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Creative school children have helped make award-winning Decoy Country Park an even better place to be.

Pupils from Decoy Primary School joined up Teignbridge District Council's Countryside Ranger Simon Cunningham and Devon Wildlife Trust to create illustrations and poetry for the handrails of a new boardwalk at Magazine Pond. It has new ramped access for pushchairs and wheelchairs so people have easy and safe access to the water’s edge.

The boardwalk is made from English oak and replaces a previous one in softwood which had come to the end of its life.

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The Creation Station Exeter & Mid Devon currently provides creative children's art and craft classes at various venues in and around Exeter. Their Little Explorer sessions for 1 – 5 year olds focus not on the end product, but on the journey of discovery the children experience whilst making their creations.

With the help of RAMM their journey of discovery is about to be expanded to a whole new level. Over six weeks The Creation Station will be looking at several of the collections held at RAMM, alongside Exeter’s youngest museum visitors. Together they will be exploring...

A road traffic collision on the A38 at Wrangaton, near Ivybridge, Devon resulted in a non fatal casualty.

The incident, involving a single vehicle, occured at 1.15pm on Saturday 4th January.

Appliances from Devon and Somerset Fire and Rescue Service were called to the incident by the police.

1 fire appliance from Buckfastleigh, 1 from Ivybridge and 1 from Ashburton were mobilised to the incident.

On arrival, crews found this to be a road traffic collision involving a single vehicle, which had left the highway and gone through a hedge. All persons were free...

A 35-year-old man has been charged with murder following the death of a man in Plymouth on Friday 3rd January 2014.

Samuel Watts of King Street, Plymouth, will appear at Plymouth Magistrates Court on Monday 6th January after being charged with the offence on Saturday 4th January.

Police and ambulance were called to a property in King Street, Stonehouse, after concerns for welfare for a man inside. On entering the property they found a 38-year-old man who had sustained a serious stab wound. He was treated by ambulance staff but was pronounced deceased at the scene.

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