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Coastal Recycling turns to Scouts for eco help

Ten Scouts from 7th Exmouth Scout Group were on hand to help Coastal Recycling put up bat boxes, bird boxes and install a reptile hibernacula on their recycling site at Kenbury Wood, Kennford, near Exeter.

Coastal Recycling, working with BlueSky Ecology, has developed a new sustainable environmental management plan for the 40 acre site to include a biodiversity enhancement project. The project has involved a complete review of the local habitat and the creation of a plan to support a number of species.

The bat boxes will support the local bat population and are aimed at...

East Devon collision leaves one man dead

A man has died following a serious collision in East Devon this morning.

A car and tractor were involved in the collision at Broad Down in Southleigh at around 11.35 today (Wednesday 14 January).

Police confirmed that one male driver has died and enquiries are currently underway to locate the next of kin.

Highways have been informed, as well as the Serious Collisions Investigation Unit who will carry out an investigation of the scene.

Police are still at the scene and the road is expected to be closed for some time.

Road closures have been put in...

City soldier's 1000 km static bike ride

A local soldier is challenging himself to cycle 1000 km on a stationary bicycle for Blind Veterans UK, the national charity for vision impaired ex-Service men and women. Steve Tonking, aged 34 and from Exeter, enjoys tackling fitness challenges and will be running the London Marathon for Blind Veterans UK later this year. He is now set to raise the bar and cycle a distance of 1000 km which is equal to cycling from Beeston, Nottingham to John O’Groats. Steve said “I wanted to challenge myself physically whilst raising as much money as possible for Blind Veterans UK at the same time. My...

Man dies after collision with lorry in Devon

A car driver has died following a collision with a lorry on the A39 near Bideford this morning (Wednesday 14 January).

Police and other emergency services were called shortly before 6.53am to the collision.

The red Volvo lorry, registered to Bideford, overturned, shedding its load of logs across the carriageway on the A39, two miles from Bideford, towards Barnstaple.

Paramedics treated the driver of the silver Subaru Impreza at the scene before taking him to North Devon District Hospital with life threatening injuries.

He sadly died later in hospital. The...

Free firewood at Donkey Sanctuary

Authored by Mary Youlden
Posted: Wed, 01/14/2015 - 12:04pm

The Donkey Sanctuary, Sidmouth has teamed up with local woodland co-operative AxeWoods to offer local people the chance to collect free firewood for a limited period this month.

Recent coppicing operations at one of The Donkey Sanctuary’s farms in Sidmouth have produced a large volume of willow that the charity is offering to local people to collect for firewood on key dates at the end of January.

Events and Wildlife Manager for The Donkey Sanctuary, James Chubb, explains: “After coppicing an area of our willow beds we’ve now got a great stack of wood that we’d like to...

Serious collision in East Devon

Authored by Mary Youlden
Posted: Wed, 01/14/2015 - 11:56am

Police are at the scene of a serious collision near Colyton.

A car and tractor were involved in the collision at Broad Down in Southleigh at around 11.35am today (Wednesday 14 January).

Highways have been informed, as well as the Serious Collisions Investigation Unit who will carry out an investigation of the scene.

The road is expected to be closed for some time.

Road closures have been put in place at Horse Shoes and Chelsdon Cross.

Any witnesses to the collision are asked to police on 101 quoting reference 290 of 14 January.

Updates as we...

Serious crash closes A39 in Devon

Police and other emergency services are at the scene of a serious collision involving a car and a lorry on the A39 near Bideford.

The lorry has overturned, shedding its load of logs across the carriageway two miles out of Bideford, towards Barnstaple.

Paramedics treated the car driver at the scene and he has been taken to North Devon District Hospital with potentially life threatening injuries.

Serious collision investigators are carrying out an investigation into the cause of the collision that happened shortly before 6.53am on Wednesday 14 January.

The...

Exam Week DJ Showcase

Event Date: 
17/01/2015 - 10:00pm
Venue: 
Exeter Phoenix

Exeter’s most popular student music collective returns for another eclectic night of electronic music across 4 rooms at Exeter Phoenix.

The Christmas DJ Showcase was quite the climax to a memorable term for underground nightlife in Exeter. Some of the hottest names in dance music performed at the Cavern, the Lemon Grove and Exeter Phoenix including Waze & Odyssey, Sigma, Star Slinger and DJ Zinc. These artists represented different genres in the dance music spectrum and the DJ Showcase aims to represent this diversity across the multiple rooms at Exeter Phoenix.

Hold It...

Score

Event Date: 
16/01/2015 - 8:15pm to 17/01/2015 - 8:00pm
Venue: 
Exeter Phoenix

Score is a musical play from Documental Theatre about friendship, dognapping and two-part harmonies. It’s inspired by the frank and funny accounts of parents using Bournemouth drug treatment services.

Hannah is an X Factor aficionado with a mile-a-minute mouth, a ten year-old daughter and a low-level Heroin habit.

Her childhood friend, Kirsty, who has never “picked up”, is pulled along in her slipstream days before giving birth.

Two years later they meet at a child contact centre. Hannah’s joined a choir to replace one kind of score with another, but she’s the last...

Parking permits for Exmouth residents affected by sewerage work

East Devon District Council is offering a temporary parking solution to Exmouth residents in Camperdown Terrace, Trinity Road and Point Terrace, who are potentially facing a shortage of on-street parking spaces over the next three months.

From January to March, while South West Water is undertaking a programme of sewerage works, residents in those roads can buy - for just £10 - a monthly temporary parking permit for either Imperial Road Recreational Ground Long Stay or Estuary Long Stay car parks.

Dates for the works being carried out are:

• Camperdown Terrace - 5...

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