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Devon Air ambulance crews will be on call throughout the Christmas period ready to respond throughout Devon and beyond.

In December alone, the charity has so far been tasked to 80 missions, delivering vital pre-hospital and time-critical emergency care to 43 patients who experienced a sudden critical injury or illness within our local communities.

The charity's two emergency...

Catherine Gillen, director of The Brownston Gallery , is one of the Trustees of The Lenkiewicz Foundation and some four years ago they started the process of authorizing a biography of Robert Lenkiewicz’s life. The first volume has just been published and is already getting good reviews. Written by author and art historian Dr Mark Price it is a definitive, scholarly piece of work that...

A road sweeper which burst into flames in Exmouth, during the early hours of Sunday morning, has been completely destroyed.

The driver thankfully escaped the vehicle unharmed, although a little shaken, after the incident which took place at around 6.15am yesterday, December 19.

The East Devon District Council (EDDC) worker had been going about his regular Strand sweeping...

Thousands of fish have found new homes just in time for Christmas thanks to the Environment Agency’s annual restocking programme. For the third year running, the Environment Agency has restocked the River Culm in Devon, following a pollution incident in 2019. More than 6,000 fish have been released into the river this week, including dace, roach and chub, to boost numbers and give the river a...