Following the long-running success of BBC Two’s living history series, Victorian, Edwardian and Wartime Farm, a new series will be exploring life at the end of the Middle Ages in Tudor Monastery Farm. University of Exeter historian Professor James Clark was the programme consultant for the six part series in which he features onscreen as the team’s guide and mentor from the monastery, dressed in an authentic medieval habit. The first episode of the new TV series will be broadcast on Wednesday 13 November at 9pm.

The programme will turn the clock back to the year 1500, as a team of...

Devon County Council has for the first time been ranked the country’s top performing local authorities for highways and transport services, according to a national survey.

Devon was among 70 highway authorities, including 25 county councils, which took part in the 2013 National Highways and Transport Public Satisfaction Survey (NHT Survey).

It is the sixth year of the random postal survey, conducted by Ipsos MORI, which is the most comprehensive public satisfaction survey for highways and transport. The survey questions are based on highway maintenance, road safety, public...

Exeter City Council and Exeter College are joining forces in an effort to combat the problem of littering in Northernhay Gardens and Bury Meadows Park.

The council and the college have been tackling the issue which they believe is caused by a small minority of young people who fail to behave responsibly.

Council staff regularly engage with people using the parks, asking them to put their rubbish in the bins provided.

The college already stresses in its induction programme the responsibility its students have to the wider community, and follows this message up at...

Firefighters across England and Wales have set a date for a fourth strike action on the 13 November.

Members of the Fire Brigades Union (FBU) will also hold a new ballot to decide if to take further industrial action and what forms they should take.

As in previous actions FBU members will strike for a set hour time period before returning to work.

This strike will take place for four hours between 10am and 2pm on Wednesday 13 November.

Fire minister, Brandon Lewis criticised th move towards further industrial action.

He said: “It is disappointing...

As part of it’s ambitious growth plans, award winning digital agency Rokk Media which develops bespoke software, mobile apps and websites, has recently welcomed successful local entrepreneur Robert Pocock to its board as a non-executive director.

Robert has spent the last 20 years assisting businesses at board level to achieve rapid growth. Over 5 years as Group Finance Director at Orchard Media he was influential in the business achieving impressive profits and culminating in a £25m sale. As Commercial & Finance Director at Lets Go Travel he shared responsibility for driving...

Sandy Park, home to the Exeter Chiefs, has today been confirmed as the venue for the final of this year's LV= Cup competition. The announcement was made at the Devon venue ahead of the launch of the 2013/14 tournament by former England international and LV= Cup ambassador Lewis Moody. The final, which will take place on Sunday, March 16, 2014, promises to not only showcase some of the best up and coming rugby talent in the country but provide a truly memorable experience for supporters. This season, LV= will be showcasing how rugby can bring people together and create a "rugby family”....

Guido (Guy) Fawkes and his co-conspirators entered Parliament with honest intentions for an alternative long-term vision for England. In their case this was a Roman Catholic not Anglican future, and they were not successful. This leads to the question, ‘who looks for the future of our communities’? Who is really concerned about their well-being in 50-80 years time, or beyond? How will we travel, trade, resource and feed ourselves in 2063? In a society obsessed with instant gratification for individuals the prospects for community futures are not clear, so who does care? Probably not...

Owners of missing dog, Rosie the greyhound, have thanked TED readers and Twitter users for their help in the eleven-day dog hunt.

Hundreds tweeted and re-tweeted to make sure that people kept the eyes open for the missing pooch.

Rosie the greyhound was found on Monday, 4th November on Trendlebere Moor at a little before 9am.

Caroline Woffindale, Rosie's owner had searched non-stop for ten days when she had to return to work in Oxford on Sunday night.

The hunt saw Jenny Brown travel from Kent to help in the hunt using specially trained tracking dog Tiga to...

A sweetshop has been fined £1400 for selling fake Wonka chocolate bars for £3 a bar which were really ASDA own-brand bars costing only 30p. An investigation by a South Wales Council’s trading standards team found the sweetshop were buying Smart Price chocolate bars from ASDA and re-packaging them as Nestlé’s premium ‘WONKA’ brand making more than £2 in profit from each bar they sold. Sweet66 Ltd, based in Cwnbran, South Wales was found guilty of eight offences including breach of trademark and misleading customers.

In a hearing at Newport’s magistrates’ court it was revealed that...