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Two directors of a Devon insurance company are set to embark on a big health and fitness challenge all in aid of charity.

Northcott Beaton, insurance brokers based in Heavitree, Exeter, is launching The NB Big Challenge this summer, an annual event, which will see them seek out a new exciting encounter each year.

For 2016, Directors Nick Beaton and Keiron Northcott have chosen to do the Exe Valley Endurance, a 60 mile walk over two days in June. In the run up to the main event they will both be embarking on a journey to get fit and healthy with the support of local health...

When PETA was preparing to protest outside Hermès' flagship London store, the group knew it needed a fashion-forward representation of its latest exposé of the highly secretive industrial ostrich-slaughter industry.

And Devon-based designer Laura Harvey of Curiosity Cabinet Studios had the perfect solution: a gruesome twist on Björk's iconic "swan" dress.

"Laura Harvey was the perfect choice to create a protest piece that's as artful as it is provocative", says PETA Director Mimi Bekhechi. "Her design is a visceral reminder that every ostrich-skin Birkin or Prada bag came...

Rising football stars at one of the region’s junior clubs are the envy of the Exeter & District Youth Football League after being reward for their hard work last season with a brand new training kit, courtesy of a local courier firm.

St Martin’s FC’s Under 15s team has been given the strip by sponsor, Deadline Distribution Services, based on Marsh Barton Trading Estate, Exeter.

Deadline Distribution Services is part of the UK’s largest independent parcel network, APC Overnight, and has been delivering parcels to over 250 customers across the region for 14 years....

England and Exeter Chiefs rugby stars Jack Nowell and Henry Slade will be joining the 19240 Somme Centenary Dinner at Sandy Park on 16th April.

Jack, along with his England teammates, recently wore the poppy on their rugby shirts in their victorious Grand Slam 6 Nations match against France to commemorate 100 years since the Battle of the Somme.

The 19240 Shrouds of the Somme project in Exeter will remember the 19,240 Allied servicemen who died on the first day of that battle on 1st July. Exactly 100 years to the minute after the whistle was blown to ‘go over the top’, at 7...