May local election materials are already being stuffed through letterboxes as Devon’s political parties race to get ahead of the start of the official election campaign period, which begins on Tuesday. After this date campaign spending must be recorded and declared and must stay within prescribed limits. Local election materials often contain surprising claims about...
A three day festival of instrumental music played by upcoming professional musicians hosted in Topsham venues returns for its third year from Friday 25 to Sunday 27 April. The event aims to showcase and support young musicians from across the UK by bringing them and their work to audiences in Devon. The festival is led...
The Met Office is set to sell its Exeter Science Park leasehold property including its supercomputer and an adjacent office building. A procurement tender for a commercial agent with data centre expertise to manage the disposal of the property within the terms of the Met Office leasehold at the ten year-old development site closed last...
An annual rough sleeper count conducted by Exeter City Council for the government “consistently underestimates” the true levels of rough sleeping in the city, according to homelessness charity St Petrock’s, which is calling on the council to change its approach. The snapshot count, which is supposed to capture the number of rough sleepers on a...
HEADLINES Devon County Council reveals perilous financial state with SEND spending having “significant impact” on cash balances 5.9% budget increase for 2025-26 conceals £22 million cuts and £66 million cost increases with “inevitable” impact on “vital” services. Read more. Exeter Energy insists Riverside Valley Park only viable heat plant site but fails to explain Marsh...
Devon County Council has revealed the perilous state of its finances in its final annual budget before the local elections in May, with its Special Educational Needs & Disabilities (SEND) children’s services spending “now having a significant impact on cash balances”. Its service delivery budget will increase by 5.9% from £743 million 2024-25 to £784...
Exeter City Council’s Royal Albert Memorial Museum & Art Gallery (RAMM) has acquired photographic artworks by four different artists featured in the groundbreaking exhibition Dartmoor: A Radical Landscape. Five images have been acquired from Robert Darch’s Ten Tors series, which comprises photographs depicting South Dartmoor College students training for the Ten Tors Walk. The photographs...
Exeter City Council housing tenants will be able to take part in a week of activities next week as part of Tenant Focus Week. The information week will run from Monday, 10 March, to Friday, 14 March, with the aim of connecting and communicating with council tenants. Throughout the week, the Council’s housing team will...
Left to right: suspended chief constable Will Kerr, suspended acting chief constable Jim Colwell, interim chief constable James Vaughan. Photos: Devon and Cornwall Police. The Devon and Cornwall Police and Crime Commissioner’s office has confirmed that the cost of paying the three chief constables currently employed by Devon & Cornwall Police is £63,913 per month,...
The Custom House Visitor Centre on Exeter’s quayside is likely to stay closed for a little longer whilst essential maintenance, building and restoration takes place. The historic building will now stay closed until Saturday 15 March at the earliest, the City Council has announced. The ongoing work sees the relocation of the reception and the...
Lightbear Lane is hosting a reading of Shakespeare’s bloody revenge tale Titus Andronicus by professional actors with live music on Thursday 3 April at St Nicholas Priory. Thought to be William Shakespeare’s first tragedy, Titus Adronicus begins as Roman general Titus returns from war with captives including Tamora, queen of the Goths. When Titus kills...
Labour councillor Danny Barnes has left the residents of the Heavitree & Whipton Barton division without representation in County Hall decision-making for more than a year after missing twelve of fourteen public meetings at which he was expected. Neither of the two meetings of Devon County Council’s public rights of way committee that he did...
Exeter Energy is insisting that publicly-owned greenfield land in Riverside Valley Park is the only viable site for a heat network plant it is proposing to build while failing to explain why it has rejected brownfield alternatives in nearby Marsh Barton industrial estate. The Leeds-based company, which is controlled by 1Energy Group and Asper Investment...
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Emergency measures to bring rough sleepers inside have been extended as overnight temperatures remain below freezing in Exeter. Exeter City Council said on Monday 3 March that it would be extending its Severe Weather Emergency Protocol (SWEP) until Wednesday 5 March due to the cold conditions remaining. Temperatures are expected to go from Wednesday onwards,...