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Devon Community Foundation hosted its annual Volunteer of the Year Awards sponsored by Quilter Cheviot, honouring the hard work and achievements of the many volunteers making a real difference in our Devon communities. Irfaan Jhetam from Hikmat Devon was awarded the Bringing People Together Volunteer of the Year Award sponsored by Cathedral Appointments.

Hikmat Devon, which has its own allotment in Exeter, seeks to address the issues of health inequalities, as well as to tackle the issue of social isolation faced by many people from Black and Minority Ethnic communities. Group...

A Plymouth University spin out venture founded on breakthrough research into the efficiency of photovoltaic solar panels has received significant investment following a first round of fundraising.

PulsiV Solar has been backed with £500,000 of investment to continue its development of technology that significantly improves the amount of energy generated by solar panel inverters, which is then harvested for supply to the grid.

Based on the Plymouth Science Park, the company will now accelerate product development, enabling it to embark upon further prototyping and testing in...

Stagecoach have unexpectedly brought forward the start date for work on the new bus depot at Matford, meaning a temporary closure of the weekly Sunday market and car boot sale at the Exeter Livestock Centre.

This week's market (Sunday 2 November) will be the last until the new year, with the market re-opening on Sunday 3 January.

It had been expected that the works on the depot would start in February and the market would have been able to operate alongside it. However the Livestock Centre is currently undergoing major works to replace its roof and install solar panels, two...

Essential work is planned on traffic signals in Exeter next week.

Maintenance replacement work is planned on the traffic signals at the Gordon’s Lamp Junction in Heavitree from Monday 2nd November 2015.

Gordon’s Lamp Junction is the junction of Magdalen Road and Fore Street.

This Devon County Council scheme is expected to be completed on Friday 20th November 2015.

This work will be coordinated with the works at Butts Road to minimise the signals costs, by treating the replacements as one scheme.

The traffic signals, poles and electrics – which are at...