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Alanis Morissette joined by Pale Waves and The Big Moon for Devon date

Guitar indie-pop band Pale Waves and Mercury-nominated The Big Moon are the latest acts heading to the south Devon countryside for the county’s biggest music event this summer.

The bands are joining the line-up for seven-time GRAMMY Award winning Canadian / American artist Alanis Morissette ’s headline show with special guest musical powerhouse Skunk Anansie at TK Maxx presents Live At Powderham on Friday June 26.

The Devon date is the first of just seven shows Morissette is playing in the UK this year and comes on the heels of her most acclaimed UK shows ever last...

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Devon fish paying high price for Scottish salmon farms

A Devon-based wildlife charity is calling for immediate action to control a fishing practice which is leading to thousands of local fish – from a family of fish known as wrasse - being removed from around the coast of Devon. The fish are being transported alive to Scottish salmon farms where they are being used as a ‘natural’ control against parasites. Today Devon Wildlife Trust is calling for a ban on the live capture of the fish from Devon’s Marine Protected Areas (MPAs)* – places which have been recognised for the richness of their marine nature. The Trust is requesting people in Devon...

Seven men charged after ram raid in Exeter

Police were called around 9.35pm to reports of two vans involved in an alleged ram raid at a premises on Thorverton Road, Exeter, on Saturday 24 May 2017.

Officers were dispatched and a pursuit ensued, assisted by the National Police Air Service who tracked the two vans along the M5 and M4.

Devon and Cornwall Police were also assisted by Dorset Police and Avon and Somerset Police.

Bobby Ryan, 36, Gary Mcintrye, 35, Alan Mcintyre, 36, Brian Hitchcock, 37, Kenneth Cozens, 36, Darren Grant, 27, and Jamie Cox, 26, all from London, have been charged with conspiracy...

Appeal for witnesses to crash near Exeter

Police were notified at approximately 3.15pm on Saturday 24 June, to a two vehicle collision on the A377 near the Half Moon village.

A man in his 30s was airlifted to Derriford Hospital with multiple serious injuries when his motorcycle, a black Yamaha XJ600, was involved in a collision with a silver VW Passat car.

Both vehicles were travelling towards the Exeter direction.

The road was closed for four hours whilst the Serious Collisions Investigation Unit carried out an examination of the scene.

Police are appealing for further witnesses to come forward and...

Exeter diabetes researchers recognised as “Rising Stars”

Two researchers at the University of Exeter Medical School have been recognised as rising stars in diabetes research.

Dr Andrew Wood and Dr Hanieh Yaghootkar have been awarded two of just four €30,000 (£25,500) awards made across Europe, from the European Association for the Study of Diabetes e.V. (EASD). The award, made under the Rising Star Fellowship Programme and supported by global healthcare company Novo Nordisk, is designed to fund selected research projects of promising and innovative young researchers. Winning academics also give a presentation to the EASD Annual Meeting,...

Award-winning authors and broadcasters headline Budleigh’s 9th annual Literary Festival

The line-up of best-selling authors and budding literary stars for the annual Budleigh Salterton Literary Festival has been announced.

Now in its ninth year, the themes of the 2017 Festival will be nature, wildlife and history, including family history and memoir. There will also be magical events for children to help mark the 20th anniversary of the first Harry Potter book.

The opening day of the Festival on 13th September will include an “in-conversation” event with Festival President, Dame Hilary Mantel MBE, who’s eagerly anticipated final book in her Cromwell trilogy is...

Appeal after strimmer stolen in Exmouth

Police in Exmouth are appealing for information after power a petrol strimmer worth around £200 was stolen from behind a van in the Littleham area of Exmouth.

The offence took place in the Louisa Terrace area of Littleham, Exmouth at around 12.30pm on Wednesday 14 June.

PC Ian Schofield said: “At the time, a contract gardener was packing his gear into his van when the Stihl FS 55 two-stroke petrol strimmer was stolen. He had left the strimmer outside the back of his van when an unknown young man walked up to the van, took the strimmer and then ran to another van and drove...

New tapestry reflects the words that mean the most to hospital chaplains past and present

The favourite quotes and sayings of Chaplains who have served the Royal Devon & Exeter Hospital over the last 21 years have been carefully crafted into a new piece of artwork for the hospital’s chaplaincy centre thanks to a donation from the League of Friends.

The new ‘Threads and Ripples’ tapestry, by renowned Devon textile artist Jacqui Parkinson, will be displayed on the wall in the chaplaincy centre to offer comfort and solace to those who choose to visit the space.

The RD&E’s multi-faith chaplaincy team provide pastoral support and spiritual and religious care...

Hospital Radio Exeter needs volunteers

Hospital Radio Exeter broadcasts to the largest Hospital in Exeter, the Royal Devon & Exeter Hospital (Wonford) and are looking for new volunteers aged 18 and over, from all backgrounds.

Hospital Radio Exeter uses professional quality equipment and state of the art technology to provide a 24 hour service, 7 days a week and we are currently looking for new faces to join our friendly team of dedicated and hard working volunteers.

They are looking for:

Audio engineer (Radio) with a computer background Fundraising/publicity officer Ward visitors

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Trading Standards donates counterfeit clothes mountain to charity

Around 5,000 seized items of counterfeit clothes have been donated to the charity Planet Zero by Devon, Somerset and Torbay Trading Standards Service.

The mainly counterfeit goods, which include track suits, t-shirts, sweatshirts and trainers, are the result of seizures by trading standards officers across the area.

On Friday trading standards officers packed a lorry bound for the charity, which collects unwanted clothes for a good cause, full of clothes.

The clothes were stored at the service's secure compound in Somerset.

Every year thousands of products...

Take a walk back to the 80s with Hospiscare Twilight Walk!

It’s the final countdown! Time is fast running out to enrol in the Eighties-themed Twilight Walk on Saturday 8th July.

Remember, this is an exclusively female event: on this occasion, sisters are doing it for themselves! Join up today and raise loadsamoney for Exeter’s well known and popular local charity Hospiscare, an organisation which itself started in the Eighties (in 1982, to be precise).

The Twilight Walk is a 5-mile or new 10-mile themed sponsored walk around Exmouth Seafront with entertainment provided all along the route. The walk starts from The Maer, Exmouth....

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Alanis Morissette joined by Pale Waves and The Big Moon for Devon date

Devon fish paying high price for Scottish salmon farms

Seven men charged after ram raid in Exeter

Appeal for witnesses to crash near Exeter

Exeter diabetes researchers recognised as “Rising Stars”

Award-winning authors and broadcasters headline Budleigh’s 9th annual Literary Festival

Appeal after strimmer stolen in Exmouth

New tapestry reflects the words that mean the most to hospital chaplains past and present

Hospital Radio Exeter needs volunteers

Trading Standards donates counterfeit clothes mountain to charity

Take a walk back to the 80s with Hospiscare Twilight Walk!

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