In the wake of three local incidents over the weekend where young people were hospitalised after taking so-called 'legal highs', Police and Crime Commissioner Tony Hogg is urging all sections of the community to join forces to counter the danger posed by an increasing trade in the drugs.
The incidents, two in Exeter and one in Torquay, occurred just days after Mr Hogg confronted staff at a ‘head shop’ in Barnstaple where legal highs were on sale.
"I wanted to ask the staff in the shop if they actually knew what it was they were selling and how dangerous it is." he said....
Councillors attended a meeting on 12 August with representatives of the RD&E and highway officers of Devon County Council to discuss hospital parking.
The RD&E is working with the County Council to produce a travel plan intended to reduce the number of hospital staff, patients and visitors who use on-street parking in Wonford.
Some improvements are already taking place with 107 parking spaces being brought back into use after the recent building work and negotiations underway to obtain a further 130 spaces offsite.
From the bustling streets of New York to the covered markets of London, there is a revolution in progress. Thankfully this is not the blood, sweat and tear gas sort of revolution, but a culinary one – a revolution in street food. This delicious uprising is being led by an ever-growing number of al-fresco gastronomes, each bringing their own brand of unique gourmet food to the masses quite literally at street level.
For us Brits the idea of street food may once have conjured up images of dubious burger vans serving suspicious looking “meat” deep fried to within an inch of its life....
More than 3,000 people in Devon have so far been helped with advice and support from Travel Devon Roadshows.
More than 120 of the free roadshows, organised by Devon County Council, have been held in Exeter, Exmouth, Newton Abbot and Totnes in the past 15 months.
The Travel Devon roadshows are one of the projects developed through Devon County Council’s Local Sustainable Transport Fund which aims to support jobs and businesses by tackling congestion and promoting greater use of sustainable travel.
The free roadshows enable staff to speak to Travel Advisors about...
A gorilla has enrolled at the University of Exeter.
The giant primate arrived wrapped in pretend brown paper, tied with mock string and covered in air mail stickers, stamps and franks from South Africa, Canada, Indonesia, Australia and Cuba.
This striking piece of public art is named Takamanda, after a national park in the Cameroon set up in 2008 to help protect the endangered Cross River gorilla.
She is part of the Great Gorillas Project, which is celebrating the 90th birthday of Paignton Zoo. Life-size model gorillas have been sponsored by businesses and community...
Update 13 August: Samantha Daly-Clarke has now returned home safe and well.
12 August: Police are appealing for information about the whereabouts of a woman reported missing from an address in Exeter. Samantha Daly-Clarke has not been seen in Exeter since Thursday 8 August 2013 and there are growing concerns for her welfare. She is believed to have been in the area of Derriford Hospital, Plymouth since Saturday but her current location is unknown.
Samantha is described as white, 26, approximately 5ft 4inches tall, of medium/heavy build and with shoulder length auburn hair,...
New data from research company ICM reveals that 57% of young people in the South West would choose to do an Apprenticeship if one were available. Nationally, the numbers of young people who would like to do an Apprenticeship rises to 56% of those who are already university students and 66% of those who are already employed, but receiving no training. The increasing popularity of Apprenticeships among young people comes after previous business research, released earlier in 2013, showed that employers find apprentices 15% more employable than young people with other qualifications. In the...
Several calls were received to reports of a combine harvester on fire in a field at Middle Henstill Farm, Sandford, Crediton this afternoon (10 August).
One fire appliance from Crediton and one from Exeter Danes Castle were mobilised to the incident. On arrival crews requested further assistance from Middlemoor to attend with their light off road pumping appliance.
Crews extinguished the fire using approx 1557 litres of compressed air foam, one C02 extinguisher. three beaters and the light pump were used to extinguish 2 acres of cut corn and hedgerow.
