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With Trustees’ Week running from November 7 to 13, three experts from The Family Law Company are keen to explain why they became trustees with local charities.

There are currently around 194,000 charities in the UK with just over 1 million trustees; just under half are women, and the average age of a trustee is 59 in England and Wales, although 86,000 are aged 16-34.

Donna Hart and Stephen Sowden, who are based in Exeter, and Ann Shears who works at the Plymouth office, have taken on the role of trustee with three very different charities.

Donna became a trustee at...

Want to know more about East Devon’s new recycling and waste service changes next year? Go along to one of the information events taking place.

Service changes in Exmouth from February 2017 and will be rolled out district-wide from June 2017

The first of seven information events to help residents with a new improved recycling collection service which is being introduced in Exmouth from February next year is being held in the town on Thursday. (Thursday Nov 10)

At each event, recycling officers from East Devon District Council, will be on hand to explain the new...

A special service of thanksgiving will be held this Saturday in Exeter Cathedral, two weeks on from the devastating fire which ripped through historic properties on the Cathedral green and destroyed the historic Royal Clarence hotel. Members of all emergency services have been invited to the service and will be thanked for their heroic efforts to stop the fire from spreading. The Dean, the Very Revd Dr Jonathan Draper, said he hoped all those who had been affected in any way by the fire would come along to the short service. “We want to thank the emergency services for their heroic efforts...

Huge demand for the 11th Dartmoor Classic cycling event, which will take place on Sunday 2nd July 2017, has resulted in sell outs for all three routes, with places for the Medio route (67 miles) and Grande route (107 miles) being snapped up in record time.

An estimated 6,000 riders attempted to register for the 4,000 available places, which pits participants against themselves in a ride of endurance across some of Dartmoor’s most spectacular routes. Places for the two longer routes were all taken within the first 24 hours, while the last few places for the 37 mile Piccolo were...