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,...
Overnight closures on the A38 at Heathfield are due to start from the evening of Monday 27 April to enable a new bridge to be lifted into place. Work has been progressing well on the scheme during the winter - piling work and foundations of the structure will be completed shortly, and the 38 metre main span, along with the east side approach ramps, will now be craned into position during the overnight closures. A 500 tonne crane will be located on the southbound carriageway to carry out the lift. It is anticipated that four nights are required to complete the work, but five evening...
Plymouth community projects and social enterprises will be able to tap into funds as part of a pioneering crowdfunding scheme which launched last month.
Plymouth City Council has set aside £60,000 for projects on Crowdfund Plymouth – as part of Crowdfunder Local, a nationwide initiative, launched by Crowdfunder - the UK’s leading crowdfunding platform.
Crowdfunding is an alternative means of funding that allows individuals to take their ideas forward and make them a reality with the power of the crowd and change the world around them by promoting projects and giving away...
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...
The Law Management Section's 2015 Financial Benchmarking Survey, sponsored by Lloyds Bank Commercial Banking, and compiled by Hazlewoods LLP, has showed that financial stability in the South West is 'on the up'. Compared with findings from last year's survey, it is clear that there has been a dramatic rise in the percentage of practices operating profitability and within their overdraft limit. One in six were likely to seek external investment for expansion, and a similar number were likely to bring in one or more non-lawyer owners, for example HR, IT, Finance etc. In line with last year,...
Nine Exeter School pupils have received medical offers at top universities across the country.
Six current Upper Sixth pupils have received medical offers this year.
Upper Sixth Former Grace Poole has received an offer to study Medicine at St George’s London. She said Exeter School had been a remarkable place to study her A Levels, from the support of various teachers with her studies and future plans, to the extracurricular activities and sports teams that she has enjoyed being a part of.
“I am leaning towards specialising in a field of Neurology with an open mind...
Join Dartmoor National Park Ecologist Naomi Barker on a walk in the Haytor area to see if you can get a glimpse of one of spring's most evocative birds. Cuckoos have suffered a huge population decline in recent years and in many parts of the country their distinctive call is no longer heard. Naomi will guide you on a fascinating walk in which you will learn more about the work being done to find out what is causing the population decline in this species.
You will also learn about other birds nesting on the moor, such as skylarks and yellowhammers.
Church bell ringers from across Devon will be coming together at Exeter Cathedral on Saturday (25 April) to celebrate the 90th Anniversary of the Devon Association of Ringers.
Bellringers are being invited from all over Devon to come to Exeter to ring for this historic event.
The bells will ring out across the city starting at 10.30am with a 10 bell competition, followed by an 8 bell competition in the afternoon. Concurrently a 6 bell competition will take place at St Petrock’s.
A special Evensong will take place at 4pm to which everyone is invited to celebrate and...
Police are renewing their appeal for the public’s help in locating Gary Knight, 52, from Dawlish, who has been missing for over a week and may be in the Exeter area.
Gary (pictured) went missing from the Haldon Terrace area of Dawlish at around 11.30am on Sunday 12 April and officers are growing increasingly concerned for his welfare.
The last confirmed sighting of him was in the Gresham House Inn, Dawlish, on the night he went missing.
Officers have been searching and making enquiries in the Dawlish, Exeter and Torquay areas, but so far have been unable to locate...
