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A leading Devon law firm has scooped a national award at the inaugural Legal Innovation Awards for its ground-breaking iPhone App for clients.

Stephens Scown LLP launched its “My Lawyer” App in November 2014 as a way of allowing clients to keep track of their cases quickly and easily while they were on the move. The App allows clients to view documents, keep up to date with costs, pay bills online and diarise key dates.

Stephens Scown won the Client Management Innovation category of the Legal Innovation Awards beating a number of larger national law firms including Pinsent...

Homebase Garden Academy student, Nicola Oakey, from Exeter, is about to build her first RHS Show garden at BBC Gardener’s World Live (11 - 14 June). Nicola, who started the Academy in September 2014, successfully submitted a design for the ‘Beautiful Borders’ category of the show. The design had to be inspired by the ‘Industrial Heritage of the West Midlands’, so Nicola took this opportunity to celebrate the amazing pottery industry that has flourished in the area, notably Spode and Wedgewood. “I can’t wait to bring my design to life”, said Nicola. “The Garden Academy visits Barnsdale...

AN NHS physiotherapist from East Devon has been selected to compete for Great Britain in the 2015 World Dragon Boat Racing Championships in Canada – just two years after taking up the sport.

Sue Bath, a musculoskeletal (MSK) physiotherapy team lead for the Northern Devon Healthcare NHS Trust, said she was ‘overweight and unfit’ when she moved to the area in 2013.

She did an internet search for ‘things to do in Exeter’, joined the Exe-Calibre Dragon Boat Club soon after and hasn’t looked back since.

Sue, 50, has raced for Exe-Calibre’s mixed and ladies crews in the...

Police in South Devon are appealing for information following a sexual assault on a bus.

The incident occurred between 8.30pm and 8.45pm on Thursday 23rd April whilst the victim, a 17 year old female travelled on a No.12 Stagecoach bus, between Paignton and Newton Abbot.

When the bus stopped at the Arcades near to Fleet Walk, Torquay, an unidentified man was talking to the driver. As the bus continued its journey between Torquay and Newton Abbot, the victim sat upstairs at the very front of the bus when she was joined by this man.

He engaged her in conversation, was...