Devon & Somerset Fire & Rescue Service is joining with fire and rescue services across the UK in supporting the Chief Fire Officers Association’s Drowning Prevention and Water Safety Week 2015, taking place from 13-19 April.

The campaign is focusing on raising awareness of the issue of Cold Water Shock by encouraging everyone, but especially young people to share the message ‘Tell a friend. Save a friend’ and to be aware of the risks around water.

The intention is to hopefully reduce preventable water fatalities in young adults aged 16-30, as this age saw the...

The lighter nights and bank holidays coming up could only mean only one thing for many of us; house hunting or home improvement time. It is with this in mind that RICS has created an online suite of consumer guides to help homeowners improve, buy or sell a home.

Each easy-to follow guide offers clear, specialist advice, suggestions and helpful recommendations, and is available to download for free, with topics including Home Extensions, Subsidence, Party Walls, Rights to Light, Buying a Home and Selling a Home.

Graham Ellis, RICS Associate Residential Director said: “The...

Gina Awad, Project Lead of the Exeter Dementia Action Alliance, and 40 staff including seven GPs from St Thomas Health Centre, spent their Saturday morning cycling from Exeter to Exmouth and back again all in aid of raising funds for dementia.

They were inspired following a Dementia Friends information session delivered by Gina, who also volunteers as a Dementia Friends Champion in Exeter, and arranged this event to support her fundraising. Together they have raised approximately £2,300.

Gina’s hour long interactive talk triggered Health Centre staff to join in with her...

Match report: Exeter Chiefs 21 Northampton Saints 10

Exeter Chiefs underlined their Aviva Premiership play-off credentials with aplomb as they saw off visiting Northampton Saints at a packed Sandy Park.

A dominant set-piece, allied with razor-sharp attacking play and some defiant defensive work, ensured Rob Baxter’s side became the first side this season to complete the double over Jim Mallinder’s visitors.

Having won at Franklin’s Gardens back in November, the Chiefs produced arguably an even greater display in this latest outing to propel themselves back into the...

Nearly a third of Exeter professionals (30%) identified traffic jams as a productivity killer to their working day, according to the latest report by the world’s largest flexible workspace provider Regus.

The survey asked 3,000 business people in the UK about interruptions and distractions at work.

In fact, travel-related grievances feature heavily in the results; transport delays (23%), and road works (26%) were also shown to be prohibitive to productivity.

Other prominent distractions include lengthy meetings and dealing with incoming cold calls, both of which...

Police have issued an appeal for witnesses following a serious collision in Ipplepen, Devon, which left five people injured.

Police, fire and ambulance crews and the air ambulance were called to a collision between two cars, a silver coloured MG and red Ford Focus, on the A381 Totnes Road at 1pm 10 April.

The occupants of the MG, a woman and two young children, sustained injuries and were taken to hospital. The woman driver was taken to Derriford with serious but not life threatening injuries.

One child was taken by air ambulance to Derriford Hospital and kept in...

According to the latest UK Business Digital Index, over a million (23%) small to medium-sized businesses (SMEs) still lack basic digital skills. The Index from Lloyds Bank, in association with Accenture and digital skills charity Go ON UK, measures and tracks the level of digital ability among SMEs and charities.

An overall rise in the UK Index score suggests a slow but positive shift towards small to medium sized enterprises becoming more digitally active. However there are still over a million SMEs (23%) that lack basic digital skills. This is even more significant in the charity...

A new Street Food Night Market is coming to Exeter.

The event will feature live music, salsa dancing, a 23m drop adrenaline-fuelled drop, massage, canoeing and much more from the same well known local organisers that have brought you the Exeter Street Food at the Guildhall and the Quay.

So what did you plan to do this Thursday - or any third Thursday in the month for that matter?

Well, thanks to the new market at Piazza Terracina you might be eating some street food, having a pint, getting a quick foot massage and then throwing yourself off Haven Banks 23m high...

As political campaigners across the UK start knocking on doors ahead of the general election, rural insurer, NFU Mutual is warning that those chasing the countryside vote might find it has unexpected teeth.

Over the past two years, the insurer paid out over £1 million in claims for dogs biting visitors to rural properties. With the general election only weeks away, the insurer is reminding property owners that whatever their political persuasion, they have a duty of care to ensure that political canvassers are safe on their property.

Nicki Whittaker, Rural Affairs...