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The partners of Haines Watts, Exeter celebrate national success as Accountancy Firm of the Year – Small, Medium Size Entities (SMEs), at the annual Financial Directors (FDs) Excellence Awards. This award follows on the back of the Haines Watts group winning Auditor of the Year in the SME category for two consecutive years beating off stiff competition from other leading local firms.

Ben de Cruz, Managing Partner Haines Watts Exeter said: “It’s great to see Haines Watts win such a prestigious award particularly as it is voted for by business people, and not by an academic panel of...

A Devon community project has won this year’s Prince of Wales Award for its work in tackling isolation, loneliness and ill health in rural communities.

The Community Support Group, based in the village of Newton St Cyres near Crediton and sees volunteers offered assistance to local people as part of the Neighbourhood Health Watch Scheme. The project, part of the Neighbourhood Health Watch Scheme, is the first community health project to win the accolade which is normally awarded to local services or the environment. The award, which will be presented at the Devon County Show (May...

Reg and Margaret Nott celebrated their 65th wedding anniversary on 30 April.

Eighty-nine year old Reg and Margaret, 84, were married at St Mary’s Church in Morchard Bishop and farmed at East Worlington until 1990 when they moved to Crediton.

Reg is a keen gardener and grows flowers and vegetables.

Both love quiz programmes, their favourite being Countdown. Their Countdown-themed anniversary cake even had the word “anniversary” on it with the letters jumbled up, just like the TV quiz.

Reg and Margaret said when they met it was love at first sight, although it...

Wyn and Peter Saunders from Crediton recently celebrated their diamond wedding anniversary with a lunch party at the Anchorage Hotel in Babbacombe.

The couple were both born in the London area and met at the South Bank University where Wyn was a student child nurse and Peter was a student dental technician.

They were married at St Matthew’s Church, Surbiton and honeymooned in Devon.

Both were evacuated to Devon during the war, Wyn to Morchard Bishop and Peter to Bideford. In 1967 they moved to Crediton with their four children.

Wyn later worked as an...

Stagecoach South West has today announced plans to introduce a new route replacing the 50, 51, 315 and 377 services.

The new route, the 5, will be introduced on Easter Monday and will see the frequency of buses between Exeter and Crediton increase to once every 15mins.

Beyond Crediton there will be an hourly service to Copplestone. At Copplestone the service splits, with regular onwards connections to Hatherleigh and Okehampton (5A, up to every 2 hours); North Tawton, Winkleigh, Great Torrington and Barnstaple (5B, up to every 2 hours) and Chulmleigh (5C, up to every hour...

A photography student is offering to photograph people's birthday celebrations free of charge and give them a CD containing all the images, in exchange for their help with her photography project.

Karen Sanders, who studies Photography at Bristol UWE, is creating a piece of work which represents the mixed emotions of unwrapping gifts.

She is asking for people to allow her to film them opening just one present, at a venue of their choice, as part of this project.

In return Karen is offering to film any volunteers birthday celebrations for however long they require...

Firefighters from Crediton and Devon and Somerset's Fire and Rescue Service's Specialist Rescue Team from Exeter were called in to save two Bullocks stuck in 4ft of water near Crediton.

On arrival crews found the animals stuck in a slow moving semi-stagnant stream and used water safety equipment to rescue the animals.

A bulllock can cost anywhere between several hundred to several thousand pounds depending on the breed and age of the animal.

Police have charged a 64-year-old woman, Linda Elt from Chawleigh for attempting to damage or destroy property with the intent to endanger life.

Elt was arrested following a stand-off with armed police at a property in Chawleigh yesterday morning

Elt held petrol can and was making threats to harm herself, others and to damage the property.

Due to the nature of the threats the fire service was called to support the police.

She is due to appear in Exeter Magistrate’s Court later this afternoon.

Chartered Accountants Haines Watts Exeter showcases its new branding of the Crediton Office, formerly known as Ocean Consultancy, following the practice merger which took place earlier this year.

A national network established over 80 years ago, with more than 50 offices, each Haines Watts office operates independently offering a wide range of services tailored to the local market. The local office primarily focuses on providing accountancy and taxation services to owner-managed small and medium-sized entities and dealing with private client tax affairs across the South West....

Work on the Crediton Link Road is progressing well and is on schedule.

Devon County Council has confirmed that the scheme is on track to be completed by next Autumn and that earthwork operations will be temporarily suspended over the Christmas period, between 20 December and 6 January.

Since contractor South West Highways started construction in July, around 80% of the bulk earthworks have been carried out. Approximately 190,000 tonnes of excavated earth has been transported nearby to Dunscombe to create a water storage lagoon and to keep the A377 clean, the contractor is...