A small market town on the edge of Dartmoor will become the focus for some of the best contemporary craft in the country this June.

The Contemporary Craft Festival at Bovey Tracey is one of the key events in the national crafts calendar. Almost 200 makers from all over Britain will be demonstrating, selling and talking about their work.

Visitors to the event will be able to meet the makers and buy their work – a range of jewellery, ceramics, textiles, furniture, prints and other contemporary crafts.

The Craft Festival also features demonstrations, talks, exhibitions...

The actor Bob Hoskins has died aged 71.

Hoskins had retired, from a 30-year career in acting in 2012 following a diagnosis of parkinson's disease in the later year's of his life.

His agent, Clair Dobbs, today announced that he had died of pneumonia in hospital last night (29 April) surrounded by family.

Hoskins rose to national acclaim following his appearence as London gangster-turned-businessman in The Long Good Friday (1980).

Over a long career Hoskins starred in variety of major roles such as the private detective Eddie Valiant in the much-loved children...

Love to cycle? Looking for a challenge?

Well now’s your chance to enter Devon’s biggest cycling event and to raise money for a vital local cause at the same time.

The Dartmoor Classic is one of the South West’s most well-known cycling events, offering 34, 67 and 107 mile routes, and allows you to see spectacular Dartmoor scenery whilst taking on an exciting challenge. All 3,000 places for the event sold out on the first day they came on sale.

This year Exeter YMCA has 15 charity places for the event and some of them are still available. By getting sponsored for your...

A divorce lawyer from the South West has been featured on an independent list of some of the best advisors in private wealth management in the world, for the 6th consecutive year.

Liz Allen, head of the family law team at Exeter-based Stephens Scown LLP, has been selected to appear in the Honours section of the 2014 edition of the ‘Citywealth Leaders List’ which is published later this year.

Liz also features on the ‘Power Women’ list, which has been compiled for the first time this year.

She is the only female family lawyer in the South West to have been named in...

A small market town on the edge of Dartmoor will become the focus for some of the best contemporary craft in the country this June. The Contemporary Craft Festival at Bovey Tracey is one of the key events in the national crafts calendar. Almost 200 makers from all over Britain will be demonstrating, selling and talking about their work. Visitors to the event will be able to meet the makers and buy their work – a range of jewellery, ceramics, textiles, furniture, prints and other contemporary crafts. The Craft Festival also features demonstrations, talks, exhibitions and activities...

East Devon District Council (EDDC) housing officers and cleansing operatives moved in this week to clean up a flat vacated by a tenant after a court granted the council possession of the premises.

After a 13-year reign of anti social behaviour, the Exmouth flat has finally passed back into the hands of landlords East Devon District Council – to the relief of council staff and long-suffering neighbours.

EDDC applied to the courts in March this year for a possession order to take back the flat in Cheshire Road, Withycome Raleigh. The order was granted, but the tenant was...

The Exeter Dental Centre, an advanced dentistry practice in the heart of Exeter, has been overwhelmed by the good wishes of its patients after winning the Best City Centre Business 2014 accolade at the recent Exeter Business Awards.

Hosted at Sandy Park, The Exeter Dental Centre fought off stiff competition to take home the award after a glitzy reception held on April 4th.

Talking about the win, owner and principal dentist Mike Hesketh said: "I am so proud of the whole team. It's great to get this recognition and I am really proud to be crowned the Best City...

With Exeter Central Library due to re-open to the public in a little over three weeks here’s a quick sneak peak at what to expect. The long-awaited library is expected to open on May 22 following a £4.2m revamp; updating the libraries facilities for a more modern service. The new building holds more than 60,000 books, CDs and DVDs on over a km of shelves while another 150,000 are available on request from the libraries reserve stack. A new suite of 34 computers with printing and copying facilities, available for free for up to 2 hours a day along with free Wi-Fi, also complement the...

Volunteer business mentors will have helped 1,000 unemployed people across Devon and Cornwall to start their own businesses by this summer, according to Business Information Point (BIP). However, this target can only be reached if more volunteer business mentors step forward.

Since June 2011, 821 unemployed people across Devon and Cornwall have started their own business as part of the New Enterprise Allowance (NEA) scheme and just over half of these (415) were set up in 2013. The national NEA programme, which is funded by the government’s Department for Work and Pensions (DWP),...

One of Exeter’s most successful networking groups for young professionals – Gilbert Stephens’ Young Professionals Network (YPN) – held informal drinks at the law firm’s Southernhay office just before Easter.

Isabel Bertram, a solicitor at the firm and one of the founders of the networking group, which now boasts over 200 members, comments: “This is one of our annual networking events and it is always really well attended. On the night, we welcomed a number of new recruits to YPN and it is great to see that, even three years on, our group is still well received by young...