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Significant works to repair the damage in Topsham caused by the winter storms have been completed a day early..

The repairs, to the flood defence wall at Bowling Green Marsh, Topsham were funded by Exeter City Council.

Contractors working for the City Council began work on 28 April and finished a day earlier than the expected Friday 30 May today.

A large section of the coastal defence alongside the River Clyst frontage was severely damaged during the high tides and storm damage in January and February.

This resulted in a breach which allowed the high tides...

Sam Alford and Sam White, both from Exmouth, are starting a bike recycling project at Bicton EaRTH in East Devon. It is one of few such projects based in the heart of a rural community where there is a need for low-cost, independent transport – especially for young people.

After working for various charities and youth projects they are now establishing EaRTH Cycles and want the public to donate their old bikes, rather than throwing them away.

“We’ve secured support for the project from Devon County Council’s Local Sustainable Transport Fund, Making it Local and Awards For...

De-silting work is about to start on Dawlish Brook to help reduce future flooding, protect the town centre, residents and businesses and its world-famous waterfowl.

Work is scheduled to start on today (12 November) and is set to last two weeks.

Signs have been put up at the waterfowl warden’s building and the Tourist Information Centre to tell people what is happening.

Dawlish Brook, also known as Dawlish Water, begins its journey at Haldon and runs through Ashcombe valley, before reaching the sea at Dawlish Beach. On its journey it drops over weirs and under...

Devon County Council has announced that tonight's planned overnight closure of the A30 westbound from Daisymount Junction to the junction of the A30/C832 near M5 Junction 29, will now not take place due to expected severe weather.

This week's closures on that stretch, from 8pm to 6am each night, are to enable overhead gantry signs to be replaced over the westbound A30.

Devon County Council says that work will recommence as soon as the weather permits.

Devon County Council is pledging up to £3 million to repair and modernise the Grand Western Canal.

Council leader John Hart said the money would be included in the authority’s capital budget which will be examined next week.

The decision follows the catastrophic breach of the canal wall at Halberton in November following torrential downpours.

Mr Hart said today: “This is an historic feature with many listed structures along its length.

“It is a major tourist attraction and vital to Mid Devon’s economy and to Devon as a whole.

“I am awaiting a...

Update: Network Rail will be closing the Exe Estuary Trail from today, Weds (30th Jan) to Fri inclusive between Exton and Lympstone.

Work starts today, Monday 14th January, to repair a large hole in the Exe Estuary Trail at Nutwell Court (between Lympstone Station and the Commando Training Camp), which appeared in the cycle way as a result of severe wet weather shortly before Christmas.

Devon County Council made the immediate area safe and had erected a temporary scaffold bridge over the hole, so that the trail could be kept open over the Christmas and New Year period....