, co-ordinated by the European Traffic Police Network (TISPOL), officers will use a number of speed detection methods across all types of road.

The purpose of the operation is to raise awareness of the dangers of speeding, and to remind drivers of the benefits for all road users of driving at speeds that are both legal and appropriate.

“We urge all drivers to challenge their own attitude to speeding,” says TISPOL President Koen...

A group of volunteers from Culm Valley Young Farmers Club are donning their work gear for a day of hard graft at one of Devon’s rural communities.

The group have kindly agreed to help Devon County Council’s Public Rights of Way team carry out some important repair and restoration work at the footbridge over the River Culm in Hemyock.

The bridge near Hemyock has taken a battering over the past two years and is in danger of becoming permanently surrounded by water.

Getting stone to site needs to be moved to the location by buckets and wheelbarrows and that’s where the...

Magpies are not attracted to shiny objects and don’t routinely steal small trinkets such as jewellery, according to a new study.

In European culture, it is widely accepted that magpies (Pica pica) are the pilferers of the bird kingdom, unconditionally attracted to sparkly things and prone to pinching them for their nests, almost as a compulsion.

But psychologists at the Centre for Research in Animal Behaviour (CRAB) at the University of Exeter are now countering this folklore, having shown that the species is actually frightened of new and unfamiliar objects, rather than...

On Saturday 9 August it was time to pop the popcorn for the eagerly anticipated premiere at Exeter Phoenix of The Sqweakening – the cinematic product of the inaugural Summer Film School.

Working alongside a professional crew, 30 children aged between eight and 12 spent five action-packed days creating the original short film, a comedy-horror about a rampant were-hamster. The kids loved it so much that they demanded it be played twice!

A joint partnership between Exeter-based film production company Colourburn and Exeter Phoenix, Summer Film School gave attendees the...