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Taste East Devon Festival Returns

A Celebration of Food, Drink & Local Delights from 13th – 21st September 2025

Get ready to tuck into one of the region’s most exciting culinary celebrations as the Taste East Devon Festival returns for its fifth year from 13th to 21st September 2025 ! From vineyard tours and foraging feasts to artisan tastings and family-friendly days out, this 9-day festival promises to showcase the very best of East Devon’s food, drink, and hospitality.

With a packed programme of unique events hosted by some of the area’s most iconic producers, chefs, and venues, Taste East Devon brings...

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Exeter’s HMS Defender to exercise Freedom of the City

Members of HMS Defender’s ship’s company will exercise their Freedom of the City of Exeter for the first time this weekend.

The state-of-the-art Type 45 destroyer is affiliated with the Devon city and has been enormously honoured to have Freedom conferred on her.

The 200 men and women who serve on board Defender will take part in a ceremony in the High Street, when the The Right Worshipful the Lord Mayor of Exeter, Councillor Rachel Lyons, will formally confer the Freedom of the City on the ship’s company.

The crew will then take to the streets of the historic city...

Celebrate British Sign Language

Exeter Royal Academy for Deaf Education, SignUp BSL and Deafinite Interpreters are calling for everyone to support an online campaign for Sign Language Week from 17 – 21 March. The exciting BSL (British Sign Language) Celebration Week campaign, running across social media, encourages people to learn how to introduce themselves and communicate their name in sign language and then film it and share it online. The organisations have produced a video guide for everyone to be able to take part in celebrating British Sign Language and want people to use the hashtag #loveBSL to get as many people...

Missing teenager found safe

Update 22:00 11/3/14 - After missing for over 30 hours missing teenager for safe and well

A 14-year-old girl who went missing from her Exmouth home on Monday morning has been found safe and well. Police have been carrying extensive searches for Harriet Melbourne who left for school on Monday but did not arrive. Harriet was located safe and well in Penzance this evening. Police would like to thank the public for their assistance in this matter.

Council to re-consider Children's Homes closure

Councillors at Devon County Council have voted in favour of reconsidering the decision to close the authority's three children’s homes at a special scrutiny meeting. The now over-turned decision to close the homes was made following a review which concluded last month and will be discussed at a council meeting on Wdnesday.

The review of the homes, launched in January, was started in light of new regulations from Ofsted which indicated that any children’s home with more than three places will be unable to qualify for a good or better rating in future. An alternative proposal for the...

Stagecoach extends special fares for Dawlish

Stagecoach South West has confirmed that it would, until further notice, continue with the special fare arrangements originally put in place to help those affected by the closure of the Dawlish railway line.

This means customers travelling on its Hop2, Hop11 and B bus services will continue to benefit from reduced single and return fares of up to 50% for all stops along the coast between Starcross and Newton Abbot.

The changes to the operator’s multi-journey ticket zones will also remain in place, namely the Exeter Plus Dayrider and Megarider zone extension to Dawlish and...

New Speed Limits on A380

The South Devon Link Road project team has announced the introduction of a new speed limit on the Penn Inn area of the construction site.

New speed limits will come into effect on the A380 Besigheim Way, north of the Penn Inn roundabout, from Friday (14 March).

The new limits are being set to ensure the safety of road users and South Devon Link Road employees working on the new north approach to the Penn Inn flyover.

From Friday, northbound vehicles leaving the roundabout towards Exeter will enter a new 30mph zone alongside the works area of contractors Galliford...

Waste Free Lunch Week at Devon schools

Primary school pupils across Devon have been bravely examining the rubbish produced by their packed lunches over the past few weeks in readiness of the County-wide “Waste Free Lunch” week campaign from 10th – 14th March.

Donning gloves, and with strong stomachs, children have been weighing waste, sorting snacks and picking out packaging from the mountain of rubbish generated every day after lunch time.

The aim of the campaign is to reduce the amount of waste produced by packed lunches in schools, and to share innovative ideas for packing “waste free” lunches with pupils,...

M&S volunteers to tackle beach litter

Marks & Spencer (M&S) Exeter employees are descending on Exmouth beach to free it from litter as part of this year’s Big Beach Clean-up. Taking place on Friday 25 April from 10am, the Big Beach Clean-up is hosted in partnership with the Marine Conservation Society (MCS) and invites local residents to join in the litter picking activities. Customers that register for the event in advance at www.mcsuk.org/foreverfish will also receive a money-off M&S voucher on the day of their beach clean. 95 UK beaches and 45 canals across the UK will be targeted between 24 and 30 April with...

Exeter Ready for Cup Final Fever

Businesses in Exeter are gearing up to welcome thousands of rugby fans at the weekend for the LV Cup Final at Sandy Park.

With Exeter Chiefs beating Bath 19-22 in yesterday’s hotly contested semi-final, the city is set for a rugby invasion, with over 10,000 supporters of the Chiefs and Northampton Saints expected for Sunday’s cup final clash. The Saints eased past Saracens 26-7 in the competition’s other semi-final.

Derek Phillips, Chairman of the Heart of Devon Tourism Partnership, is looking forward to welcoming Northampton fans, and is confident that the event, the first...

Devon's County Show's double celebrations

The Devon County Agricultural Association, organisers of the Devon County Show, the county’s largest annual event, is gearing up for a double celebration this year.

2014 will be the 119th County Show, an annual celebration of farming, food and the countryside, and it is 25 years since the Association took ownership of the Westpoint showground, which is home to the County Show and its wholly owned subsidiary company - Westpoint Centre (Devon).

Tickets are on sale now for the Devon County Show - known as the South West’s agricultural showing season curtain-raiser, as well as...

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Taste East Devon Festival Returns

Exeter’s HMS Defender to exercise Freedom of the City

Celebrate British Sign Language

Missing teenager found safe

Council to re-consider Children's Homes closure

Stagecoach extends special fares for Dawlish

New Speed Limits on A380

Waste Free Lunch Week at Devon schools

M&S volunteers to tackle beach litter

Exeter Ready for Cup Final Fever

Devon's County Show's double celebrations

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