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Every Spring and Autumn Freemasons from all around Devon meet to support local organisations and charities who are require financial assistance, amongst those included are Schools, Youth Centres and locally based charities including Hospices, Hospital Services and Cancer Charities.

The money is raised through the “WAKE FUND” a trust conceived by Right Worshipful Brother William Alexander Kneel, the Provincial Grand Master of Devonshire from 1970 to 1984, the late owner of Kneels laundry & dry cleaners (Now Johnsons). Since the idea was initiated the fund has grown through the...

Residents at RMBI Home Cadogan Court in Exeter began their new weekly fitness regime this week, pumping iron at a local gym.

Four game individuals, aged between 81 and 98, became the first care home residents to try out Motortone, a new gym specially designed for older adults, which is part of Exeter Sports Academy.

The fab four laughed and joked through their induction and first session using electrically powered gym machines which allow you to passively or actively exercise.

Motortone is designed to offer low impact exercise to help people with joint mobility,...

Upgrading a vital road between London and the South West will boost the region’s economy by £40 billion and create 21,000 new jobs.

That’s the message Devon County Council has delivered in evidence at a public examination of proposals to improve the A303 by constructing a tunnel to by-pass Stonehenge. Councillor Andrea Davis, Devon County Council Cabinet Member for Infrastructure and Development, told the Planning Inspectorate hearing that improving the A303 and the A30 and A358 “swallow-tail” was critical to the future prosperity of the South West. Studies commissioned by a...

From 3 June 2019, charges at Underhill long stay car park in Lympstone, Dolphin Street car park in Colyton, Land of Canaan car park in Ottery St Mary and Coombe Lane car park in Axminster will all be increased to 50p per half hour (£1 per hour), which is a standard tariff charged by all other car parks in East Devon. The increases were approved by East Devon District Council’s Cabinet in September 2018, following a public consultation in April 2018, the results of which led to a number of proposals being put to Cabinet. The council has listened carefully to what was said during the public...