The countdown to the eleventh annual Dartmoor Classic Sportive, which takes place on Sunday 02 July, is on, and organisers are looking forward to yet another successful event.

Up to 3,500 riders will participate, with entrants travelling from as far as Australia, Brazil, France, Portugal, Belgium, Switzerland, Netherlands, Bulgaria, the USA, Canada, Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Sri Lanka, Philippines, Spain, Italy and Ireland.

The riders will tackle one of three routes; the 35 mile piccolo route, the 68 mile medio route and the 107 mile grande route. The routes are designed...

Over the past three decades multi award winning British soul group Imagination released so many wonderful classic hits such as Body Talk, Just An illusion and Flashback, helping them to secure their dominance over the charts in the 1980s not only in the UK but across the world.

With sales in excess of over 30 million albums, Imagination presented perfect Brit Jazz/Funk songs and established their position as an essential 80s crossover soul-dance hit band influencing generations of future pop stars.

Even today the story of Imagination’s music continues in the form of a long...

Honda Accords were targeted over the weekend, as car parts were removed and almost £5,000 worth of tools were stolen from two vans.

Between 5.30pm on Sunday 18 June and 8am on Monday 19 June an exhaust and a catalytic converter was cut off a blue Honda Accord that was parked in the Fraser Road area of Exmouth. Another catalytic converter was stolen with another having been removed from a bronze Honda Accord in the Moormead area of Budleigh Salterton during a similar time-frame.

Exmouth police are also investigating after thieves’ targeted vehicles over the weekend period...

Due to popular demand, 3,000 extra tickets for Olly Murs at Powderham Castle near Exeter have been released giving even more fans the chance to see his only live performance in the West Country on Saturday 29th July 2017. The additional 3,000 tickets have also been seeded with 10 Jackpot tickets giving an automatic upgrade for fans purchasing these lucky tickets. Anyone lucky enough to buy a Jackpot ticket will have all their tickets upgraded to the next category of tickets allowing them to be even closer to the stage. Olly Murs, says, “I am so pleased more of my West Country fans will get...

Business communications leader Onecom has been recognised for its commitment to outstanding customer services with one of the industry’s most prestigious awards.

Onecom, which has headquarters in Hampshire and offices around the UK, in Wales and in Northern Ireland, won the award for Customer Service Team of the Year in the 2017 Comms Business Awards.

The accolade, one of the most sought-after in the world of business-to-business telecoms, was in honour of Onecom’s work to put excellence in customer service at the heart of its operations. It was accepted by Stu Jeffries,...

An Exmouth woman has been fined more than £1,400 for fly tipping in a successful prosecution brought by Environmental Health Officers from East Devon District Council.

Jill O'Donnell who was living at Waverley Road, Exmouth when the offence took place pleaded guilty and was fined £1,451. She was also ordered to pay costs of £85 and a victim surcharge of £145. Exeter Magistrates reduced her fine by 10% after taking her circumstances to pay into account.

The magistrates were told that Ms O'Donnell dumped more than 20 bags of domestic waste and some old carpets in the service...

On Saturday 1 July, the 22,888 coins of the Seaton Down Hoard will be on public display for the first time.

The coins were buried in the ground on Seaton Down around AD 350 and discovered in November 2013 by metal detectorist Laurence Egerton. They will be on permanent display in the Making History gallery at Exeter’s Royal Albert Memorial Museum & Art Gallery (RAMM).

Conservation work began on the coins in July 2016. Talks, Roman Roadshows, museum events, special workshops, gallery tours and other events have been enjoyed by over 15,000 people from Devon and further...

Final recommendations have been made for the electoral arrangements of East Devon District Council, following a review carried out by the independent Local Government Boundary Commission for England.

The recommendations, which can be found online at: https://consultation.lgbce.org.uk/node/8778.t , propose that East Devon should be represented by 60 district councillors in the future: one more than there is at present. The recommendations also propose that the councillors should represent 12 three-councillor wards, six two-councillor wards and 12 one-councillor wards across the...

“There is no place in Exeter for hate crime.” That’s the message from Exeter’s Community Safety Partnership.

The message of zero tolerance comes as Exeter has experienced four incidents of religiously motivated hate-crime within 10 days.

City Council Leader Pete Edwards said hate crime would not be tolerated and urged anyone who knew anything about the incidents to contact the police. He said: “These hate-crimes are just not representative of Exeter, a city renowned for its goodwill and diversity.

“The people of Exeter will wish to see the offenders brought to...