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Traders, businesses and community organisations who want to make the most of social media are invited to the Teignmouth and Dawlish Social Media Cafe on Monday 11 November being held at Ugly Duckling Cafe, 2 The Lawn, Dawlish from 5pm until 7pm.

The Social Media Cafe is the brainchild of Mandy Pearse, Director of local firm Seashell Communications and Emma Kay, Teignmouth and Dawlish Town Centre Development Manager. It provides a free drop-in event where people can pick up tips and hints on using social media, ask questions, meet other like-minded people over a cup of coffee....

This morning the RSPB sent a formal letter of complaint to the bosses Devon NHS concerning the willful destruction of land near Exminster.

Hillcrest is home to a population of Cirl Buntings, a bird so nationally important and rare to find. The RSPB, a charity in support of finding nature a home, believe this is a deliberate opportunity to reduce the nature conservation value of the land which in turn will gain planning permission for new development.

Restricted to the South Devon coastal land, the species of the Cirl Bunting became almost extinct in the late 1980’s in the...

The Arctic 30 who were arrested after a Greenpeace protest off the Russian coast are going to be moved.

Lawyers for the 28 activists and two journalists were only informed when visiting them on Monday.

Six Britons including three people with ties to Devon are among those facing charges of hooliganism for their part in the oil drilling demonstration in September. They were previously held in Murmansk but it is suspected they will be moved to another jail in St. Petersburg. There are concerns that moving to the jail the conditions the activists and journalists are under...

For the first time, the Knight Frank partnership created an annual Knight Frank Day of Giving, which saw all Knight Frank departments and offices around the UK raising money for five chosen charities in October 2013.

The whole Exeter office decided to do what they believe is the first ever “West Country Three Peaks Challenge” where they would walk/climb the 3 highest peaks in their patch within 7 hours. Small in comparison to the 3 highest peaks in the UK, perhaps, but nevertheless a good local challenge. The peaks chosen were:

Brown Willy, Bodmin Moor, Cornwall 1,378 ft...