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Locals and visitors to Ottery St Mary should spot a little extra colour in the town after Otter Garden Centre planted up some containers for St Saviours bridge.

Group Bedding Plants Manager Richard Lovering and his team brought eight troughs to the bridge, filled with a cheerful mix of polyanthus plants in purple and yellow. They added some red tulips too, so there will be an...

Bespoke Hotels, the UK’s largest independent hotel group, has been appointed to manage the Royal Glen hotel in Sidmouth.

With a history dating back over 300 years, it was circa 1700 that the Royal Glen was built by a Mr King of Bath as a then modest farmhouse, with a dairy, outhouses, a hayloft and a well that still exists at the centre of the house. Later extended and converted into...

New roadside posters encouraging road users to slow down for horses and their riders are being displayed in parts of Devon.

Devon County Council is supporting The British Horse Society’s (BHS) “Dead Slow” road safety campaign, teaming up with the BHS , Horses & Road Safety Awareness (HRSA) and Vision Zero South West to promote the campaign in the county.

The aim is to...

A new off-road multi-use trail, described as the ‘missing link’ between Seaton and Colyford, is on the way.

The £1.2 million scheme, approved by Devon County Council’s cabinet on Wednesday, will improve part of the existing National Cycle Network Route 2 in East Devon, which currently diverts onto a section of road that is unsuitable for families and less confident cyclists....