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The first homes and businesses in Barnstaple can now benefit from reliable ultrafast broadband straight to their door, from internet service provider Jurassic Fibre.

The Exeter-based company’s full-fibre network went live in parts of the town this month, providing internet speeds of up to 950Mbps. The network will cover over 10,000 premises across Barnstaple, with the build expected...

Devon’s gritting teams are gearing up for the possibility of snow showers later tonight (Monday 8 February).

Extremely cold conditions are expected to continue all week and there is a risk of up to 5cm of snow over the next 24 hours, with flurries most likely in the east of the county.

Road surface temperatures are expected to fall to as low as -7C this evening, the lowest...

On a wet and windy Tuesday morning in Sidmouth, Tony Sutherland, sales director of Harrison-Lavers & Potbury’s, delivered two laptops and an iPad to Sidmouth Primary School.

After seeing the school’s appeal for donations in the Sidmouth Herald, the directors of the estate agency wanted to do what they could to help all students get online with home schooling.

Tony said...

Embarking on working life and a career during a global pandemic has been a huge challenge for thousands of young people in Devon, so to mark National Apprenticeship Week (8-14 February 2021), a local apprentice with the nation's leading housebuilder is urging others to follow on his footsteps.

Dan Newberry, 24 from Plymouth, had been working through an agency as a labourer when he...