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A primary school in Exeter is celebrating after receiving a new set of laptops to help children learn from home.

St Martin’s Church of England Primary School, Cranbrook, has been given £6,600 to buy 20 Chrome Books by housing association LiveWest, so that pupils without access to computers are not disadvantaged.

LiveWest contacted St Martin’s with the generous offer after stepping in to help bridge the educational gap created by lockdown.

The donation, coupled with government funding, means St Martin’s now have enough laptops for all of their children who are...

Users of Devon’s recycling centres are being reminded to treat staff with ‘courtesy and respect’ following reports that key workers at more than one site were verbally abused and threatened over the weekend.

Over the weekend and continuing into this week Devon County Council’s (DCC) Household Waste Recycling Centres (HWRC) are experiencing unprecedented demand, in part due to the good weather.

However, to ensure that sites are not too crowded and to allow social distancing, the number of offloading spaces in each site remains limited.

This has led to delays,...

Young players at Exeter City FC’s Academy will be able to tackle their simultaneous equations, as well as practice their set pieces, thanks to the club’s brand new sponsors.

Numerise, which is an online maths platform from Exeter-based Sparx, the socially-focused learning technology company, has become the new front of shirt sponsor of the Academy’s under 10 and 11 teams.

And the company has generously agreed to provide a log-in to the platform to all the members of the ECFC Academy – a total of 112 boys, aged between 10 and 16.

Arran Pugh, Academy Operations &...

In February 2020 Devon Air Ambulance (DAA) introduced two rapid response Critical Care Cars (CCC) to their fleet. Now, a year on, DAA are celebrating the anniversary of their first mission on 3 March 2020 and highlight the difference they have made to the service and their patients.

Whilst being a helicopter-led emergency service, it’s clear that DAA’s Critical Care Cars have enabled the charity to build resilience and extend their enhanced and critical care service across Devon. Darren Goodwin, Operations Manager at Devon Air Ambulance commented: “As we launched these two new...