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Exeter Airport has notched up its fourth successive year of growth in 2016 with passenger numbers up to 847,372.

Latest CAA figures show that 25,583 more passengers used Exeter last year, up 3% on the year before. The figures include the airport’s best August in eight years, when more than 100,000 people passed through the terminal.

But the strongest growth was in November and December, up 11% and 13% respectively on the back of new winter sun flights to Alicante and Malaga in Spain, which started at the end of October.

The flights were made possible by an...

Shaldon Bridge is set to be raised once a year to ensure that the recently refurbished structure remains operational and to allow essential maintenance.

Last Friday (February 17) Devon County Council contractors, under the direction of the authority’s Bridges Team, successfully completed a trial raising of the bridge’s lifting span. An Act of Parliament requires that the bridge, which links Shaldon with Teignmouth across the River Teign, remains operational. The current 324-metre long bridge was completed in 1931, but it has been many years since the lifting span was used for...

Reed Hall, Exeter University was the perfect setting for Life Education Wessex's very first fundraising event in Devon to help raise funds to support health, wellbeing and drug prevention education for children in primary schools across the county.

The event was hosted by Travelling Trends who provided all the latest high street branded clothing at highly discounted prices. Miss Devon, Brianna Evans along with Eliza Tidball, Fran Rigby, Gail Russell, Zilla Harford and Juliette Dubieniec modelled the latest high street fashions including spring and summer collections for all shapes...

Marks & Spencer (M&S) has announced it will open a new Foodhall in Exmouth on Wednesday 29 March at 10am.

The new store located on Royal Avenue, just a minute’s walk from Exmouth train station, will offer customers the very best of M&S’s innovative, high quality food and drink products. Customers at M&S Exmouth will be assisted by a team of 59 colleagues, the majority of whom have been newly recruited from the local area. The Foodhall will offer a variety of M&S’s everyday essentials, popular prepared meals, delicatessen foods, beers, wines and spirits. For...