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RGB Building Supplies has selected Exeter-based Constructing Futures Devon as a finalist in its 30th Well Built Community Fund and it’s now down to a public vote to see if it’s chosen to receive £1,000 worth of building materials.

As part of Devon Communities Together, it has been set up to train young people in the construction industry. Trainees gain first-hand experience by working on properties purchased by Constructing Futures Devon. Once complete, the properties are sold on and a new one purchased, ensuring there are always projects for learning.

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A resident at RMBI Care Co. Home Cadogan Court in Exeter has celebrated her 100th birthday.

Joan Dyer enjoyed a party at the Home with her family, residents and staff. She was very surprised and delighted to receive an official birthday card from Her Majesty the Queen.

She was presented with a birthday cake made by the Home’s chef Rosie, whilst everyone sang Happy Birthday!

After a special lunch with her daughter Joanne, Joan enjoyed listening to Exeter harpist Luc Walpot and sipped some of her favourite prosecco. Joan had requested that Luc play on her birthday as...

Can you help British Transport Police officers trace wanted woman Nicole McGregor? The 29-year-old of The Lindfield, Coventry, failed to appear at Exeter Magistrates’ Court on 2 July after being charged with possession of an offensive weapon and fare evasion. The charges relate to an offence at Exeter St David’s station on 22 April. Another man was arrested in connection to this incident and has since been handed a custodial sentence. Enquiries by officers suggest that McGregor has connections in the Leamington Spa and Coventry areas, as well as the Exmouth area of Devon. McGregor is white...

More “intensive” beekeeping does not raise the risk of diseases that harm or kill the insects, new research suggests.

Intensive agriculture – where animals or plants are kept crowded together in very high densities – is thought to result in higher rates of disease spreading.

But researchers from the University of Exeter and the University of California, Berkeley found this is not the case for honeybees.

Their study modelled the spread of multiple honeybee diseases and found that crowding many colonies together was “unlikely to greatly increase disease prevalence...