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• Help for Devon communities to enjoy great outdoors

  Devon’s towns, cities and villages are being offered help from National Grid to create or improve green spaces that can be enjoyed by communities.

• County Council explores legal options in relation to water quality concerns affecting Devon residents

  Devon County Council’s Leader, Councillor Julian Brazil, has asked officers to explore whether any legal options are available to the authority in relation to ongoing concerns about sewage discharges and water quality in the county.

• Go-ahead for ‘massive’ Honiton care home

  A 70-bed care home is to be built on the site of a former Devon school despite locals warning that it will be ‘massive’, ‘unsustainable’ and a burden on under-pressure health services.

• ‘Last chance’ for derelict Devon farm building

  A project to transform a tumbledown farm building near Sidmouth into a modern home has been turned down.

• Royal Devon wins national award for pioneering digital care in patients own homes

  The Acute Hospital at Home (or virtual ward) team at the Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is celebrating winning an HSJ Digital Award for pioneering a system to provide patients with 24/7 heart monitoring in the comfort of their own home.

• All Aboard The Summer Book Quest!

  Libraries in Devon are inviting children to join The Summer Book Quest over the summer holidays. The Summer Book Quest: Mission to Wayfarer Island follows a group of friends as they set out to help an explorer on an exciting, transport-themed adventure. Children can participate with a mix of activities and reading, and receive a special medal upon completion.

• Can you crack it? GWR challenges customers to decipher code hidden on train for past four years

  The race is on to finally crack a secret code hidden on the side of a Great Western Railway train for the past four years.

• Ten Royal Devon donated anaesthetic machines transported from Devon to Ukraine to support critical care treatment

  A convoy led by the World Extreme Medicine Fund (WEMF) has successfully delivered ten anaesthetic machines from Devon, UK to Kropyvnytski Hospital in Ukraine, helping support intensive care treatment for patients suffering severe infection and trauma-related complications caused by war injuries.

• Road maintenance programme gets underway across Devon

  The warmer weather over the past few weeks means Devon’s annual surface dressing season is now underway.

• Citizens Advice provides new emergency funds in Devon

  Citizens Advice services across Devon will provide emergency funds and support to break the cycle of poverty for around 4,000 households most in need as part of a £1 million initiative.

• More than £25,000 of falsely claimed Council Tax Reduction recovered from single household

  An East Devon resident repaid in full more than £25,000 of falsely claimed Council Tax Reduction, alongside a £1,000 penalty, following a fraud investigation into an undeclared change in household circumstances.

• Police Condemn ‘Pathetic’ Vandalism After Exmouth Pride Banner Removed Again

  Police have launched an investigation after a banner promoting Exmouth Pride was torn down, marking the third consecutive year that event signage has been targeted

• Police aim to keep youngsters safe as they warn about the dangers of abandoned buildings

  Police are reminding youngsters and their parents about the dangers of entering derelict sites and abandoned buildings.

• New look Central Station is major boost to rail passengers in Exeter

  Council Leader Phil Bialyk has welcomed a £2.7m investment to transform Exeter Central – one of the busiest railway stations in the South West.

• Unique opportunity to help shape the future of Heavitree and Whipton

  Residents with a passion for their community are being invited to apply for the new Independent Chair role for the Pride in Place Neighbourhood Board in Heavitree and Whipton.

• Exmouth RNLI help teenagers cut off by rising tide

  Exmouth RNLI were tasked on Thursday 4 June at 9.11am by H.M. Coastguard, launching our inshore, D-class lifeboat, George Bearman II, shortly after. Our volunteer crew of three headed off in windy conditions, generating 2 metre swells, towards the reported location of the incident in the Exe estuary.