A woman has died following a fall from a bridge near Tiverton.
Police were called just before 4.40am on Wednesday 6 December with reports that a woman had fallen from the bridge on the A361 North Devon link Road between Sampford Peverell and Tiverton.
The road was closed as emergency services attended the incident, including support from Fire and the Police helicopter.
Police scenes of crime remain also attended the scene undertaking initial enquiries.
A 52-year-old local woman was taken to the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital with injuries described as...
Devon’s gritters will be out in force this evening and overnight with the possibility of snow showers and icy conditions forecast.
There is a chance of up to 5cm of snow on higher ground, and the County Council’s 37 frontline gritters will be treating all of Devon’s main salting routes. In some cases they will be carrying out repeated treatments, some of them up to three times on routes covering Dartmoor and Exmoor, which will be salted at around 6pm, midnight and 5am. Conditions will be monitored throughout the night and into tomorrow morning to see if further treatments are...
Your essential guide to What’s On in and around Exeter this weekend (8-10 December).
THEATRE
Dick Whittington Exeter Northcott Theatre With his faithful Puss by his side Dick leaves his Exeter home for the bright lights of London in search of fame and fortune. Follow his adventures as he reaches the big city and travels the high seas. Will Dick find his fortune? Can he and Puss defeat the evil villain King Rat and return home triumphant? Expect plenty of audience participation, live music, magic, mayhem and lots of laughter – the perfect recipe for a family Christmas panto...
A charity which gives urban children a better understanding of the countryside is to benefit from Exeter Philharmonic Choir’s two carol concerts next week.
The retiring collection from ‘Carols in the Cathedral’ will go to Farms for City Children, which was founded in Devon over forty years ago by children’s author Michael Morpurgo and his wife Clare.
The charity’s first farm was in the heart of the beautiful Devon countryside at Nethercott House, just outside the village of Iddesleigh. Farms for City Children now has three working farms which welcome more than 3,200...
A very special Christmas party will take place at the Guildhall, Exeter, on Monday December 11 from 11am until 12noon. It will be hosted by the Older Persons’ team from Exeter City Council’s Housing Services Department for people across the City who attend the daytime sing and smile sessions organised by the Goldies Charity.
The session will be taken by Exeter session leader Mark Hansford. The fun sing-along sessions started in the City earlier this year after Sarah Hemming Housing Community Partnerships Officer at Exeter City Council contacted Bath based Goldies founder Grenville...
Nearly 600 firearms were handed in to Devon and Cornwall Police during the firearms and ammunition surrender which ran from 13 – 26 November this year.
The campaign, instigated by the National Ballistics Intelligence Service (NABIS), was supported by other forces around the country, including Dorset Police.
Items voluntarily surrendered at police enquiry offices across the force area totalled:
569 firearms of various types
More than 20,000 rounds of ammunition
Michelle Mounsey, Firearms and Explosives Licensing Manager for the Devon & Cornwall...
East Devon District Council’s Environmental Health team has recently served fixed penalty notices on three people responsible for fly tipping, as well as a member of the public seen throwing litter from a lorry.
In the first case, a resident from the Tiverton area, who fly tipped waste in Forest Gate car park, Ashclyst Forest, Killerton, claimed that a commercial waste collection company had taken her waste, but she was unable to provide any evidence to support this and has since paid the £200 fine.
In the second case, a resident of Ottery St Mary fly tipped a large...
Mihangelf Promotions is a relatively new music promotions enterprise in South Devon putting on live music.
Thus far, there have been five events at the Unit 23 Live venue in Totnes, formerly South Devon Arts Centre, a short hop away on the train or up the A38.
The enterprise is run by music lover Mike Fraser who lives local to Totnes.
Genres of music focused on are psychedelic rock, psychedeliic/ambient/world dance and progressive rock, though don't be surprised at the occasional reggae or folk event.
Successful gigs already put on include Gong in March and...
Businesses on Exeter’s historic Quay are reminding people that the area is still open for business despite ongoing building work being carried out. Work on the multi-million pound Flood Defence Scheme has been going on at the Quay for some time now but for the shops, restaurants, bars and attractions down by the waterside it’s still business as usual. Work isn’t due to be finished until next spring. When completed the defences will offer homes and businesses in the area protection against flooding from the River Exe. The work is being carried out by the Environment Agency and is being...
Leading local advice charity, Citizens Advice Exeter, has shared a national Citizens Advice One Service Working Award.
The Award recognises the role that the charity played, with nine other local Citizens Advice offices across the Country, to pilot the new ‘Casebook’ client management system. Other recipients included Devon-based offices in East Devon, South Hams, Teignbridge and Torridge, North, Mid and West Devon.
Warren Buckley, Deputy Chair of the national Citizens Advice charity said: “This Award recognises the work that was done in testing out new training materials...
