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Rep season booming in Devon

The 2024 Summer Play Festival at the Manor Pavilion Theatre Sidmouth has eclipsed previous years in its early ticket sales.

The Manor Pavilion Theatre hosts the longest standing Rep Theatre in the country, with over 60 years of history at the venue. Paul Taylor Mills has been the...

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Ground-breaking South West 3D high-definition viewer set to change the trading card landscape forever

Game-changing marketplace specialising in raw, ungraded cards launching in July

Features Pokémon, Magic: The Gathering, Yu-Gi-Oh!, Sports cards, and many others

Cornish start-up Ungraded is primed and ready to shake up the world of trading cards with the summer launch of a revolutionary new online marketplace, dedicated to ungraded or “raw” cards.

Using an...

Lympstone Manor's Celebration of Speed Returns

On Wednesday 10th July 2024, luxury manor house hotel, Lympstone Manor , in Devon, welcomes back its revered annual Celebration of Speed. The one-day summer festival commemorates Michelin-starred Chef-Owner Michael Caines’ love of motorsport with a line-up including panel discussions with TV presenter and racing driver, Jodie Kidd and TV presenter and motor specialist, Ant Anstead. As the...

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Kilos of cocaine seized in proactive vehicle stop

Officers have seized around four and a half kilograms of cocaine near Exeter after they stopped a vehicle believed to be linked to the supply of drugs.

Serious and Organised Crime Operations stopped the car on the A30 shortly before 10pm on Monday 13 May and found the drugs on searching the vehicle.

The cocaine is believed to have an estimated street value of over £300,000...

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Many cars have been seized and motorists arrested during the first week of a crackdown on drivers disregarding road traffic laws across Devon and Cornwall.

Throughout May, Devon & Cornwall Police are carrying out ‘Operation Vortex’ - a proactive operation which aims to reduce the number of collisions and casualties by targeting inconsiderate and dangerous driving.

During week one of the operation, which started on Wednesday 8 May 2024, officers stopped 103 cars, seized 10 cars and made 10 arrests. So far, offences discovered by...

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Bloor Homes has sponsored the Ivybridge 10K Race for a second year.

487 runners took part in the Race on Saturday (11th May) under very warm conditions with the fastest runner, Oliver Thorogood, completing the course in just 33:05.

James Artingstall, Development Planner for Bloor Homes’ Exeter region donned the race t-shirt featuring the Bloor Homes logo and took part.

Sara Parker, Sales Director for Bloor Homes’ Exeter region said: “The...

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Young man from Colyford chosen to share his story with thousands of guests at Duke of Edinburgh’s Gold Award celebrations in Buckingham Palace Garden

A young man from Colyford in East Devon joined His Royal Highness The Duke of Edinburgh and journalist and broadcaster Clive Myrie to give a speech to thousands of young people and their loved ones at Buckingham Palace yesterday – as they celebrated achieving their Gold Duke of Edinburgh’s Awards.

Dipesh Purandare, 19 – who was also celebrating achieving his own Gold Award – took to...

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Yealmpton's Devon Air Ambulance Community Landing Site is now operational

Devon Air Ambulance's Community Landing Sites Team are starting Spring 2024 with a flourish and growing their network of night landing sites with a site now operational in Yealmpton.

This new landing site is the 202nd across Devon and the surveyed landing site will enable Devon Air Ambulance (DAA) to land in the village during the ‘hours of darkness’ where their clinical teams can...

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Choir honoured to receive Lord Mayor’s Commendation Award

Exeter Philharmonic Choir is among only a handful of organisations in the city to have received a special Commendation Award from the Lord Mayor.

Two representatives of the Choir, Vicki Henderson and Geoff Poad, attended a reception at the Guildhall on Friday 10th May to receive the Award from the Lord Mayor of Exeter, Councillor Kevin Mitchell, for the Choir’s services to vocal music...

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he Exeter Quay group celebrating 20 years of Westbank's Health Walks

Celebrating 20 years of Devon charity’s Health Walks

Devon health and wellbeing charity Westbank Community Health and Care has clocked up an impressive 20 years since it began its programme of organised, daytime health walks for people of all ages and varying abilities.

Throughout May - National Walking Month - Westbank is celebrating the milestone anniversary of this successful programme of Health Walks that keeps people on the move...

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Sue Barker opens Northway Court

On 3rd May, the Holiday Property Bond opened its 35th site, Northway Court, Horns Cross, near Bideford in North Devon.

Northway Court was officially opened by Devon born tennis champion and broadcaster, Sue Barker CBE, who is also an HPB Bondholder – one of 41,000 UK investors.

The Holiday Property Bond is now 41 years old, having been launched in 1983. It now owns a total...

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HPB Northway Court enjoys spectacular views across Peppercombe Beach

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