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Essential remedial work will have to be carried out to traffic calming on Blundell’s Road in Tiverton, starting from this Saturday (21 January).

Devon County Council has confirmed that it cannot accept the structures on the public highway as the profile and shape of ten of the traffic calming ramps have not met specifications.

SIAC Construction Ltd will carry out the repair work at its own expense. It will undertake the work over the next three Saturdays between 8am and 5pm. Stop/go boards will be used while work is ongoing.

The repair scheme will start at the ramp...

Exeter Northcott Theatre is proud to announce its inaugural Easter School and is looking for creative youngsters to take part.

The week long Easter School will take place from Monday 3 April – Friday 7 April 2017 and will see participants create a piece of devised theatre from scratch. The week will culminate in a sharing of work for friends and family on the Friday evening.

The Easter School is open to enthusiastic and creative youngsters aged 11 to 14 who love drama.

Lisa Hudson, Exeter Northcott’s Education and Outreach Officer said “We’re so excited to be able...

Exeter’s Royal Albert Memorial Museum (RAMM) will redisplay the World Cultures gallery with a new £190,000 grant from DCMS/Wolfson Museums and Galleries Improvement Fund.

The award was one of the £4 million grants announced by Matt Hancock, Minister of State for Digital and Culture, today. Councillor Paul Bull, Exeter City Lead Councillor for Communities and Culture, said: “Exeter is proud to have one of the country’s best World Cultures collections.

"We are ambitious in our desire to make Exeter’s collections widely accessible, informative and enjoyable for visitors. We...

A new series of children’s books that champion enterprise and innovation could help to create the next generation of entrepreneurs in the South West.

Clever Tykes children’s books introduce important life skills through positive, entrepreneurial role models for children aged six to nine. Ben and Jodie Cook, creators of the Clever Tykes children’s storybooks, have secured a deal with Lloyds Banking Group that will see a copy of the series delivered to each and every primary school in the UK. The storybooks inspire resourceful, innovative and enterprising behaviour and have generated...