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The current health crisis due to the coronavirus increased global pressures. According to the World Health Organization (WHO ), Italy was one of the first European countries where it had the greatest impact.

Leaving in its wake tens of thousands of dead and sick, disconcerting an entire nation and practically forcing people to change their lifestyles, opening the way to a new virtual...

The new footbridge replacing the old Alma Bridge in Sidmouth has been officially opened today (Friday 9 October).

Devon County Council’s new 19-metre span bridge and viewing areas have been developed over the past year – 40 metres inland from the site of the original structure.

The historic Alma Bridge, which dated from the early 1900s, was damaged during severe floods in...

The government’s proposed new housing formula or ‘algorithm’ will fail to deliver the affordable new homes that rural communities in Devon so desperately need, according to a new analysis from the countryside charity CPRE. Instead, the Government’s sweeping changes to local planning could lead to the worst of all possible worlds – the loss of more precious countryside without delivering the...

Mish Burchell, a resident at Klein House in Plymouth, is being supported to live a full and active life, despite major health problems.

Mish, 56, who lives with a number of both physical and mental complications, including bipolar disorder, is encouraged to live independently, go out every day, and enjoy walks on Dartmoor, in order to help manage her conditions.

She has lived...