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Visit South Devon is this week launching a new holiday special offers app to help visitors pack a punch with their pound. Offering a one-stop shop for discounts on local accommodation, food and drink, activities and entertainment, the app has been launched at the start of the school holidays to give a boost to last-minute bookings and to help families make the most of their money over the summer holidays.

Thought to be one of the first apps of its kind to be launched by a Destination Marketing Organisation, the ‘South Devon Holiday Offers’ app is free to download now on both Apple...

Northcott Beaton, one of Devon’s top insurance companies, has launched a new affinity scheme designed to raise funds for charities and community groups across Devon.

The Exeter Leukaemia Fund is the first charity to sign up to the Free Tenners scheme which will enable charity supporters to raise funds through the purchase of day-to-day insurance products.

The scheme, the first of its kind, will assist charities and community groups with their fundraising efforts when they sign up as a Free Tenners Partner. When supporters of the registered charities and groups purchase...

Teignbridge has introduced new on-the-spot fines of £400 to reduce fly-tipping offences in the district.

The new get-tough powers to issue fixed penalty notices for small-scale fly-tipping offences by an individual or companies came into force following a delegated decision by Teignbridge’s Portfolio Holder for Health and Wellbeing Cllr Sylvia Russell.

Teignbridge has seized the opportunity to take advantage of the law changes that make it easier to take action against offenders. It means that anyone caught fly-tipping may be issued with a fixed penalty notice of £400....

A new £8 million student housing development in Exeter is gearing up for the next intake of students after local contractors Midas Construction finished the 159 room residence this month ahead of the new academic year starting in September. As part of the project, Midas also took down the former cricket pavilion at the Prince of Wales Road venue, replacing it with a new, state-of-the art, two-storey pavilion complete with changing rooms, kitchen, bar and office space which was all built in conjunction with the student accommodation site nearby. The site was built on behalf of developers...