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East Devon District Council is supporting local shops over Christmas with a range of special car park deals for motorists, including a chance to win a ‘Golden Ticket’ offering three months’ free parking.

This is on top of a decision by EDDC’s Cabinet last week to freeze the basic hourly pay and display parking charges for the fourth consecutive year.

Here are EDDC’s Christmas 2013 Parking Offers in full:

All Pay and Display car parks, Saturday 7 December 2013

This is “Small Business Saturday” and customers are being encouraged to park in any East Devon car...

Adrian Hemmings, Partner at Simpkins Edwards, comments on today's Autumn Statement.

“My overall impression is that this Autumn Statement has been, unsurprisingly, a palate cleanser for the main course in 12 month’s time or during the 2015 budget. It was politically driven, with the current Government not wanting to give away any headline-grabbing policies this far in advance of the next general election, which would give the opposition too much time to respond.

“The figures on the economy are generally encouraging, which is probably a good enough headline in itself to...

Many of the staff at Stagecoach’s Exeter depot have been looking more hirsute than usual.

Almost fifty drivers, engineers and managers gave up their razors for a month in response to the rallying call from drivers Martin and Karen Milton to ‘grow a mo’ for Movember.

In just a decade ‘Movember’ has grown from a few friends in Australia raising awareness of men’s health issues to a global phenomenon in which over 3 million men and women have participated, raising millions of pounds for men’s mental health, testicular and prostate cancer research.

All Stagecoach staff...

Thousands of people were evacuated Britain was hit by a massive tidal surge.

It comes after a powerful Atlantic storm, packing winds of up to 140mph, claimed two lives and caused widespread disruption.

In some places along the east coast, sea levels have been higher than they were during the devastating floods of 1953.

The Environment Agency has more than 129 flood warnings and alerts in place across England and Wales, including 23 severe flood warnings which are only issued when flooding poses a "significant threat to life".

John Curtin, the Environment...