Update: A man has been arrested in connection with a burglary at an elderly woman’s home in Tiverton. A 26-year-old man from Newton Abbot has been arrested on suspicion of burglary and has been released on police bail until 5th August pending further enquiries.
The incident took place on Monday 13 April while the woman, who is in her 80s, was in her garden.
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Police have issued an Evofit of a man they are seeking in connection with a burglary at an elderly woman’s home in Tiverton.
A man entered the house around 4pm on Monday 13 April while the woman...
The first major exhibition dedicated to Devon-based artist Benedict Rubbra’s search for a harmonious relationship between form, colour and light starts at Exeter’s Royal Albert Memorial Museum on Saturday 2 May.
Paintings and drawings spanning four decades trace the development of his singular technique; the art works all originate from three-dimensional forms constructed from various materials such as paper and card or wire and wood. Vibrant shapes of light are then projected onto these forms, creating unexpected spaces and colours, tones and shadows. Changed lighting transforms...
East Devon District Council has been alerted by concerned residents to a council tax refund scam, currently being operated in the district.
Residents need to be aware that if anyone contacts them by telephone, claiming to be from East Devon District Council and asks them for bank details due to their account being in credit, they must NOT give them this information. These are hoax calls made by fraudsters.
If residents have any concerns over the legitimacy of a call regarding Council Tax then please contact the council's customer service team on: 01395 517446 to confirm....
A Festival will take place in May at Exmouth Rugby Club to celebrate cider made by those people dedicated to keeping Devon's traditional apple varieties and pressing methods alive.
The type of musical acts you would expect and hope for at a festival like this will be playing, such as London Irish “psycho-cèilidh”band Neck, 50s psychedelic punk from GoGo Cult, blues- grass from Big Joe Bone and folk rock from Ash Mandrake and the Redhillbillies.
RNLI Exmouth will be providing village fete style games during the daytime to promote their volunteer and fundraising initiatives,...
New research has shown that the ability to make a Stone Age hand axe depends on complex cognitive control and memory.
The recently published results knock another chip off theories that pre-historic hand axes are simple tools that don’t involve complex functions of the brain made by ape-men just banging rocks together.
University of Exeter Archaeologist Professor Bruce Bradley co-authored the research with Emory University (USA) and Aix-Marseille University (France) colleagues, which highlights how making stone tools provide some of the most abundant evidence of human...
One of the South West's most exciting theatre companies, Live Wire Theatre, has been awarded grants by the Arts Council England, The Big Lottery and the Bath and North East Somerset Arts Development Fund to stage a production of a newly commissioned comedy play written to celebrate The Rugby World Cup 2015 which is to be hosted in England and Wales this Autumn.
The new comedy intriguingly entitled Hands Up for Jonny Wilkinson's Right Boot by award winning writer Dougie Blaxland will open at The Cotswold Playhouse Stroud on September 10th before touring the South West for the six...
Two day event celebrating the work of the very best artists and makers in the South-West on Exeter's beautiful Cathedral Green.
See work being created, talk to the makers, buy something created with skill and love to treasure and enjoy the free entertainment. Now in its 40th year!
For more information, visit http://www.exetercraftfestival.co.uk
Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT) could provide an alternative non-drug treatment for people who do not wish to continue long-term antidepressant treatment, suggests new research carried out at the University of Exeter and published today in The Lancet.
The results come from the first ever large study to compare MBCT – structured training for the mind and body which aims to change the way people think and feel about their experiences – with maintenance antidepressant medication for reducing the risk of relapse in depression.
A community energy group in mid-Somerset has signed up one of the leading renewable energy legal specialists to advise it on the next stages of its project.
ACE – Avalon Community Energy – will be working with Exeter-based Stephens Scown LLP on its community energy projects. Stephens Scown has the largest dedicated renewable energy team in the South West and works with a number of other community energy groups across the region.
Set up in 2013, ACE is a community owned co-operative that aims to establish renewable energy sources for the Glastonbury, Wells, Street and...
