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Exeter is looking to secure £1.5 million of grant funding to make heritage and arts in the city and beyond even greater than it is now.

The City Council – working alongside the Exeter Cultural Partnership – is to submit an expression of interest to the Great Place Scheme.

Launched by Arts Council England, the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) and Historic England, the Great Place Scheme is offering up £1.5 million to 12 pilot areas to enhance arts and cultural activities. In addition, the national cultural bodies of HLF, Historic England and the Arts Council will provide advice...

Teignbridge District Council has successfully prosecuted a man after a large amount of waste was dumped in woodland.

South Devon Magistrates, sitting in Torquay, ordered Oliver McShane to pay a total of £1,365.98 for flytipping waste including carpet, a toilet, guttering, a bath, DIY waste and rubble, at Grammercombe Woods, Ashcombe in June 2015.

The law requires Teignbridge to remove flytipping from all public land but excludes private land or land under control of other authorities. In this particular case the land is owned privately which means the cost falls to the...

BUSINESSES with cross-border activities are being urged to take tax advice after a major European ruling which could land computer giant Apple with a £11 billion tax bill.

Stuart Rogers, Corporate Tax Partner at chartered accountants and business advisers PKF Francis Clark, was speaking after the EU Commission announced the results of a three year investigation into Apple’s Irish affairs.

The investigation concluded that Ireland's tax rulings had allowed Apple to pay substantially less tax than other businesses with profits attributed to a head office that, according to...

Exeter Royal Academy for Deaf Education has announced exciting plans to build a new world class Deaf Academy on the former Rolle College campus in Exmouth. The ground-breaking new Academy buildings will be designed with deaf people for deaf people and will be the international blueprint for deaf education and residential care.

The Deaf Academy’s Chief Executive, Jonathan Farnhill, informed parents, staff and supporters today that contracts had been exchanged and that work was now starting on a planning application to East Devon District Council. He told them that the seven acre...