The South Devon Link Road project is celebrating after winning a regional highways industry award.
Devon County Council, Torbay Council and Galliford Try won the 'Large Transportation Project Award' at the Chartered Institution of Highways and Transportation (CIHT) awards held last week.
The CIHT South West Awards – run by the UK’s leading transportation professional institution - are intended to recognise the best projects completed, substantially completed or having reached a significant milestone in 2015.
The shortlisted projects were selected based on entrants...
Police have released an Evofit image of a suspect wanted in connection with a burglary in Exmouth.
On Friday 12th February a man knocked on the door of a property in Greenpark Road, Exmouth at around 1pm. The man discussed tree cutting with the elderly resident who realised her property had been searched when he left.
A number of wallets were stolen containing more than £2,000 in cash.
The suspect is described as white man, around 5ft 6ins, of slim to medium build, with short dark hair and with wearing dark clothing. He spoke in a deep gruff voice with an Irish...
People in Exeter are being invited to tuck into a big Fairtrade breakfast on Saturday 5 March.
The event is being organised by Exeter Fairtrade City Steering Group to raise awareness of Fairtrade products and support farmers and suppliers from around the globe who often find it difficult to earn enough to feed their own families.
Fairtrade Fortnight starts on Monday (29 February) and runs until 13 March.
Martin Luther King once famously said, ‘before you finish eating breakfast in the morning, you’ve depended on more than half the world’ . Despite our dependence on...
WAM -Weather Art and Music, an award-winning Special Interest Group of the Royal Meteorological Society, is to hold its next event in Exeter.
In collaboration with the University of Exeter, Double Elephant Print Workshop, the Met Office and the Royal Meteorological Society, the WAM Extreme Weather Event will be a diverse day of exploration and interaction for all ages, and an evening of entertainment and discussion.
The Extreme Weather Event will look at our experience of extreme weather in Devon, and how it fits into a pattern of changing climate.
Someone paying rent for an average two bedroom home in the South West would have forked out £38,137 to their landlord over the last five years, new analysis by housing and homelessness charity Shelter reveals today.
This is just under the sum needed for a 20% deposit on the average first time buyer home in the region, which is currently priced at £195,672.
With millions of renters caught in a ‘rent trap’, paying sky high housing costs and unable to keep up with rocketing house prices, the research pulls out the areas where ‘generation rent’ are forking out the most....
Young people across the UK will to continue to benefit from lower bus fares after Stagecoach extended a national offer.
Following the successful introduction of a £2 Dayrider ticket for under 19s, the offer has been extended for a further six weeks to allow young people to benefit over the Easter period. More than 300,000 tickets offering unlimited travel within local regions were sold across the country during February.
The special tickets offer substantial discounts when compared to current Dayrider ticket prices and build on the existing offers Stagecoach South West has...
With Craig Campbell’s record Everest base camp show looming ( www.standuponeverest.co.uk ) beyond his hip-reshaping operation and a winter of snowboarding comedy shows, the challenge of keeping the wounded Moose’s chin up ensures ‘Don’t Look Down’ to be his most appropriately titled show yet!
This internationally acclaimed comedian is one of stand-up’s most charismatic and inventive performers with hilarious tales of globetrotting adventure never failing to impress (one expectant mother laughed so hard her waters broke!).
Children’s Hospice South West (CHSW) is in need of your vote this week as the charity has been shortlisted to win a pot of funding to pay for its project: ‘Time to Play’.
The People’s Projects gives the public the chance to have a say in how Lottery funding is spent in their community through an online vote. CHSW is hoping to get support for its ‘Time to Play’ project which is to support play activities at Little Bridge House hospice in Devon and Little Harbour in Cornwall.
When your lives are overtaken with administering medication, feeding, appointments and sleepless...
Police are warning members of the public to be vigilant when buying items from free advertising sites such as Gumtree.
The warning comes after several incidents have been reported to police in the Exeter, Lympstone and Brixham areas.
Suspects have been advertising white goods for sale on internet websites and delivering the items to customers. However, when the items are delivered they are not of the description that was advertised on the adverts.
One Exeter woman had ordered a fridge from Gumtree and was left distressed after a man delivered an item wrapped in...
