Environmental Health staff at East Devon District Council are working with colleagues at Exeter City Council and in the Fire Service to deliver free training and awareness sessions for owners of Bed and Breakfast establishments.
The sessions will help B&B owners understand what they need to do to comply with fire safety orders and food hygiene legislation.
The events, which start on 27 January and run through until 12 February in a number of East Devon and Exeter venues, will cover what business owners need to do to comply with the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order...
A local soldier is challenging himself to cycle 1000 km on a stationary bicycle for Blind Veterans UK, the national charity for vision impaired ex-Service men and women. Steve Tonking, aged 34 and from Exeter, enjoys tackling fitness challenges and will be running the London Marathon for Blind Veterans UK later this year. He is now set to raise the bar and cycle a distance of 1000 km which is equal to cycling from Beeston, Nottingham to John O’Groats. Steve said “I wanted to challenge myself physically whilst raising as much money as possible for Blind Veterans UK at the same time. My...
Devon County Council this afternoon agreed to lower caps on subsidies for bus journeys that would otherwise have been withdrawn by their commercial operators for being unprofitable.
Currently one subsidised Devon service costs £22.95 for every passenger trip while another bus journey costs £19.38.
The measures were proposed as the authority faces saving £1.7 million out of its annual bus subsidy as a way of meeting the £50 million county council budget reduction required by Government spending cuts next year.
It was the first time that the authority has made bus...
A car driver has died following a collision with a lorry on the A39 near Bideford this morning (Wednesday 14 January).
Police and other emergency services were called shortly before 6.53am to the collision.
The red Volvo lorry, registered to Bideford, overturned, shedding its load of logs across the carriageway on the A39, two miles from Bideford, towards Barnstaple.
Paramedics treated the driver of the silver Subaru Impreza at the scene before taking him to North Devon District Hospital with life threatening injuries.
Have you set yourself a New Year challenge? Are you looking to do something to help others or possibly put your body through the ultimate endurance test? If you’ve answered yes to either question then Exeter Deaf Academy could have the challenge for you!
The Deaf Academy is looking for enthusiastic volunteers to help marshal Rock Solid at Escot Park on either 21 or 22 March 2015. Possibly one of the muddiest obstacle course races in the UK, competitors can enjoy a ‘once-in-a-lifetime’ experience battling oceans of mud and contending with 9 ingeniously designed water obstacles...
Devon schools that don't meet strict criteria will be asked to fund their nearby crossing patrols, it was decided this afternoon.
The county council is facing a £50 million reduction in its funding in the next financial year and, as part of that, is to reduce its school crossing patrol budget by around £100,000 per year in the next two financial years.
Councillors were today asked to approve the criteria that determines whether an existing school crossing patrol qualifies for funding from the council. They were also asked to approve consultation with schools served by...
CCANW presents three distinctive yet intertwining projects from Oliver Raymond-Barker, including an original look at Natural Alchemy - a project produced as Creative Affiliate at The University of Exeter’s Environment & Sustainability Institute during 2013-14.
The Donkey Sanctuary, Sidmouth has teamed up with local woodland co-operative AxeWoods to offer local people the chance to collect free firewood for a limited period this month.
Recent coppicing operations at one of The Donkey Sanctuary’s farms in Sidmouth have produced a large volume of willow that the charity is offering to local people to collect for firewood on key dates at the end of January.
Events and Wildlife Manager for The Donkey Sanctuary, James Chubb, explains: “After coppicing an area of our willow beds we’ve now got a great stack of wood that we’d like to...
