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Winkleigh's much-loved fair returns

Winkleigh's much-loved annual Fair is now underway, with a packed programme of community events and celebrations continuing throughout the week following a successful opening ceremony held on Sunday in the Town Square.

The Winkleigh Fair is one of Devon's oldest surviving community...

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Appeal to find woman missing since June 2013

Police in Cornwall are appealing for information from the public regarding an Irish national who has been missing since June 2013.

Nollaig O'Connor, originally from Enniskillen, went missing from Scotland ten-months ago. She was last seen in Cornwall last summer.

Enquiries were carried out initially by police in Scotland but have recently been passed to Devon and Cornwall to...

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Local producers invited to take a stand in outdoor market

TALENTED artists, food producers and crafters are being invited to air their wares at a new outdoor market launched in Plymouth this summer.

The Local Produce Market will be held in the streets surrounding Plymouth City Market on the second Saturday of every month from May (starting May 10) to September.

Traders will be able to show of their creations from homemade cupcakes and...

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National Stalking Awareness Day

As part of National Stalking Awareness Day (Thursday 24 April 2014) Devon and Cornwall Police are reminding people not to suffer in silence and report any incidents of stalking to the police.

As many as one in five women and one in 10 men report being stalked at some point in their lives (British Crime Survey 2009/10).

Stalking is unwanted and obsessive attention by one...

Gin Distillery receives a place in Hall of Fame

The Black Friars Gin Distillery, Plymouth has won the Silver Award in the Food & Drink category of VisitEngland’s Hall of Fame campaign. The distillery was selected by the Hall of Fame expert panel from almost 1,000 entrants and will feature in the hotly-anticipated Hall of Fame exhibition opening today on London’s Southbank.

Running for one week until 30 April, the free open-air...

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Daily Flybe flights from Exeter to London

Direct flights between London and Exeter are set to begin this October as part of a major expansion deal by locally-based airline Flybe.

Three city-to-city flights will run from Exeter to London City Airport as part of a five year agreement with the capital airport.

The expansion to the airlines’ Exeter flights will also see daily flights service Edinburgh and Dublin, two...

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Zoo - we can live without killer palm oil

Paignton Zoo Environmental Park is taking its campaign against palm oil to the Exeter Festival of South West Food & Drink.

The Zoo is sponsoring the Exeter Chamber of Commerce networking lunch on Friday 25th April, which is part of the Festival. The lunch will include a talk from Paignton Zoo and the Proper Cornish Food Company on how the two organisations worked together to...

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Charity celebrates coming of age at Business Expo 2014

The Devon Business Expo organised by TheBestOf Exeter and launching on Thursday 5th June at Matford Centre, announces its ‘charity of the year’ Dream-A-Way, celebrating its 21st anniversary, as the designated show charity. A charity raffle will be held to raise much needed monies for this local worthy cause at the after-show drinks reception sponsored by Business Network (SW).

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How Australia got the hump with one million feral camels

A new study by a University of Exeter researcher has shed light on how an estimated one million-strong population of wild camels thriving in Australia’s remote outback have become reviled as pests and culled on a large scale.

Sarah Crowley, of the Environment and Sustainability Institute at the University of Exeter’s Penryn Campus, explored the history of the camel in Australia, from...

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