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Devon County Show’s appeal for hand-made poppies has reached its 11,000 target more than two months early thanks to the support of creative, local people.

The appeal was launched in October with a target of collecting the red poppies in time for this year’s Show on May 18-20 at Westpoint, Exeter.

‘Devon Remembers’ will be a tribute staged at the Show to the men and women from the county who lost their lives in the First World War.

The hand-crafted poppies will be put together to form a poignant memorial in the crafts and gardens pavilion.

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There is no officially established dress code for the Ladies Day, however, the tradition recommends statement dresses for ladies and elegant suits for gentlemen. Fascinators and hats are also traditional elements of the outfit. Yet you are strictly not recommended to wear sports clothes or to invent any fancy fiction dress.

It is not only fun to dress up for races. The most stylish outfits are awarded prizes worth thousands of pounds! For the event of this year, you may follow the hourly updates of Grand National online. Here follows the description of the last year’s Ladies Day...

A rare chance to ride on the old buses of Devon General and Exeter City Transport will be available, for one day only on Sunday 19th March. Owners of around 20 preserved buses will be providing rides around Exeter between 10.00am and 5.00pm.

The event, organised by the Devon General Omnibus Trust was originally planned to commemorate the closure of Exeter’s bus and coach station. However, this closure has been paused, as a result of a delay to the redevelopment plans. But the organisers had already gathered the buses and coaches together on this day and advertised the event to...

Work starts today (13 March) on repairing the Mallison footbridge at Exeter Quay. Repairs to the bridge, which pedestrians and cyclists use to cross a leat beside the River Exe, are expected to take two to three weeks and the City Council hopes to get it open again by Easter. The City Council was forced to close the bridge last week because of safety concerns after an inspection revealed some rotten timbers. A diversion is currently in place around the back of Samuel Jones Smoke & Ale House and into Commercial Road next to the Custom House. The ongoing repairs will be a temporary...