East Devon District Council and Devon County Council funding pot helps communities to help themselves
A panel of councillors from East Devon District Council and Devon County Council has approved applications for 34 different community schemes, which are now receiving funding from the Parishes Together Fund for the financial year 2015/2016. A total of over £110,000 of funding has been allocated.
Designed to provide financial solutions to local issues, the Parishes Together Fund is a joint East Devon District Council and Devon County Council initiative in which the sum of £1...
Temporary traffic lights will be introduced overnight on Bridge Road in Exeter on Thursday 28 April.
From 11pm on Thursday until 5am on Friday morning, traffic lights will be in place on a short length of the road over Countess Wear Bridge.
This will provide the contractor with temporary working space to access the upstream wall of Countess Wear Bridge with a “cherrypicker”, allowing an Ecologist to install bat roost exclusion measures.
Bats are roosting in areas of the bridge masonry which would be disturbed by the proposed construction of the new cantilever bridge...
People living in mobile homes in Exeter are being given the chance to apply for grants to make energy improvements in their homes.
Exeter City Council is working in partnership with Wessex Energy to provide grants of £2,000 to qualifying Exeter mobile or park home owners. If the cost of works exceeds £2,000, applicants are able to apply to Wessex Resolutions CIC, a not for profit lender, for a loan to make up the difference.
Mum2mum market nearly new sales has been a haven for cash strapped parents in London and the South East and now local mum Joanne Jones is bringing it to Exeter
The market provides an opportunity for parents to make money selling their outgrown baby clothes and equipment to other families. All goods for sale must be in excellent condition and sellers keep 100% of their proceeds on the day.
Buyers can make serious savings at their local Mum2mum market. Large items like designer prams and nursery furniture sell for about one third of their retail price whereas baby and...
East Devon District Council has improved information and signs advising visitors and residents about the seasonal dog bans on some areas of our beaches.
This year, for the first time, the council is using temporary stencils at the beach entrances so that the ban areas are clear to everyone. The seasonal ban lasts from May 1st to September 30th each year.
Cllr Iain Chubb, East Devon’s Portfolio Holder for the Environment, said: “Not everyone wants to share our beaches with dogs and the presence of dogs in ban areas can cause distress to others, so we are asking that all dog...
Researchers at the University of Exeter’s Penryn Campus are involved in a pioneering project to safeguard Europe’s smallest swan, which has won support from Dame Judi Dench, Sir Ranulph Fiennes, Pen Hadow and Sir David Attenborough and a swathe of businesses, charities and individuals.
Flight of the Swans will be the first ever attempt to follow the migration of the Bewick’s swan from the air. Setting off this September, Sacha Dench of the Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust (WWT) will fly a paramotor from the Bewick’s swans’ breeding grounds in arctic Russia 7,500km across 11 countries...
Kindly Leave the Stage – UK TOUR 2016 A comedy by John Chapman Directed by Adam Morley
Norwich based Baroque Theatre Company announce their 2016 tour of John Chapman’s farce Kindly Leave the Stage. Back by popular demand, and marking Baroque’s biggest to date, Kindly Leave the Stage will play in an impressive 33 venues across the UK- from Penzance in Cornwall to Carlisle in Cumbria, and many towns and cities in between.
Kindly Leave the Stage opens in Horsham on 1 April and arrives in Exeter at the Cygnet Theatre on 2 June.
Emergency services attended a serious one-vehicle collision on the old A30 at Honiton.
Police, fire and ambulance crews were called at 8am today (27 April) after a car left the carriageway and ended up upside down in a field close to the showground.
The male driver of the car has sustained serious injuries and was treated by paramedics at the scene.
The old A30 road is closed in both directions between the Fenny Bridges junction and the Honiton junction.
Anyone who witnessed the collision is asked to email 101@dc.police.uk or phone 101, quoting log number 89...
Adrian Thorley has raised an incredible £1,557 for local charity Rainbow Living after running the London Marathon in a brilliant time of 3 hours 45 minutes.
Adrian volunteered to take on the challenge of the London Marathon following an appeal from his employer, local healthcare and protection insurance provider The Exeter, as part of their fundraising efforts for Rainbow Living, which is the company’s Charity of the Year.
Having turned 50 this year, and as such in the ‘SuperVet’ category, Adrian is no stranger to long distance running, but this is the first time he has...
There’s something to put a spring in your step this summer as the largest trampoline park in Devon and Cornwall is due to open in Plymouth in June.
A relatively new concept in the UK, the trampoline park concept originated from the USA and Australia before hitting Europe around 5 years ago. The popularity of the sporting activity has increased hugely over the last year with 30 UK parks opening in the last 12 months alone.
The Super Tramp Park, located in a huge 10,000ft warehouse on Breakwater Road, Plymstock, will feature over 50 trampolines, a dodgeball court, wall...
