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The Museum of Policing in Devon and Cornwall is challenging all creatives to come up with a new visual identity and logo for the charity.

The competition invites the creative minds of Devon, Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly to design a timeless and memorable logo that tells our story, points to our past and inspires future generations to promote and protect the charity’s history and heritage.

Our objectives are to showcase the museum’s rich policing history across Devon and Cornwall, and that is why we are keen to seek ideas and involvement from the counties.

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A warning has been issued over the risk of snow and ice across Devon this evening and people in the county are being advised to take extra care when travelling.

Temperatures have remained low throughout today and while this evening is not forecast to be as cold as last night, the Met Office has issued a Yellow Weather Warning for widespread ice and wintry showers which could cause disruption from 6pm tonight until midday tomorrow.

Road surface temperatures are set to fall as low as -5C this evening and following multiple treatments by Devon County Council’s gritting...

Stagecoach, the country’s biggest bus and coach operator, has launched the search for a team of new graduates to join its UK-wide business from September.

Applications have opened for ten people to join its two-year extensive graduate training programme. Successful applicants will have a valuable opportunity to learn the bus and coach business inside-out, with time spent in operations, engineering, financial, marketing and commercial departments at a range of locations up and down the country from Inverness to Exeter.

The programme is part of Stagecoach’s strategy to...

A redesign of Exeter’s Queen Street has been approved, with previously agreed cycle lanes being scrapped.

Last year, councillors agreed to spend £250,000 constructing a layout similar to the current ‘pop-up’ one, which was installed early in 2021 to help with social distancing and to encourage more walking and cycling.

As part of the agreed scheme, approved by the Exeter highways and traffic orders committee (HATOC), the southern pavement opposite the Royal Albert Memorial Museum (RAMM) was due to be widened with two new cycle lanes either side of a single lane for...