Councillors attended a meeting on 12 August with representatives of the RD&E and highway officers of Devon County Council to discuss hospital parking.
The RD&E is working with the County Council to produce a travel plan intended to reduce the number of hospital staff, patients and visitors who use on-street parking in Wonford.
Some improvements are already taking place with 107 parking spaces being brought back into use after the recent building work and negotiations underway to obtain a further 130 spaces offsite.
Police are appealing for witnesses after a teenager had his teeth knocked out during an assault in Sidmouth at the weekend. The incident happened at around 1am on Saturday 10 August in Ham Lane. The lane, by Sidmouth swimming pool, leads up to the sea front and esplanade. The 16-year-old boy who was assaulted was kicked in the face and his upper two front teeth were completely knocked out. PC Jason Colcutt said: “We would like anyone who may have seen the incident or who was in the area at the time to come forward. This happened on the last night of the Sidmouth Folk Festival and there...
Exeter Chiefs fly-half Gareth Steenson believes the hard work the team have been putting in through pre-season will surface in their first pre-season match against Scarlets this Saturday.
The Irishman has said that the whole team have been impressing as they build towards the start of the new campaign and he is confident that everything will come together in a match environment. “Pre-season has been going really well, it’s been five weeks of hard work and the guys have been putting in some good scores in the gym and the fitness scores are right up there, so we’re at that point now...
