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Devon & Somerset Fire & Rescue Service today issued advice to the owners of thatched properties following a blaze which destroyed a thatched cottage in Ide, near Exeter last week.

Twelve fire engines were at the incident in Little John’s Cross and fire crews have re-visited throughout the weekend to dampen down hotspots.

Firefighters covered neighbouring thatched properties with foam to prevent the fire spreading and worked hard to save as much of the building and its contents as possible.

The fire is believed to have started inside the building before...

The latest Reading Well Books on Prescription scheme will be launched across Devon’s libraries on 2 February, to support people with dementia and their carers.

The scheme, which already helps over 275,000 people across the country with common mental health conditions feel better through self-help reading, is now turning its attention to the enormous need for quality-assured support for dementia care in the UK.

The national Books on Prescription scheme supports people with book-based therapy for common mental health conditions, through local libraries. It has played an...

Last year the Exeter City FC Supporters’ Trust, with the help of others, did a great deal of work in pulling together all the facts, photos and other information about Exeter City FC’s historic tour of South America.

While the Club planned the amazing centenary trip to Rio de Janeiro, the Trust helped with the production of the book Have You Ever Played Brazil? and the Northcott production of The Day We Played Brazil.

The Trust also produced an exhibition and set up a website www.grecianvoices.com

Now, for anyone who may have missed out on last year's events or...

One of Devon’s biggest independent holiday parks is enjoying a record-breaking start to the year, with bookings up nearly 50%.

Multi-award winning Ladram Bay Holiday Park, on the Jurassic coast overlooking its own bay and beach between Sidmouth and Budleigh Salterton, saw bookings rise by 46% in the first full week of January, and then by 52% the following week, compared with the same period in 2014.

Ahead of re-opening after the winter break on Friday March 13, work is well underway on phase two of a £10 million re-development at the family-run park, with the swimming pool...

A public exhibition will be held at the weekend displaying proposed changes to on-street parking in Teignmouth.

Devon County Council has been consulting with Teignmouth Town Council and local stakeholders on the development of a Traffic Management Plan for the town.

The initial proposals for the plan will go on display at The Methodist Hall, Somerset Place, in Teignmouth, on Friday 30 January and Saturday 31 January.

The plan has been developed following requests from the public to consider a number of issues including providing residents’ parking on street,...

A share of £100,000 is up for grabs as part of a new community energy competition launched today by Energy and Climate Change Secretary, Edward Davey. Community groups and other eligible organisations across England are invited to apply for the funding to develop innovative energy-saving ideas that could help slash energy bills.

Ideas can be anything from hosting an energy advice stall in your local shopping centre, to crowd-funding solar panels for your local church or running a ‘buddy’ programme to help vulnerable households get to grips with their energy bills, switch energy...

Detectives in Dorset searching for 25-year-old Samantha Henderson from Corfe Castle, who is believed to have connections in Exeter, have released CCTV footage of her the day she disappeared.

Samantha, of Halves Cottages, was reported missing at 8.43am on Thursday 22 January 2015.

The last confirmed reported sighting of the mother-of-four was at around 3pm on Wednesday 21 January 2015 outside Corfe Castle Primary School in East Street.

Following initial investigations, a 27-year-old man from Corfe Castle who is known to Samantha, was arrested on suspicion of her...

Exeter based charity, South West Grid for Learning Trust, has been awarded a prestigious Bett award in the ‘ICT Leadership and Management Solutions’ category. Coinciding with Bett, the world’s largest technology in education show, the awards are considered the highest accolade in the industry. The Bett Awards play a key role in identifying and rewarding innovative ICT resources and services for use in education. The winning organisations were announced at the Bett Awards dinner in London on Wednesday 21 January. The South West Grid for Learning is a not-for-profit charitable trust...

A low carbon heating project led by E.ON working with the University of Exeter and technology providers SK Solar and Star Renewable Energy has been awarded a Government research grant to carry out the feasibility work to create a UK-first community-wide energy scheme based on emissions-free renewable energy sources.

The project, to be funded by the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC), is based at E.ON’s energy centre in Cranbrook to the east of Exeter will seek to demonstrate how solar thermal panels and heat pumps can replace or work alongside the existing gas-fired...