Local News

The freedom and flexibility brought by home dialysis treatments has been praised by patients during a series of information events run by kidney specialists at the Royal Devon & Exeter Hospital this July.

Over the course of a week the RD&E’s renal community team, with support from charity Kidney Care UK and manufacturers NxStage and Baxter, held five events across Torbay, Honiton, Barnstaple, Taunton and Exeter to demonstrate how home dialysis machines can be easily installed at home or even taken on holiday – freeing-up dialysis patients from the burden of time-consuming...

People living in Exeter wanting to vote in the next election are being urged to complete a form that has been posted to their homes.

Exeter City Council is carrying out its annual voter registration canvas and people are being urged to check if their information on the electoral register is correct.

The aim of the canvass is to ensure that the electoral register is up-to-date and to identify any residents who are not on it.

Exeter City Council elections take place in May 2018. John Street, Electoral Registration Officer at Exeter City Council said: “Anyone that...

RGB Building Supplies has reopened its Well Built Community Fund and is calling out to schools, charities and community groups to tell it about projects that have an autumnal theme for the chance to receive £1,000 worth of building materials.

This will be the builders’ merchants’ 20th Community Fund giveaway and whatever the reason for the nomination, RGB would like to hear about it. Maybe a charity needs to make repairs to ensure a building is safe for winter, or perhaps an amateur dramatic group needs help with staging for an autumn performance.

Paul West, Branch Manager...

Around 500 people visited the Honiton Community Festival where many local community groups held stalls and attractions.

A number of demonstrations were held throughout the day at the event which was held at Allhallows Playing Field.

These included displays by SYTL Karate, which included a very useful Stranger Danger message, the SPS Kickboxing group who showed off their skills, the lively Honiton Twirlstars who put on a great performance and musicians from the Honiton Youth Orchestra provided some great music for the event.

Officers from Wild East Devon made...