To describe Cheltenham Town as Exeter City’s ‘bogey team’ would be selling it a little short.
The clubs have only met eight times throughout their history – mostly owing to the Robins only becoming a Football League club for the first time in 1999 – but Cheltenham have won every single fixture.
The first meeting came on Boxing Day in 1999, when a goal midway through the second period by Jon Gittens was scant consolation, as the hosts had raced to a three-goal lead at Whaddon Road before half-time.
Members of a scheme to tackle rising energy prices have saved a staggering £23,000 off the cost of their domestic heating oil, this year.
Devon County Council says it’s a great example of communities working together to get a better deal on their heating bills.
The Devon Oil Collective works on the principle of buying heating oil in bulk through consolidating its members’ orders and placing them monthly through a dedicated broker who negotiates the best possible price on their behalf.
Typically members are obtaining oil prices 4.67 pence per litre cheaper than the...
Two men from an Exeter based company have been found guilty of misleading consumers with a scheme which targeted unhappy timeshare owners.
Neil Mendoza, 60 and Michael Girvin, 53 managers of ‘Devon Based Associates Ltd’ approached unhappy customers of well known timeshare companies.
They promised, disgruntled customers the chance of a refund and compensation by joining a legal action against the companies ‘mis-selling’ the product.
However once they attended the meeting at their offices in Matford Business Estate, the timeshare owners were pressured into contracting...
The education charity behind a ground-breaking multicultural history project in Exeter believes it will have a lasting legacy in the city – and says it should be rolled out at other cities across the country.
The Heritage Lottery-funded Telling Our Stories, Finding Our Roots (TOSFOR) project officially ended on 20 December but volunteers will continue to maintain the website and work with local primary and secondary schools. The charity, Devon Development Education, is also hoping that the public will carry on submitting stories to the website about people and places from Exeter’s...
£90,000 is to be spent on improvements to the skate park in Honiton after young people in East Devon voted for the project.
113 young people in the area voted for the new design for their skate park at three voting events held by East Devon District Council (EDDC). They got to vote on which one of four designs they wanted installed, the winner with 88% of all votes was Option D, a design from 1Skateparks. EDDC will now work with 1Skateparks to get this design installed and opened by early summer 2014. The £90,000 has come from EDDC’s main budget and is being spent on Honiton skate...
A 46-year-old man from Newton Abbot has died after attempting to rescue a dog from a fast-flowing river.
Police, along with the fire service and paramedics were called to the River Lemon in Newton Abbot after reports that a man was in the river.
The man jumped into the river to rescue his black labrodor dog who had jumped into the river and been swept away. A number of 999 calls were made by members of the public, around 11.15am, after the man appeared to have got into difficulty in the fast flowing water near to the Asda store.
Preparatory work is due to start in January to widen Bridge Road in Exeter, in an attempt to improve traffic flow in and out of the city.
Bridge Road is currently a traffic congestion hotspot, suffering from tailbacks which block the Countess Wear junction and its approach routes.
Devon County Council is planning to widen Bridge Road to provide two continuous outbound lanes from Countess Wear to the Matford roundabout in order to tackle queuing and reduce journey times for all traffic, while at the same time improving pedestrian and cycle facilities.
Devon businessman Alex Wren caught these dramatic images of waves lashing Sidmouth seafront in a YouTube video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HnutWy2QSb8&feature=youtu.be
Passing cars feel the full force of the storm and buildings are showered with water.
In another seaside town a car was blown onto its roof.
Emergency services in Teignouth were called out after the incident but luckily the driver wasn't seriously injured.
