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Devon’s residents are being urged to hang on to their broken possessions over the Christmas holidays so they can be fixed at what promises will be the largest repair café ever held.

The Big Fix 2020 will be held on Saturday February 15, and will see up to 109 repair cafes across the UK being held simultaneously.

The national event is being coordinated by Devon County Council and follows the success of The Big Fix last year when volunteers broke the record for the number of items repaired at a single repair café.

Both events are examples of Devon County Council’s...

Modern dating is a complicated feat that involves a lot of trials and errors before landing on the most compatible relationship. The quest for finding your soulmate isn’t easy. It witnessed a lot of ups and downs and can take a toll on your mental health. One such difficult step is moving on. After having spent a lot of time with your potential partner, you realize that it just isn’t working for you. However, it gets difficult to break up and even harder to move on because you still feel attached.

If you’ve been through an ordeal within your relationship, you simply cannot imagine...

Ongoing repairs to Shaldon Bridge are expected to be completed during a final overnight closure planned early in the New Year. The bridge is due to be closed from 11:30pm on Wednesday 8 January to carry out the repairs to the structure. The bridge is scheduled to re-open by 7am the following morning (Thursday 9 January). The scheme is repairing holes in the concrete foundations of two bridge piers. Concrete will be poured into the foundations during the overnight closure, with final preparations being carried out after the Christmas break. The work will protect the concrete piles and...

A poignant and timely story that addresses the current global refugee crisis, written by a University of Exeter academic, has been named as one of the “Best Children’s Books of the Year” by Time Magazine.

Lubna and Pebble, by Dr Wendy O’Shea-Meddour, is being used across the world to build empathy skills and open difficult conversations about what it means to be a refugee.

In this book, illustrated by Daniel Egneus, the main character Lubna lands in a “world of tents” and tells her best friend, a pebble, everything about her “home” and “the war”. Even in desperate times,...