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Furzehill play area in Sidbury is to undergo a major £30,000 refurbishment by East Devon District Council and local primary school children and young people from the area have now had their say on what they would like to see there.

Nearly all the play equipment, which has been there for more than thirty years, will be removed when work begins next year. The swing frames are likely to stay and be restored. As a good zip wire can cost around £15,000 and a basket swing can be about £2,000, the council is going to also investigate if they can potentially source some funding from other...

Ahead of what is going to be a busy festive period for the Exeter Chiefs, stars from the Aviva Premiership club today took time out to pay a special visit to the Bramble Children’s Unit at the Royal Devon & Exeter Hospital.

Leading the way was club captain Jack Yeandle, who was joined on the day by team-mates Ollie Atkins, Jack Nowell, Henry Slade, Dave Ewers, Lachie Turner, Moray Low, Toby Salmon, Dave Dennis, Matt Kvesic, Alec Hepburn, Olly Woodburn, Ben Moon and Elvis Taione.

Loaded up with sacks full of presents and other goodies, the players took on the role of...

A major expansion of broadband rollout across Devon and Somerset has received Government approval to provide thousands more homes and businesses in Devon with access to a superfast connection.

The Government’s Broadband Delivery UK (BDUK) agency has given the go-ahead for Connecting Devon and Somerset (CDS) to increase access to its planned ultrafast (up to 1,000Mbps) broadband with Gigaclear to over 3,000 more homes and businesses in hard to reach areas of Devon. Gigaclear is already building a new full fibre broadband network on behalf of CDS for over 41,000 homes and businesses...

A £5 million upgrade of the North Devon Link Road’s surface and drainage will get underway early in the new year.

Over 10km of the A361 will be resurfaced on both carriageways as part of the Devon County Council scheme, which is being funded by the Council’s successful bid for Challenge Funding. This will include a low noise surface being added to the new junction currently being constructed to access developments to the east of Tiverton. From Saturday 6 January until the end of June, work is due to be carried out on the western section of the A361 (Bolham roundabout to east of...