A local soldier is challenging himself to cycle 1000 km on a stationary bicycle for Blind Veterans UK, the national charity for vision impaired ex-Service men and women. Steve Tonking, aged 34 and from Exeter, enjoys tackling fitness challenges and will be running the London Marathon for Blind Veterans UK later this year. He is now set to raise the bar and cycle a distance of 1000 km which is equal to cycling from Beeston, Nottingham to John O’Groats. Steve said “I wanted to challenge myself physically whilst raising as much money as possible for Blind Veterans UK at the same time. My...
A car driver has died following a collision with a lorry on the A39 near Bideford this morning (Wednesday 14 January).
Police and other emergency services were called shortly before 6.53am to the collision.
The red Volvo lorry, registered to Bideford, overturned, shedding its load of logs across the carriageway on the A39, two miles from Bideford, towards Barnstaple.
Paramedics treated the driver of the silver Subaru Impreza at the scene before taking him to North Devon District Hospital with life threatening injuries.
The Donkey Sanctuary, Sidmouth has teamed up with local woodland co-operative AxeWoods to offer local people the chance to collect free firewood for a limited period this month.
Recent coppicing operations at one of The Donkey Sanctuary’s farms in Sidmouth have produced a large volume of willow that the charity is offering to local people to collect for firewood on key dates at the end of January.
Events and Wildlife Manager for The Donkey Sanctuary, James Chubb, explains: “After coppicing an area of our willow beds we’ve now got a great stack of wood that we’d like to...
Police and other emergency services are at the scene of a serious collision involving a car and a lorry on the A39 near Bideford.
The lorry has overturned, shedding its load of logs across the carriageway two miles out of Bideford, towards Barnstaple.
Paramedics treated the car driver at the scene and he has been taken to North Devon District Hospital with potentially life threatening injuries.
Serious collision investigators are carrying out an investigation into the cause of the collision that happened shortly before 6.53am on Wednesday 14 January.
Exeter’s most popular student music collective returns for another eclectic night of electronic music across 4 rooms at Exeter Phoenix.
The Christmas DJ Showcase was quite the climax to a memorable term for underground nightlife in Exeter. Some of the hottest names in dance music performed at the Cavern, the Lemon Grove and Exeter Phoenix including Waze & Odyssey, Sigma, Star Slinger and DJ Zinc. These artists represented different genres in the dance music spectrum and the DJ Showcase aims to represent this diversity across the multiple rooms at Exeter Phoenix.
Score is a musical play from Documental Theatre about friendship, dognapping and two-part harmonies. It’s inspired by the frank and funny accounts of parents using Bournemouth drug treatment services.
Hannah is an X Factor aficionado with a mile-a-minute mouth, a ten year-old daughter and a low-level Heroin habit.
Her childhood friend, Kirsty, who has never “picked up”, is pulled along in her slipstream days before giving birth.
Two years later they meet at a child contact centre. Hannah’s joined a choir to replace one kind of score with another, but she’s the last...
East Devon District Council is offering a temporary parking solution to Exmouth residents in Camperdown Terrace, Trinity Road and Point Terrace, who are potentially facing a shortage of on-street parking spaces over the next three months.
From January to March, while South West Water is undertaking a programme of sewerage works, residents in those roads can buy - for just £10 - a monthly temporary parking permit for either Imperial Road Recreational Ground Long Stay or Estuary Long Stay car parks.
With local elections in East Devon taking place on 7 May (coinciding with the date for the General Election), Returning Officer Mark Williams will shortly be embarking on a mini tour of the district to explain the procedures for standing as candidates for towns, parishes or the district council.
The events will be in Axminster, Cranbrook, Exmouth and Honiton.
The roadshows are a repeat of an initiative Mark has undertaken every four years in the run-up to local elections to make people aware that they could play an active part in local democracy either representing their...
People in Devon are being urged to take extra care when travelling later today and overnight, with widespread snow forecast.
Localised showers are expected to turn wintry from around 6pm tonight onwards, with The Met Office issuing a yellow alert for the risk of snow, particularly on higher ground and in the north of the county. However, snow may fall across any part of Devon.
Devon County Council, the Highways Agency, and Devon and Cornwall Police are advising motorists to check the weather forecast and road conditions before setting out.
