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• Council courts serve up new opportunities for pickleball players

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• Long-awaited new building for flood-hit Devon school takes major step forward

  A hard-fought campaign for a new building for a Devon primary school looks set to have taken a major step forward.

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• Firefighters’ plea to pack a picnic

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• Police appeal for help in finding Exeter man

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• Ann Widdecombe death being treated as targeted attack, say Counter Terrorism Police

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• Illegal use of electric bikes and scooters, Exeter

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• Exeter cycles-only road to re-open for traffic

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