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Businesses and residents are concerned about how the 18-week closure of a busy road will affect their town's trade.The B3212, which goes from Exeter and Moretonhampstead, is fully closed for extensive repairs between Dunsford and Doccombe, until April. It means drivers are faced with a 23-mile diversion through Bovey Tracey to get to Moretonhampstead, where residents say they are worried that the closure is not well signposted and fear passing trade will be put off visiting.Devon County Council…

Police are seeking witnesses after an electric scotter rider was seriously injured in a crash.The woman, a local in her 20s, was found in Parsons Lane between Cranbrook and Rockbeare, in Devon.Devon & Cornwall Police said emergency services were called at 18.50 GMT on Sunday and the woman was taken to the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital for treatment before being transferred to Derriford Hospital, in Plymouth.Officers said the woman remained in serious condition and they have appealed…

New electric buses will no longer be able to serve two streets in Devon because the vehicles are too big to squeeze through.Changes in Torquay from 1 February are due to affect the 35A and 35C services, which will no longer serve Park Road and Hartop Road.Bus operator Stagecoach said the service changes were "necessary" so its new buses could operate safely and reliably. It plans to operate 55 zero-emission buses across Torbay, providing what it said would…

Exeter boss Rob Baxter says his side's Prem play-off hopes are far from over despite their 8-3 defeat at home by Bristol.The loss - in difficult weather conditions at Sandy Park - was Exeter's third league defeat of the season and meant they slipped to fifth place.They are a point off fourth-placed Leicester while Bristol have leapfrogged Exeter into third position."We have done very well to get in and around and be competitive where we are now -…

Exeter City striker Jayden Wareham is "one of the best number nines" in League One, according to manager Gary Caldwell.Wareham scored his fifth goal in eight games in Saturday's 3-1 win at Port Vale.The 22-year-old also hit the post with an outrageous long-range effort as Exeter moved up to 10th place in League One - six points outside the play-off places and seven above the relegation zone. Wareham, a summer signing from Reading, has scored 13 goals in…

Torquay United boss Paul Wotton says a frank half-time team talk may have been the reason for his side's 2-1 win at struggling Enfield Town.Sam Youngs had given the relegation-threatened hosts a 19th-minute lead in the National League South game that they took into the interval.But Dylan Morgan equalised soon after the restart and Kieran Wilson scored an 88th-minute penalty to secure all three points for the Gulls."I just said that 'you're nowhere near it'," the Torquay manager…

A yellow weather warning for rain covering the south west has been issued by the Met Office. The warning, affecting Cornwall and Devon, has been put in place from 15:00 GMT on Monday until 12:00 on Tuesday. The Met Office said outbreaks of rain would affect parts of south west England from Monday afternoon to Tuesday morning before clearing to heavy showers later on Tuesday. It said rainfall totals were expected to reach around 20mm (2cm) to 30mm…

BBCFlowers were placed along the edge of the beach at Budleigh SaltertonThe body of a man has been recovered after two swimmers went missing on Christmas Day, police have said.Devon and Cornwall Police said emergency services were called just before 15:00 GMT on Sunday to Exmouth Beach following a report of a possible body seen near the shore.Formal identification is yet to be carried out, but officers said the family of a 64-year-old man from Budleigh Salterton had…