There’s no getting away from the fact that we live increasingly in what we might call a “screen culture”. The number of hours many of us spend in front of television, lap-top, tablet or mobile phone display screen is huge (even larger if one includes vehicle windscreens). In each case we absorb information, ideas, emotions, debates, data-images, even beliefs, through a filter. Modern myths – stories that give us a purpose – are held constantly before us in the form of distant soap operas, computer games and info-programmes. Our instant access to so much knowledge is mind-blowing and brings...
East Devon District Council and Woodbury Parish Council are asking Woodbury Salterton residents of all ages to decide on the final design for £30,000 of outdoor gym and play equipment available for the Woodbury Salterton recreation field.
Woodbury Parish Council are taking all the options to a voting stall at Woodbury Salterton Village Hall on Thursday 17 July from 3.30pm to 6.30pm. So please go along and cast your vote.
The money has come from recent housing developments (Section 106 funds) in the parish. Residents have been part of the process of deciding how the cash is...
The Dartmoor site has been prepared and on Monday archaeologists will begin a new phase of excavation at a Bronze Age hut circle site in Bellever plantation.
A quick look during the last season of excavation in 2011 revealed a possible stake hole along with internal paving and potential occupational deposits in a small hut circle. Hopes are high that they will recover some interesting and well preserved features that will increase our understanding of this remarkable site and Dartmoor’s Bronze Age in general.
They will also be investigating outside a larger hut circle to...
Exeter Cathedral will be invaded by Saxons and Vikings on Saturday 12 July, with a re-enactment on the Cathedral Green.
Learn about their way of life, before heading into the Cathedral to see how some of them died and what they have left behind in terms of their physical remains and their cultural artefacts.
The Exeter book, a unique collection of Anglo Saxon poems and riddles, will be on display in the Cathedra as well as some human remains excavated from the Cathedral Green.
There will also be children activities on the Green throughout the display, including bow...
The number of prison officers in the South West has been cut by 34 per cent in three years, figures obtained by the Howard League for Penal Reform reveal today (Friday 11 July).
Research published by the charity shows that there were 1,275 officer grade staff working in the region’s prisons in September 2013, compared with 1,943 in September 2010.
According to the charity the number of officers at Exeter Prison has fallen by 32 per cent – from 176 in September 2010 to 120 in September 20123.
The drop in officer numbers nationwide has coincided with a deepening...
This September, in Exeter’s chic Southernhay quarter, an exhibition of Surreal works will launch at leading commercial gallery gloss - Art Exeter.
The exhibition, titled The Surreal and The Absurd, will feature over thirty original paintings, photographs, sculptures and film by a range of accomplished artists, primarily living and working in South West England.
Lucinda Cusdin, Gallery Manager and Exhibition Curator, said: ‘The Surreal and The Absurd will bring a range of challenging works together and, although we housed...
East Devon District Council is giving its support to a gruelling triathlon race that starts at Budleigh Salterton on Sunday 10 August. The event was first staged in 2013.
The Jurassicman race – nicknamed The Brutal – is a long distance triathlon that involves competitors in a sea swim at Budleigh, followed by a cycle ride to Swanage in Dorset and ending with a full-length running marathon, which again finishes in Swanage.
The organisers have been given permission to use part of EDDC’s Lime Kiln car park at Budleigh for the early stages of the event, which begins with a 2.4...
An East Devon District Council committee today (Friday) unanimously voted to defer a decision on a proposal for up to 300 new homes off Hayne Lane, Honiton, in the parish of Gittisham.
The decision came after late submissions from official bodies asked to comment on the possible impact of the new homes.
EDDC’s Development Management Committee (DMC) had referred the application to the Site Inspections Committee on 3 April and later that month the latter committee resolved to approve the proposal.
Since then, concerns have been raised by the EDDC ward member,...
Detectives investigating the death of a 17-year-old boy in Kingsbridge will be returning to the town one week after the tragic event to appeal for the public’s help.
A murder enquiry was launched after the death of Alex Peguero Sosa, from the Kingsbridge area, who was found with fatal injuries at a bus shelter in Prince of Wales Road around 2.20am on 6 July.
Lee Dent, 42, of East Portlemouth, Salcombe, has been charged with murder and remains in custody following an appearance at Exeter Crown Court on 10 July.
Detectives and local officers will return to Kingsbridge...
Devon County Council has today (Friday 11 July) received £1.1 million from the Government for sustainable transport schemes.
Devon has successfully bid for the Local Sustainable Transport Funding as a one year extension for its two projects which aim to help economic growth and cut congestion across the county.
The Department for Transport is providing £910,00 for 2015/16 to go towards the County Council’s “Unlocking Growth Through Sustainable Travel” scheme.
This will aim to improve integration between sustainable modes of transport, improve bus services, and...
