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Devon-based pasty and pie makers, Chunk, are celebrating after maintaining their crown as the UK’s tastiest pasty and pie suppliers by scooping a further four national foodie accolades, with four golds from Great Taste, bringing their awards total to 60.

The company, which employs 30 people and is based in Ottery St Mary, is well and truly rivaling its Cornish counterparts. The supremo pasty and pie maker wowed the judges at this year’s Great Taste 2015 event with its Steak, Chicken and Chorizo and Lamb Moroc pasties and its Chicken and Ham Squealer Pork Pie.

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An Exeter public relations consultancy will be helping to tell the story of the South West’s ever-changing coastline after winning a major new contract.

KOR Communications – who have just been nominated for two major industry awards – will be providing strategic advice and services to the South West Regional Coastal Monitoring Programme, a joint initiative of the Environment Agency, Defra and local authorities.

Approaching its tenth anniversary, the programme has been gathering information on the Westcountry’s shoreline since 2006, sharing data with scientists, councils and...

The local branch of Samaritans is aiming to increase the information it provides and the audience it reaches by taking the unusual step of setting up a Twitter account.

The Exeter Mid and East Devon branch - which uses the name @ExeSamaritans - is one of the first Samaritans branches in the country to open an account on Twitter, and will create tweets that will be sent to followers several times each week.

“Our aim is to let people know about interesting online articles and inform them about what’s happening with our local branch. It’s also a reminder that we are here on...

Crediton residents have so far provided a wealth of information about flooding vulnerabilities around the town as part of a community project being led by the University of Exeter, and now researchers are calling for more people to get involved.

Flooding effectively cuts off Crediton when the Rivers Yeo and Creedy burst their banks and the project needs residents to provide evidence about specific places that flood, offer their views about the causes and suggest ideas about what can be done to prevent future flooding.

The Crediton Flood Resilience Group, comprising...