Emergency services are currently at the scene of a serious collision in Ipplepen, Devon, which has left five people injured.

Police, fire and ambulance crews and the air ambulance were called to the collision between two cars on the A381 Totnes Road at 1pm today (10 April).

The occupants of one car, a woman and two young children, have sustained serious injuries and have been taken to hospital.

One child has been taken by air ambulance to Derriford Hospital and the other child has been taken by ambulance to Torbay District Hospital.

Two people were extracted...

Young visitors to the X-ray department at the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital are being asked to help decide on a design theme for a new children’s X-ray room.

Having an x-ray can be quite a scary experience for young patients so the Medical Imaging staff are keen to create a clinical area that is more welcoming and friendly.

Children visiting the X-ray department can now vote for a theme – underwater, jungle or space – by placing a token in the corresponding voting box in the waiting room.

The team are hoping to raise funds to refurbish an existing X-ray room with...

Exeter Chiefs head coach Rob Baxter says it’s unlikely Scottish international Moray Low will play for the club again this season.

The 30-year-old tight-head was forced off during last weekend’s European Challenge Cup victory over Newcastle Falcons at Sandy Park with a a hamstring injury.

Scans this week have since revealed that Low - who was signed from Glasgow Warriors last summer - has caused significant damage and will now sit out the remaining weeks of the campaign.

It’s an untimely blow for Baxter, whose side this weekend play host to league leaders Northampton...

Debbie Cole joins independent accountancy firm ahead of important changes affecting employers

Leading independent accountancy firm Thomas Westcott has strengthened its payroll team in readiness for legislation changes affecting every employer.

Experienced payroll expert Debbie Cole has joined the firm ahead of the Government's changes to pensions, holiday entitlement and parental leave.

Debbie, who has more than a decade's experience helping clients' payroll issues, described joining Thomas Westcott as "an exciting new challenge".

She continued: "New...

As the academic year finally nears an end in the UK and here in Exeter all the students have started to make their way home for the Easter holidays. The city centre vastly changes when this happens as there are no more young and excitable people making their way to and from the campus at all hours of the day, the streets are a little quieter as no loud music blares from the houses accompanied by the sounds of fun and laughter. No it’s all gone a little dark as most of the 30,000 or so students that dominate the inner city have trundled home or to some exotic place as there are no more...

Easter was the busiest period of the year so far for Exeter Airport with over sixteen and a half thousand inbound and outbound passengers using the airport over the holiday period; a figure which was helped by the re-introduction of the Flybe ‘sun routes’ to Alicante, Malaga and Faro.

A high level of bookings on the other Flybe services, together with those of Skybus and Thomson flights which operated to as far away as Sharm El Sheikh, meant that the airport was over fifteen percent busier than Easter last year.

Exeter Airport managing director Matt Roach said: “The Easter...

Exeter chartered accountancy firm Simpkins Edwards is thrilled to announce that the top auction lot at its 12th annual Really Big Quiz will be a very special evening and night’s accommodation aboard HMS Defender – a Daring-class air-defence destroyer whose White Ensign was raised for the first time as a Royal Naval vessel in 2012. Under the command of Commander Stephen Higham, HMS Defender is the affiliated ship of the City of Exeter.

The unique experience for two people includes a Navy escort from home to where the ship is docked (at either Plymouth or Portsmouth), dinner with the...

An initial £750,000 of funding from Virgin StartUp will be available for up to 100 businesses that successfully run a campaign on the UK’s No 1 rewards-based crowdfunding platform. As part of the pioneering partnership, those who raise funding through Crowdfunder, could be automatically eligible for a Virgin Start-Up loan of up to £25,000. Every successful applicant, will also be matched with their very own mentor who will be committed to at least 15 hours of one-on-one face-to-face support over a year. "Working with Virgin Start Up to champion funding for start-ups will create many...

Award-winning Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre will visit Exeter Northcott Theatre in April with its brand new version of the classic tragedy, Romeo & Juliet.

A violent street brawl between their rival families is the prelude to Romeo’s first encounter with Juliet. Despite this, and the fact Juliet has been promised to another, they fall in love. But any plans for their future happiness are cruelly destroyed by renewed violence between their families and tragedy begins to unfold.

A small troupe of travelling players takes to the road with Shakespeare’s tale of star-crossed...

One of the UK’s leading comedians is back on the road this autumn with a brand new show! You know - that bloke. The Irish guy. No, not the bald one - the other one. You know him. The one Carol from work really likes. Wait, that might be Jason Byrne. Anyway….funny chap….has a new show!

The star of Mock The Week, Have I Got News For You, Live At The Apollo, Comic Relief Bake Off and Dara and Ed’s Great Big Adventure will be bringing his new show Outside Looking In to the Exeter’s Corn Exchange on Monday 16th November.

As an observational stand up, Ed Byrne is unrivalled....