Exmouth Police are investigating an assault on a 12-year-old schoolboy in the town.
The incident happened as the boy was walking home from school on the cycle path between Phear Park and Bradham Lane around 3.30pm on Wednesday (21 January).
The boy, dressed in school uniform, was near the brick bridge when he was pushed over by an unknown man and assaulted. His phone was smashed and he suffered grazes to his hands.
Police are investigating the possibility that the assault was an attempt to steal from him.
Officers are seeking the offender who ran off towards...
Temperatures are set to turn cold again across the region this week, with snow showers forecast for some areas on Friday.
The Met Office five-day forecast is as follows:
Today: Cloud and rain will move southeast across the region, then clear through the first half of the morning. It will then be dry with sunny spells. It will feel cool in a northwesterly breeze. Maximum Temperature 10C.
Tonight: Becoming cloudier from the north and west during the evening, but some places continuing to see some clear spells leading to a chilly night with a local frost possible....
Culm Valley Sports Centre looks fresh and inviting, and the impressive new equipment in the fitness studio now rivals every other facility in the Mid Devon area. The official opening ceremony is on 7 February.
For everyone with a New Year’s resolution to be more active and healthy, make a fresh start by visiting the new facilities at Culm Valley Sports Centre this January. The Centre has undergone a refurbishment of the customer areas and fitness studio, in time for its 30th birthday celebrations from 7 to 13 February.
The fitness studio now comprises 15 resistance exercise...
A new community photography exhibition was launched last weekend at a celebratory event held at the Glorious Art House on Fore Street, Exeter.
The launch marked the start of the ‘Our Lives, Our Community, Our Voice’ project’s first photography exhibition.
The project, which has now run three courses in Exeter, provides participants with access to photographic equipment in facilitated workshops. It is managed by the Olive Tree Association/Devon Grapevine in partnership with Exeter-based social enterprise Meridian RAW and is funded by The People Health Trust.
Strength and balance classes have been launched at Moretonhampstead Hospital and are already proving a hit with patients.
The weekly classes, which started in November, are designed to boost the health, wellbeing and confidence of people who suffer from falls or are afraid of falling.
The sessions run for 12 weeks and include a range of exercises aimed at improving balance and preventing falls, with advice from therapists on how best to manage them when they do happen.
Falls account for over half of hospital admissions for accidental injury, and about a third of...
City, national and international law firm Trowers & Hamlins have announced that Rachel Carter, a lawyer based in the firm's Exeter office, has been promoted to partner.
Rachel has over 20 years of experience in the property sector and works in the firm's Housing and Regeneration department. She acts for private developers, social landlords and local authorities, giving her a full understanding of the complexities and commercial arrangements needed to tackle development issues. In addition to development projects and joint ventures, Rachel has experience advising on purchases...
Stress hormones in the mother can affect foetal development, according to a study published today in The Journal of Physiology.
To test whether high stress levels in pregnant mice had an impact on their offspring, pregnant mice received the natural glucocorticoid corticosterone at different times during pregnancy, either from day 11 to 16 (20 females), from day 14-19 (31 females), or not at all (74 control females).
Researchers found that increased levels of glucocorticoid stress hormones in pregnant mice caused the mother to eat more but reduced the ability of the placenta...
Bishop Robert will be one of two bishops who will present Rev Libby Lane for consecration as the first woman bishop in the Church of England.
The historic service is taking place at York Minster on Monday.
Bishop Robert has worked and known Libby for many years. She is succeeding him as Bishop of Stockport, a post he left to move to become Bishop of Exeter last year.
He said: “I am proud and delighted to be one of the two bishops presenting LIbby for consecration as the first women bishop in the Church of England. She is a person of great warmth and character who...
New services to help children at risk of sexual exploitation are being planned in Devon with a cash boost of almost £120,000.
The County Council’s Cabinet member for children, Cllr James McInnes, said that Council Leader John Hart had agreed more cash to expand Devon’s prevention services.
The announcement came following a series of hard-hitting recommendations from an all-party task group set up to look into child sexual exploitation in Devon.
The task group found that there is no intelligence to suggest organised child sexual exploitation networks are operating in...
