Summer may be over but children still have reason to smile this autumn – new play equipment at Great Hill View Play Area! Children can now enjoy a wider range of play equipment at the site, thanks to Exeter City Council.

A new basket swing, and exciting spinning and rocking roundabout has been provided, along with a goal end incorporating football and basketball provision . These items add to the existing equipment which includes the longest slide in any of Exeter’s parks.

The site has also been generally tidied up, and the previously crumbling and slippery footpath has...

The whittling has finished. The judges of this year's Man Booker Prize started with a daunting 145 novels and have winnowed, sifted, culled, and in some cases hurled, until there was only one left: Budleigh Salterton-based Hilary Mantel 's Bring up the Bodies .

Hers is a story unique in Man Booker history. She becomes only the third author, after Peter Carey and J.M. Coetzee , to win the prize twice, which puts her in the empyrean. But she is also the first to win with a sequel ( Wolf Hall won in 2009) and the first to win with such a brief interlude between books. Her...

In partnership with First Great Western a Brompton folding bike hire scheme, Brompton Dock, has now launched at Exeter St Davids station.

The Exeter Daily was invited to the launch of this exciting new service, where Brompton Dock Managing Director Mark Antwis teamed up with First Great Western General Manager (West) David Crone to demonstrate the simplicity of the system and just how quick it was to assemble the foldaway bikes - 7.7 seconds is the record.

The cycle hire schemes provide members with 24-hour access to Brompton folding bikes, which can be...

Taxpayers' money has been 'wasted' on a council management review from which there will be no final report, says a Devon councillor.

Teignbridge council hired retired local authority chief executive Jeffrey Ligo to review the council's management structure and suggest improvements and potential savings.

But now, after seven months of work, it's been revealed that Mr Ligo has been told not to bother with a final written report to Teignbridge's 46 councillors.

Instead, a report from the council's chief executive, Nicola Bulbeck, on...

The Earl of Wessex officially opened Exeter’s Greenest school today.

His Royal Highness visited Montgomery Primary in St Thomas which has been formally certified as England’s first zero-carbon school.

His Royal Highness spent over an hour touring the building and chatting to pupils, staff, parents and governors.

He said: “Thank you for inviting me and sharing what you are doing in your school

“Its a fantastic and brilliant school."

And he told the children: “Make the most of it and have fun.”

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