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The pioneering work of a charity based at a prison in Devon is in the international spotlight after a talk from TEDxExeter was selected to appear on TED.com, the 11th TEDxExeter talk to be featured on the global ideas channel.

In a moving talk at TEDxExeter in April, Alan Crickmore explained how Storybook Dads helps prisoners to keep in touch with their children by enabling them to record stories they can listen to at home – and how this benefits society.

“Every year in the UK, 200,000 children experience the shame and isolation of a parent in prison,” he said. “It can...

Overnight closures on the Exeter-bound carriageway of the A380 Telegraph Hill will be needed for four evenings from Monday (10 December) to replace safety barriers.

A section of the barrier near Kenn was damaged in a collision last month. For the safety of motorists the whole length, of around 150 metres, will be removed and replaced with new barriers. Both lanes of the Exeter-bound carriageway between the Texaco garage and Splatford Spilt will be closed from 6pm to 6am each evening from Monday 10 December through to the morning of Friday 14 December. The closures will only be...

In recent years, the pollution of our oceans has become a major issue. There have been several campaigns that have come to the fore, however 2018 has been the year that saw a real move away from the use of plastic.

This is probably thanks to Sir David Attenborough, who famously used the return of Blue Planet to lament the condition our waters are in. By singling out this very serious issue and placing it in a primetime slot on a show that took a decade to return, the message was loud and clear: it’s time to think about what’s happening to our ocean floors.

While the more...

Over 500 items of food have been donated by Exeter businesses to support local families this Christmas. The generous companies made the donations in aid of the Exeter Foodbank at an event staged by NatWest at the city’s Cookery School recently. Last year more than 5,500 people, including 1,610 children, needed to use the foodbank, which was launched in 2008 to help people affected by financial crisis. In just two years the average number of people using the service each week has doubled to 180 and staff say this likely to increase to over 200 in 2019. Over 100 companies attended the event...