As always a light sprinkling of the white stuff has led to hysteria across the country!

Met with either despair or elation when the snow comes to Britain you can guarantee no one will speak of anything else. People have taken to social media in their thousands to document the first snow of winter for the majority of the country, and being December has started to get people into the festive spirit!

(NewsPoint)

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Devon County Council has been praised by local residents in a national survey on highways and transport.

Positive feedback from local residents has seen Devon County Council maintain its rank as the second best performing County Council of the 22 that participated in the 2012 National Highways and Transport Public Satisfaction Survey (NHT Survey). Devon has also maintained its overall year-on-year levels of satisfaction in spite of challenging financial circumstances.

The NHT Survey is the most comprehensive public satisfaction survey for highways and transport and Devon...

Exeter has taken on its festive cloak for Christmas, shop windows aglow with enticing displays, the Christmas market on Cathedral Green, amazing street lights, late-night shopping and a host of events to increase the growing excitement of the season. But without the birth of that so special manger-bedded baby, whose coming gifted us Christmas, we lose the reason for the season and so we celebrate the real meaning of Christmas as an opportunity for joy. One of those opportunities is the annual Exeter and District Mencap Society’s Carol service to be held at South Street Baptist Church South...

Exeter’s busiest arts venue has just announced hundreds of new music, art, performance and film events, which will take place between January and March next year.

Highlights this season include several annual festivals including: Laugh Out Loud, a comedy festival taking place at venues throughout the city showcasing hilarious stand up from familiar faces; Animated Exeter in which you can experience animation in all its forms via workshops, talks and screenings; and Vibraphonic , now in its ninth year, celebrating urban music of black origin.

Exeter Phoenix has also launched...

Exeter Chiefs head coach Rob Baxter is hopeful of completing the signing of Fijian international Watisoni Votu within the next week.

The Aviva Premiership club have been pursuing the 27-year-old back for much of the current season, but a drawn out visa application has meant his arrival at Sandy Park has been delayed.

That application, however, appears to be nearing completion after Lautoka-born Votu travelled with club officials to the UK Border Agency in Cardiff on Monday,...

University of Exeter historian Professor Andrew Thompson has been selected as one of the new Leadership Fellows for the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC). Professor Thompson will lead the strategic theme ‘Care for the Future: Thinking Forward Through the Past’.

Over the next three years, Professor Thompson will provide intellectual and strategic leadership for the theme which is a focus for up-and-coming areas of interest in the arts and humanities. He will work closely with award holders, senior AHRC staff, and a range of partner organizations to promote engagement with...

Almost 20 per cent of Brits will injure themselves cooking Christmas dinner, a survey* by personal injury specialist First4lawyers has revealed.

The survey, which looked at the top Christmas related mishaps that take place in the home, discovered that preparing and serving the biggest family meal of the year is the main cause of festive foul-ups.

The top five causes of injuries at Christmas are:

1. Cooking Christmas dinner (20%)

2. Cuts from broken tree ornaments (11%)

3. Falls from ladders of roofs installing lights and decorations (11%)...

Two large Christmas trees donated to a local wildlife charity will be given to a troop of monkeys in the New Year. Paignton Zoo has been presented with the pair of 15-foot Norway spruce by Marldon Christmas Tree Farm.

Robyn Lynes, from the farm, said: “We sell fresh, locally-grown trees to the public, but are also aware of our responsibilities to the wider community. We are donating the trees to the Zoo because it is really good for a local business to help a local charity.”

Paignton Zoo Fundraising Manager Jenny Paton said; “It is a wonderful gesture. And after the trees...

How do you tell if a bird is male or female when they all look the same? The answer is – pluck a feather and send it to Cornwall.

Keepers at Living Coasts, Torquay’s coastal zoo and aquarium, are using high-tech DNA tests to sex some of the birds that hatched this summer.

Inca terns are the characterful black and white birds with red beaks and white moustaches that fly free under the vast 50,000 cubic metre net canopy at Living Coasts. Males and females look and behave the same, so it is impossible to tell just by looking at them.

Clare Rugg, Operations Manager at...