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Businesses and community groups in East Devon can now apply for decarbonisation grants ranging from £2,000 to £30,000.

The University of Exeter has increased its standing in the top 20 UK universities in the Guardian University Guide 2026.

Coleridge Bridge at Ottery St Mary is expected to re-open to the public next Wednesday (17 September) after being lifted back into place.

Residents of a major East Devon town will get a say on a rejigged plan that aims to improve the experience for residents and bolster its appeal to tourists.

Exeter City Council has changed its mind over where to make its new home.

This summer, visitors living with disabilities and families with pushchairs enjoyed better access to East Devon’s pebble beach's thanks to more than £17,600 of funding from the Access for All Fund, created by DEFRA and administered locally by East Devon National Landscape.

Detectives have issued a further appeal to the public following a burglary at the museum in Exeter.

Police have called for any footage or information of vandals who damaged four bus stops in Exmouth, in a one-night spate of anti-social behaviour.

An imminent lengthy closure of a main road in and out of Newton Abbot has prompted Newton Abbot Town Council to speak up on behalf of businesses and residents.

Devon councillors are calling for clarity amid fears that the government’s plans to shut them down are descending into ’disarray’.

Newton Abbot Museum is preparing to celebrate half a decade since opening the doors of its new home at Newton’s Place, the former St Leonard’s Church in Wolborough Street.

The guardians of Dartmoor have given their blessing to a massive makeover for a golf club inside the national park.

Failing lifts and escalators which have left the top floor of a Torquay shopping centre off limits to some shoppers will soon be fixed.

Torbay parents whose children are being educated outside the school system are suffering crisis and stress as a result of a new ‘pathway’ designed to help them, it has been claimed.

Primary schools across Torbay will get a windfall of nearly £300,000 thanks to a ‘trailblazing’ change in the way Torbay Council allocates free school meals.

In a first for Devon & Cornwall Police a total of six shops in Torbay have been closed down on the same day for selling illegal vapes and counterfeit tobacco.

South Western Railway is expanding the use of body-worn video cameras for frontline colleagues, such as train guards and gateline assistants, to help tackle a rise in assaults and abuse

Police are warning residents to be cautious over a seasonal scam – known as the winter fuel scam – in which fraudsters attempt to trick unsuspecting individuals into handing over their personal and financial information.

Police commissioner Alison Hernandez says it’s unlikely there will be money to recruit more regular police officers but 49 new police community support officers (PCSOs) across Devon and Cornwall will make an impact.

Devon and Cornwall has seen an 11.7 per cent rise in crime over the past year and dropped from sixth to ninth in the table of the safest places to live

Returning students and those heading to universities in the South West for Freshers Weeks are being urged to use condoms to protect themselves and others from sexually transmitted infections (STIs), as the UKHSA’s latest quarterly data shows that gonorrhoea and syphilis remain very high in England.

South West Water is working in partnership with the University of Exeter through the Centre for Resilience in Environment, Water and Waste (CREWW), to develop an upgraded model to predict the location of lead pipes across its network.

Details of the financial settlement awarded to former suspended Devon and Cornwall Chief Constable Will Kerr following his decision to retire are now able to be publicly shared by the Police and Crime Commissioner

Devon & Cornwall Police has launched a survey to better understand victim experiences of reporting rape and serious sexual offences to the police.