Prospective Exeter MP Dom Morris held discussions with the Transport Minister Patrick McLoughlin to press home the importance of the roads infrastructure to the city.
Yesterday (Monday) Prime Minister David Cameron reaffirmed his commitment to make improvements to the A303 which it is hoped will help relieve congestion and improve Exeter's connections to the rest of the country.
After the meeting, Dom said: “With unemployment down by 49% in Exeter since the Conservatives came to power, we are leading the South West’s recovery but improving our transport system is crucial to...
This popular local choir will be preforming again this year in the Events Square, by the Christmas tree, in the Harlequins Centre. They will be singing a mix of traditional carols and songs from the shows.
This year they'll be collecting donations on behalf of Devon Air Ambulance Trust.
The preformance starts at approximately 10.30am until 12pm and is undercover in the middle of the Centre.
From the Guildhall Shopping Centre just follow the sound over the Paul street bridge, ( Follow the walkway down the side of Primark,) or come past Taste (Our cafe) off the Queen...
The East Devon District Council Countryside team are offering an exciting opportunity to explore the heathland after dark, at Fire Beacon Hill near Sidbury between 6pm and 8pm on Friday 14 November.
Search for owls, look at the stars, listen to the sounds in the darkness and find out how good your night time vision really is!
Suggested donation £3.
Suitable for adults and children of 8 years upwards. Booking is essential as places are limited, call 01395 517557 or email Countryside@eastdevon.gov.uk
Princesshay’s security team are to take on a 21 hour endurance walk to raise money for Princesshay’s charity of the year Dream-A-Way starting at 7pm on Friday 21 November and finishing at 4pm the following day on Saturday 22 November.
Dream-A-Way is celebrating its 21st anniversary this year and to mark the occasion and to raise money, Princesshay’s management and security team have been actively fundraising since the beginning of the charity partnership in January.
Mike Kerswell, Security Supervisor has rounded up the troops to take part in the 21 hour endurance walk...
A £659,000 project to deliver even cleaner seas off Teignmouth gets under way today.
South West Water will be constructing a 500 cubic metre underground storage tank in Teignmouth station car park.
This additional storm water storage capacity will reduce the number of discharges from the sewerage network during extremely wet weather. The project is designed to improve bathing water quality at Teignmouth ahead of the European Union's revised Bathing Water Directive, which comes into effect in 2015.
Senior Project Manager Mike Court said: "This represents a major...
A unique development that will provide 18 affordable highly energy efficient homes in Dartmoor National Park, is about to start on-site.
The £3.6million project in Christow is being led by the Christow Community Land Trust (CCLT) and supported by Teign Housing, which has invested £574k and will manage the properties once built.
Most of the properties will be built to full PassivHaus standards, which is one of the highest standards of environmental building. Almost no heating is required and it is believed that the total energy bills for these properties will be just £100 a...
The UK housing marketing is entering a new phase. It has been through a boom, a bust and a recovery cycle, and as we head into 2015 and a year that will see the formation of a new Government, we are now entering a more stable, yet still challenging era.
That’s according to leading property consultancy JLL’s new Residential Market Review, published this month which predicts that South West house prices will rise by 4% in 2015 and 24% over the next five years. This rate of increase is second only to London and the South East and faster than the UK average.
It's a party night this week at Tiverton Community Arts Theatre
TCAT are delighted to be welcoming The Chicago Blues Brothers to Tiverton on 15th November. Show starts at 8pm.
This is all set to be a highly charged, fun, party night. With classic good time songs such as “Everybody Needs Somebody”, “Shake a Tail Feather”, “Soul Man” “Gimme Some Lovin” “ Theme from Rawhide” and many more. The Blues brothers are bound to get everyone dancing.
The mid November date is ideal to start getting everyone in the festive mood.
There was a time when hideous tales of werewolves and hounds struck fear into the hearts of people across Devon. Were these tales just folklore? Or were the stories true? Many people believed it was the latter.
There were so many stories doing the rounds in the 19th century that a whole collection of them were gathered up in his West Country travels by famous song and story collector, the Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould.
Some of the stories from his famous work, The Book of Were-wolves, are the inspiration for a show being taken on a tour of Devon by the Wren Band, who have...
New food labelling regulations that come into force from Friday 12 December will mean that all food products, bought from shops or in cafes and restaurants, will have to display information about its allergen content.
Specific allergens, which can cause serious health problems for some people will need to be highlighted so that consumers can make informed choices about their purchases.
Those allergens include: Cereals containing gluten; crustaceans; eggs; fish; peanuts; soybeans; milk; nuts; celery; mustard; sesame; sulphur dioxide or sulphites (at a level above 10mg/kg or...