Stagecoach South West today confirmed that it will be launching a new fleet of buses for its busiest Park & Ride route in Exeter.
Starting from 4th January 2016 the Red Honiton Road Park & Ride will have a fleet of four brand new double decker buses, worth £800,000, all of which will feature free Wi-Fi, allowing customers to connect, share and play on the move. The Red Park and Ride route runs from Honiton Road to the city centre up to every 12 minutes, 7 days a week.
Stagecoach will retain its existing fleet of single decker buses used on the Blue (Sowton) and...
Volunteers at the local Exeter-based branch of Samaritans will be on duty across all of Christmas and New Year for anyone who needs someone to listen.
“We know that Christmas isn’t a happy time for everyone. Some people - particularly those on their own, and especially men - find the festive season very difficult” admits Helen Crossfield, director of Exeter, Mid and East Devon branch of Samaritans.
Samaritans volunteers will be available around the clock for anyone who needs to talk, in confidence, about whatever is causing them distress. That applies on Christmas Day,...
Exeter Hospiscare has reassured terminally ill people that its doctors and nurses provide individual and specialist care and do not follow a tick box approach.
The local charity spoke out after the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) said end-of-life care in England must be tailored to the needs of dying patients rather than a "tick-box approach.”
NICE issued a new framework for healthcare professionals to provide people with the best possible care in their last days of life and said patients must be treated with respect and compassion.
The University of Exeter will pioneer new methods for managing and treating chronic health conditions at a ground-breaking new maths-based research centre, it has been announced.
The new centre, led by Professor John Terry from the College of Engineering, Mathematics and Physical Sciences, aims to revolutionise the diagnosis and prognosis of a range of common chronic health conditions.
The Centre is one of five across the UK launched by Life Sciences Minister George Freeman today (16 December) and which will receive part of a £10 million total investment by the Engineering...
A trader who travelled the country offering to clean householders' carpets for rock-bottom prices before hiking his charges by up to 5,400 per cent, has been sentenced for seven offences.
Last month, just before a three day trial was scheduled to start, Mark Dudley of Humber Road, Ferndown, changed his pleas to guilty on four offences under the Fraud Act and three offences under the Consumer Protection from Unfair Trading Regulations.
This week Mr Dudley has been sentenced to eight weeks imprisonment, suspended for two years, and also to do 180 hours Community Service....
Police in Exeter are appealing for witnesses following an attempted robbery in the City.
The incident occurred sometime between Midday and 12.30pm on Sunday 6th December in Pennsylvania Road, Exeter.
The victim, a young woman aged 21 years, was walking alone along Pennsylvania Road, towards Union Road, when a man walked up behind her kicked at her right ankle causing her to fall forward onto the ground on her hands and knees.
He then tried to pull the victim’s handbag from her and move her arm to release the handbag.
Exminster residents came out in force when Father Christmas made a special visit to the village.
Santa delighted young and old alike as he toured the village in a red Morgan, donated for the event by Berrybrook Garage. The event was supported by the whole community with local shops, businesses and St Martins choir all getting involved.
The event, run by Exminster Pre-school, is a popular annual tradition in the village, and this year residents dug deep, donating a total of £233.97.
The Christmas Bazaar was held the following day at Victory Hall, raising a further £1...
Exeter Chiefs star Jack Nowell says he and his team-mates are expecting much tougher resistance from French rivals ASM Clermont-Auvergne when the two lock horns again this Sunday in the European Champions Cup.
Fresh from seeing off last season's beaten finalists 31-14 at Sandy Park last weekend, the high flying Devonians go head-to-head with the same opponents this weekend at the imposing Stade Marcel Michelin.
Cornishman Nowell knows from past experience that French teams on their own patch are a much different proposition and is expecting a backlash of sorts from the...
UK councils are continuing to count the cost of contamination this Christmas. That was the message from Chris Jonas, Director of Business Development at Viridor - one of the UK's largest recyclers.
Against a backdrop of local authority consultations on responses to austerity, Viridor has called on councils to act, following best practice in the UK's top performing authorities to avoid unnecessary and undesirable public sector spending on contamination.
Mr Jonas spoke following the announcement by DEFRA on 1st December of England's top ten recycling authorities.
