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Residents and businesses are invited to a self-build event hosted by Teignbridge District Council on Friday 13 June at Exeter Racecourse.

The ‘self build call to action’ afternoon aims to help people get more information about how they go about building their own home. Guests can network, get advice from those in the know, look at various stands and exhibits and get involved with a question and answer session.

It comes at a good time as Teignbridge has formally adopted Plan Teignbridge, its comprehensive long-term blueprint for housing, employment and other development. The...

This year’s summer holiday is set to be the cycling adventure of a lifetime for Dwight Wood and his 11 year old son Lewis. The London-based pair are planning a 60 day ‘round UK coast tour’ taking in 2,650 miles of spectacular scenery and sights.

Dwight, who is Chairman of the Friends of Wanstead Parklands Preservation Group in East London, is an energetic campaigner for sustainable living and is co-founder of ‘ItDoesTheJob.com’ specialists in lifestyle products for low-energy living.

The bike ride has been planned to demonstrate how easy it is to enjoy a healthy, low carbon...

Staff from Living Coasts, Torquay’s coastal zoo, have led a clean-up of one of Torquay’s beaches.

Twenty-one volunteers joined workers from the charity to pick rubbish from Beacon Cove. But the clean has highlighted the scale of Torbay’s beach litter problem.

The haul included over 200 plastic items, including a bucket and a traffic cone, nearly 300 bits of paper, over 400 shards of glass and 170 pieces of metal, 90 of which were bottle caps. The total weight collected was over 31 kilos.

Clare Rugg, from Living Coasts, explained: “Beacon Cove is the beach on our...

Firefighters from Middlemoor today helped to free a mother and her two children after they had become stuck in their bathroom.

Crews were called to Digby Drive, Middlemoor, Exeter at 9.16am after reports that an occupant had become stuck in their bathroom.

Crews used a ladder to a first floor window to gain access to the bathroom, and used small tools to release them.