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With only 6 short weeks to go until Cancer Research UK’s Race for Life at Westpoint Exeter, women across Devon are being encouraged to jump into their training shoes and sign up for this year’s event! This week’s sunny evenings are the perfect time to begin training ahead of the 5k or brand new 10k race on Sunday 27th July.

Taking part in Race for Life at Westpoint Arena is a great way for women of all shapes and sizes to enjoy the outdoors and get a little more active as they prepare for their event.

Committing to take part, and encouraging their mums, grans, daughters,...

The views of students and young adults will play an important role in the battle to cut alcohol related crime and misuse in Devon and Cornwall. It’s a top priority for Police and Crime Commissioner Tony Hogg. “There is no easy answer, but we need to initiate cultural change in our cities, towns and villages. We all need to ask ourselves what kind of place we want to live in? Being drunk is no excuse for behaving badly“ said Mr Hogg. “The cost to our society, not just in policing terms, is massive. It’s unsustainable.” A major survey is underway by Mr Hogg’s office at many local events this...

Devon County Council is to stop providing direct residential care for older people in most of its homes so it can help more elderly people live independently at home or in supported accommodation, and in other residential homes.

Half of the county’s day centres will close with the rest being retained, supporting the most vulnerable and people with disabilities.

Devon already buys 90 per cent of the residential home places it needs from the independent and private sectors.

But it spends nearly 30 per cent of its £70 million residential care budget on providing places...

A prime-time French TV show is filming an historic hard hat diver at Living Coasts in Torquay on Saturday.

Ray Ives, from Plymouth, is well-known in diving circles. The retired commercial diver, aged 77, previously went diving with the penguins to mark Living Coasts’ tenth birthday in 2013.

He will be using an old diving suit dating from the 1900s and a heavy brass helmet. Hand-driven pumps will feed air to him down a hose. He will clean the underwater viewing windows and hopefully interact with the penguins.

Thalassa is one of the long-running and most popular...