A leading housebuilder has contributed around £2 million towards a new school in Exeter.
Charles Church South West has revealed it has handed over the hefty cheque to Devon County Council as part of its Great Woodcote Park development off Admiral Way.
Trinity Church of England Primary School is being built in the Newcourt area of the city and is due to open in September. Without the considerable contribution towards education, it would have been unlikely that this school would be delivered.
Construction started in February this year and the new school building is...
Police are appealing for witnesses to a serious collision between a car and a six-year-old girl in Teignmouth.
Emergency services were called at 4.55pm yesterday [4 April] after the collision between a Ford Ranger pick-up and the child in Bitton Park Road near to First Avenue.
The girl, from Teignmouth, sustained serious injuries and was airlifted to Bristol Royal Infirmary. Her injuries are not believed life-threatening or life-changing.
Police closed Bitton Park Road for around three hours to carry out an examination of the scene and for the vehicle to be...
Devon County Council’s adult education service Learn Devon is celebrating after maintaining its Good rating from Ofsted, following an inspection on 28 February and 1 March.
Over the two days, HM inspectors met with managers, tutors and other staff, visited lessons, talked to learners and reviewed key information such as evidence of safeguarding and reports on learners’ satisfaction with their courses.
In his report, HM Inspector Steve Tucker praised the service’s “clear focus on improving the lives of disadvantaged and vulnerable people in Devon.”
First held in 2006, the Exeter Contemporary Open is one of the UKs most prominent regional contemporary art competitions, culminating in an annual exhibition at Exeter Phoenix, the South West’s foremost multi-artform venue and exhibition centre. Exeter Contemporary Open provides an important national platform for contemporary visual art with an emphasis on supporting new and emerging talent alongside more established artists.
Open to all contemporary artists working in any medium who live in the UK, works for the exhibition are selected by a panel of specialists, which in the past...
Cofton Holidays, the multi award-winning holiday park near Dawlish, South Devon, has taken its green credentials to new heights with the launch of a state-of-the-art biomass hub that will provide heat and hot water to Cofton’s 4,800 sq ft leisure and dining complex, its cottages, major shower and toilet blocks. Officially opened by Anne Marie Morris, Member of Parliament for Newton Abbot, Cofton’s biomass hub is the largest of its kind in Devon, and is expected to produce on average 1.9 million kWh of energy that will constantly charge four 5,000 litre thermal stores of hot water, heating...
