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With the 2019 Wimbledon Tennis Championships now over and the long queues for strawberries and cream now sated, it is exciting to discover that one of the “family members” living at Hatherleigh Nursing Home, is 81-year-old Rosie Jewell. Rosie is a former tennis player who played in the under eighteens team at the Wimbledon Championships in 1954, getting through to the quarter-finals. Jewell is her married name, but in 1954 she was playing under her maiden name, Rosemary Wooller.

Rosie has lived at the 53-bed home near Okehampton, for the last two and a half years and they knew that...

Local transport author and Stagecoach South West Commercial Officer, Pat Avery, has written a book marking the centenary of The Devon General Omnibus and Touring Company Ltd one of the best loved and remembered public transport operators in the country.

The 96 page all colour hardback book ‘100 Years of Buses in Devon’ has been released to commemorate the centenary of The Devon General, and showcases how bus travel has changed and developed over the years.

All profits from book sales will go to local South West based charity Westbank Community Health and Care, in Exminster...

Exeter College students are celebrating after achieving the best International Baccalaureate (IB) results in the college’s history.

This year the prestigious IB saw a 100% pass rate, with almost a third of students (32%) achieving 40+ points. This is the equivalent of five A Levels at A/A*, putting them in the top five to ten per cent of students in the entire world. Two candidates achieved an incredible 43 out of 45 possible points.

Further to this, more than 50% of the students achieved 38 points or higher which is the tariff requested for a place at the University of...

East Devon’s Environmental Health team is strongly advising dog and cat owners who are looking to use boarding facilities over the Summer to check out the premises carefully, go on a tour of where their animals are going to stay and ensure the facility has a current licence. The Environmental Health team has been working hard to help people and businesses who care for dogs and cats to comply with new animal welfare legislation which came into force on 1st October 2018. The legislation has been brought in to improve standards in relation to the welfare of animals, for example dogs and cats...