A woman has been found dead on the beach at Orcombe point this morning after an extensive search by emergency services.
Emergency services began searching for the woman late last night after concerns were raised for the woman’s welfare.
The woman was discovered by the Dartmoor Search and Rescue Team early this morning at the foot of cliffs in an area inaccessible by emergency services last night.
She was pronounced dead at the scene and Exmouth Coastguard assisted in the recovery of the body.
There are severe delays to traffic on the A38 near Kennford due to a traffic accident. Emergency services including ambulance crews are currently at the scene of the crash.
At around 6.52am today a two vehicles collided on the A38 Southbound at Kennford just passed the Partridge Cycle Shop.
A Ford Transit van left the carriageway into a hedge and a Land Rover overturned. A male driver of the transit was initially trapped, but released by fire service and flown by air ambulance to...
They are the largest Saturday fairs in the Country, and are regularly attended by both trade and thousands of visitors and are a wonderful opportunity to buy or sell.
The stand holders offer a huge selection of quality antiques of all sorts, silver, jewellery, furniture of all periods, retro items, vintage clothing, collectables of every sort, home furnishings, books, postcards, pictures, prints, coins, medals, toys. There is always something special to find at affordable prices.
There hall has easy access for standholders and visitors with parking all around the hall. It...
Exeter Chiefs head coach Rob Baxter has today confirmed that tight-head prop Hoani Tui is to leave the Aviva Premiership club at the end of the season.
The 29-year-old will join Lyon, the current leaders of Pro D2, on a two-year deal this summer after five seasons playing for the Chiefs in both the Championship and the Premiership.
Signed from Italian outfit Calvisano in 2010, the popular Kiwi forward has to date played 109 times for the Chiefs in all competitions, scoring six tries in the process.
A cornerstone of the Exeter pack since his arrival in Devon, Tui not...
Devon County Council’s Heritage Service has received support from the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) for the heritage strand of the Council’s Devon Remembers project, it was announced today.
The Devon Remembers project will commemorate the Centenary of the First World War over the next four years, focusing on the county’s rich legacy of public war memorials.
The HLF element of this project will encourage, co-ordinate and support up to 50 community projects carrying out intergenerational and interpretative projects focusing on the stories behind the individuals recorded on...
Award-winning chartered accountants Francis Clark has announced that TV personality and former Secretary of State Michael Portillo will be the keynote speaker at the firm’s second Finance in the South West seminar to be held in February 2014.
The eagerly anticipated seminar brings together the people representing funding and support streams potentially available to SMEs and includes presentations and participation from major providers of business funding and support, case studies, networking opportunities for owner/managers to ask “one-to-one” questions and coverage of grants, debt...
An exciting new band, Lasair were a great hit at last year's Sidmouth Festival and provide a fresh ceilidh experience from the South West, playing English and Irish tunes with a robust back line.
Tickets £9, concessions available.
More details: https://www.facebook.com/events/546730622079835/?ref_dashboard_filter=upcoming
Exeter Chiefs are excited to announce that X Factor 2013 star Shelley Smith will be performing at this weekend's Heineken Cup encounter with Glasgow Warriors at Sandy Park (3pm).
Exeter-born Shelley, who made it through as one of the 12 contestants to Live Shows working alongside mentor Sharon Osbourne, will be performing live on the pitch at half-time during our latest European fixture.
Bubbly Shelley, a white-van driver from Exeter, entered The X Factor in the hope she could one day make a difference to her and her daughter Madeline’s lives.
Paignton Zoo Environmental Park is celebrating a second orang utan birth in 9 months.
Bornean orang utan Chinta gave birth on Sunday 22nd December.
Paignton Zoo Environmental Park Director of Operations and Curator of Mammals Neil Bemment said: “You wait 16 years and then two babies come along in nine months!” One of the Zoo’s other females, Mali, gave birth to a female baby named Tatau in April.
“Mother and baby have had time together in their off show den away from people and the wind and the rain, but they should have access to the show den in the Ape Centre from...
