Overnight closures will be needed at Junction 30 of the M5 next week in order to safely complete surfacing at Sandygate roundabout.

Devon County Council has been carrying out extensive work at the roundabout over the past couple of weeks. From Monday (4 December) until Friday 8 December, the motorway junction will need to be closed for a further five nights, rather than overnight lane closures as originally planned. This is primarily to create a safer work environment due to the high volumes of HGVs having to be escorted through the site. This has the additional benefits of...

Every class at Stoke Hill Junior School worked hard and had fun learning about road safety during this year’s Road Safety Week campaign (November 20-26, 2017).

Their challenge was to think about how to make the roads around their school safer, and to create a poster promoting road safety.

The national awareness week is the flagship event of Brake, the road safety charity, and has been running for 20 years. The theme, Speed Down Save Lives, was chosen because speeding remains a huge problem in the UK; the risk of injury increases massively with impact speed, and speeding is...

Kristina Rihanoff and Christopher Maloney are to team up in a new smash hit dance show that promises to transport audiences on a musical journey through time.

The pair became close pals during their time in Celebrity Big Brother – and now they are to appear together in a nationwide tour of glittering stage show Dance to the Music.

The new production, which arrives in Exmouth on 29 January, will showcase every genre of dance, from the roaring twenties to the present day, with plenty of sequins and surprises along the way! The production is the creation of professional dancer...

Danny Seaborne has rejoined Exeter City.

The defender, who helped the Grecians achieve back-to-back promotions from the Conference to League One between 2007 and 2009, has been without a club since leaving Scottish Premier League side Hamilton Academicals in the summer.

The 30-year-old Barnstaple-born player is a popular figure with the St James Park faifthul as he is a product of the club’s youth academy and went on to captain the side in one of their finest moments as they achieved promotion back to the Football League in 2008 with a Conference play-off final victory over...

Police in Exeter are seeking witnesses after two people with learning difficulties were subjected to verbal abuse by a group of teenage boys.

The man and woman were leaving the Vue Cinema around 7.15pm on Sunday 26 November when the incident happened.

Three boys, aged around 15, blocked the entrance to the cinema and subjected the pair to threats and verbal abuse.

The victims, from Exeter, were left very distressed and fearful and police are treating the incident as a hate crime.

Officers are keen to speak to anyone who witnessed the incident or has...

Oakdown Caravan and Camping Park, based on the East Devon coast, is celebrating after winning gold in the ‘Holiday Park of the Year’ category in the Visit Devon Tourism Awards.

The awards, which are now in their eighth year, celebrate the best of Devon Tourism.

And the announcement comes at the end of a very busy period for Oakdown, which has this year seen the introduction of shepherd’s huts and premier pods, a brand-new reception area and a redesigned coffee shop and restaurant.

Alastair Franks, whose family have owned Oakdown since the 1970s, said: ‘To win gold...

Christmas is just around the corner and the Positive People team are getting festive by holding Christmas crafting workshops across Devon. The Positive People project is funded by the Big Lottery Fund and the European Social Fund and aims to help people get socially and digitally connected.

In these free workshops, participants can get involved with a range of activities including making wreaths and snow globes, designing Christmas cards and T-shirts and making their own tree decorations. At some venues, there is also the opportunity to try out cake decorating and build a Virtual...

Equipment and children’s toys collected for firefighters, their families and the wider community on the hurricane-stricken British Virgin Islands will be delivered in time for Christmas. Staff from Devon & Somerset Fire & Rescue Service and Devon & Cornwall Police with the help of charity SAFE South West have collected enough donations to fill a 40-foot container, which left aboard a ship on Thursday (23 November). When Hurricane Irma made landfall in September, it caused massive damage to the island’s infrastructure and all six fire and rescue service fire stations were...

A South Devon practice has won a prestigious national award for its contribution to clinical research.

The achievements of the Bovey Tracey and Chudleigh Practice were recognised at the Royal College of General Practitioners Research Awards, run in partnership with the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR), last month at the annual awards ceremony held in Liverpool.

Picking up the Practice Award, the South Devon team at Riverside surgery in Bovey Tracey and the Tower House surgery in Chudleigh were praised for demonstrating excellence and innovation in delivering...

Visible Girls: Revisited, is a photography commission and national travelling exhibition of female portraits by photographer Anita Corbin. The exhibition brings together original images of women from different subcultures of the early 1980s and newly commissioned portraits of the same women now.

The work will reunite women with their adolescent selves, exploring the ways in which photography can reveal and reflect upon identity and society at various stages of women's lives.

In 1981, as a young female photographer at the beginning of her career, Corbin made 28 double...