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Work on the business case for the development of the North Devon Link Road will accelerate in the coming months, following confirmation of initial funding from the Department for Transport.

Devon County Council has been informed that it will receive £609,000 from the DfT for work being carried out this financial year and into 2016/17, with a further £891,000 being made available to develop the project beyond 2017.

The investment confirms the funding investment the Government announced in its Autumn Statement last year.

The County Council has already started work on...

Designs for a new play area at Knightshayes are to inject new life into four fallen trees which were the victim of some of the worst storm damage the National Trust estate has ever seen.

The designs, which include a tree house and tunnels bored into the trunks, will form a new natural play area looking to reintroduce risky play into a safe world.

For 150 years, the cluster of four oak trees towered over the gentle rolling Devon landscape at Knightshayes – until the high winds of in the winter of 2014 resulted in all four blowing down.

Three came down in one night,...

A leading behavioural ecologist from the University of Exeter has become the 1,000th researcher to receive a national fellowship for her pioneering research contributions in the field of social evolution and animal behaviour.

Dr Lauren Brent has received a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship to support her research on social dynamics and the evolution of cooperation in animal societies.

Her proposed research will examine the exchange of cooperative behaviours between free-living rhesus macaque monkeys with the aim of uncovering the systems that allow the persistence of...

Managing Partner of premier law firm Foot Anstey has been named by the industry magazine The Lawyer in its annual 'Hot 100', a Who's Who list of people who have made a difference to the legal industry over the past twelve months.

Since John became the firm's Managing Partner in 2008, he has overseen a period of growth and change at the firm. Headcount and turnover have all grown at the firm that has offices across the South West, including Exeter, Plymouth and Bristol. The Lawyer commented that under John's leadership, "Foot Anstey is embracing all the innovations of the modern...