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The Youth and Business Achievement Awards 2015 recognise, celebrate and inspire local 16–24 year olds and Local businesses to continue to jointly building a positive productive community to work and live in. It's especially important to build on this in tourist areas such as Kingsbridge and Salcombe were work, can be of a seasonal nature.

The awards also highlight the importance of ensuring the young people are work ready for their needs and that of the local business community, proving the benefits of external and in house training on various levels, blended and on line learning...

Exeter Airport is celebrating its best performance in six years with passenger numbers up by almost 7% to more than 800,000.

Figures just released show that the airport handled 816,379 passengers in 2015, compared to 763,902 the year before, an increase of 6.9%. The last time the airport had more than 800,000 passengers was in 2009.

Exeter Airport managing director Matt Roach said: “This is our third year of sustained growth and reflects the first full year of the daily London City service, the return of flights to Newcastle, and increased frequency to Manchester.

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Rob Baxter admits he sees a lot of similarities in new signing Dave Dennis to that of former Exeter Chiefs skipper Dean Mumm.

It was back in 2012 that Baxter brought Australian international Mumm to Sandy Park from Super Rugby outfit NSW Waratahs.

Three years later and Mumm departed Sandy Park as somewhat of a club legend, having made quite an impression during his time in Devon with the Chiefs.

Now back in Sydney, Exeter’s former talisman - who helped lift the LV= Cup back in 2014 - has played his part in helping to persuade 30-year-old Dennis to follow a similar...

The directors of a long established family-run home care agency today said justice had been done after a former member of staff was sent to prison.

Melanie Harris, from Fremington, had denied fraud when she appeared before Exeter Crown Court last year.

The case was adjourned for reports and today Harris was jailed for two and a half years by Philip Mott QC who described her as dishonest and mean.

Harris (44) stole thousands of pounds over a period of four years from Edward Carter who lived in North Devon.

Emily Whittaker, a Director and Registered Care...

A new year, a new partnership as Exeter Airport has chosen the UK’s leading cancer charity; CLIC Sargent, as their charity of the year for 2016.

Exeter Airport’s members of staff voted to support CLIC Sargent this year as they wanted to help families in the area who are affected when a young person has been diagnosed with cancer. During the airport’s association with the charity over 800,000 people will travel on 40 routes and there will be giving opportunities whilst the passengers are in the catering and retail areas of the airport.

The airport be promoting local fund-...

Designs for a new play area at Knightshayes are to inject new life into four fallen trees which were the victim of some of the worst storm damage the National Trust estate has ever seen.

The designs, which include a tree house and tunnels bored into the trunks, will form a new natural play area looking to reintroduce risky play into a safe world.

For 150 years, the cluster of four oak trees towered over the gentle rolling Devon landscape at Knightshayes – until the high winds of in the winter of 2014 resulted in all four blowing down.

Three came down in one night,...

Police are appealing for witnesses after a driver died on Sunday night following a crash in South Devon.

A spokesman for Devon & Cornwall Police said: “At 11.55pm on Sunday the 31st of January police were notified of a road traffic collision in the Teign Valley near Sowton Mill.

“The collision involved a Daihatsu Fourtrak that was heading in the direction of Dunsford when it crossed the carriageway onto the offside of the road and continued into the offside hedgerow.

“The driver was removed from the vehicle but was unfortunately pronounced deceased a short time...

A leading behavioural ecologist from the University of Exeter has become the 1,000th researcher to receive a national fellowship for her pioneering research contributions in the field of social evolution and animal behaviour.

Dr Lauren Brent has received a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship to support her research on social dynamics and the evolution of cooperation in animal societies.

Her proposed research will examine the exchange of cooperative behaviours between free-living rhesus macaque monkeys with the aim of uncovering the systems that allow the persistence of...