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Dryden Road has been closed to traffic since the Covid pandemic. Photo: Ian Frankum.

‘Stop delaying and start delivering’ – County road chiefs accused of taking too long to re-open Covid car ban Exeter street

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By on East Devon, Exeter, News

County road chiefs have been accused of creating a ‘deliberate delay’ to re-opening a Covid-closed street to cars in Exeter. Devon County Council has refuted claims that it is delaying a move to bring traffic back to a blocked Exeter street, writes local democracy reporter Guy Henderson. The Exeter highways and traffic orders committee (HATOC) has agreed to look again at Dryden Road, which has been closed to vehicles since the Covid lockdown in 2020, when it was designated a traffic-free route in and out of the city for cyclists and pedestrians. Supporters say it made a big difference, improving…

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Beautiful Days Festival 2026
Beautiful Days Festival fun fancy dress 2026 theme was back to the 70s. Photo: ©East Devon News.

PHOTOS: Beautiful Days Festival 2026 goes back to the 70s in East Devon

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By on East Devon, Editor's Choice, Exeter, Lifestyle, News, Ottery St Mary

Heading home and already got the festival blues? East Devon News captured some of Sunday’s fantastic Back to the 70s costumes, dreamed up by Beautiful Days Festival revellers. Beautiful Days always lives up to its name – if only you could bottle the atmosphere of this family festival. Only at Beautiful Days Festival will you find a man dressed as Concorde, the entire Scooby Doo crew complete with The Mystery Machine, or a family of Rubik’s cubes. This year thousands of festival-goers rose to the challenge to create show-stopping costumes. The Levellers’ annual family music festival, at Escot, near Ottery…

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Exeter
Pictured here is a rough sleeper in Exeter city centre. Photo: St Petrock's.

‘No-one should have to bed down in a doorway or outside a station’ – Government pledges £2million to tackle rough sleeping in Exeter

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By on East Devon, Exeter, News

Rough sleepers in Exeter will be helped off the streets and into accommodation when the city receives almost £2million through a government drive to tackle UK-wide homelessness. Exeter is to get almost £2million in government money to tackle rough sleeping, writes local democracy reporter Guy Henderson. The money is part of Prime Minister Andy Burnham’s national drive to get everyone off the streets for Christmas Under a package totalling £442million, areas with the greatest need will receive the largest share of support to get people out of the cold, and that means £1,974,556 for Exeter. The scheme aims to give…

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Exeter
Students from school across Exeter picked up their GCSE results, resulting in wide-spread celebrations. Photos: with permission.

‘We are incredibly proud of all they have accomplished’ – Exeter students celebrate GCSE results

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By on East Devon, Exeter, News

Students across Exeter collected their GCSE results on Thursday (August 20) sparking wide-spread celebrations. Isca Academy Isca Academy students and staff were ‘elated’ as Year 11 students achieved a set of results to be proud of, reflecting the hard work, determination and resilience shown by pupils throughout their studies. The school reported an increase in the number of students achieving grades 5 or above in both English and Maths compared to last year. Many students achieved a grade 4 or above in five or more subjects, providing a strong foundation for their next steps. And a number of students achieved…

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Find out how much your Exeter councillor was paid in allowances and expenses

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By on East Devon, Exeter, News

A full list of figures has been published revealing how much Exeter city councillors were paid in allowances and expenses for the last year. Exeter’s councillors have received a total of nearly £442,000 between them for their work in the past year, writes local democracy reporter Guy Henderson. Only £1,000 of the total is in expenses claimed by members of the council while the bulk of the payments are fixed allowances set by an independent outside body without any input from the city council. The aim of the allowances is to permit working people to serve on their local authorities…

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The Royal Albert Memorial Museum (RAMM) in Exeter. Image: Google Maps
The Royal Albert Memorial Museum (RAMM) in Exeter. Image: Google Maps

Exeter leaders face £260K boiler bail-out amid city museum closure risk

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By on East Devon, Exeter, News

The heat is on Exeter City Council to borrow more than a quarter of a million pounds to repair failing boilers at the city’s museum or the attraction could be forced to close. An award-winning Devon museum could be forced to close its doors unless expensive repairs are carried out, writes local democracy reporter Guy Henderson. An extraordinary meeting of Exeter City Council has been called next week (August 25) to discuss putting more than a quarter of a million pounds towards the repairs. A report to the meeting says one of two boilers at the city’s Royal Albert Memorial…

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Exeter MP Steve Race has launched a war on weeds in the city. Photos: L to R, Tony Stevens/stock image.

‘I want Devon County Council to have as much pride in our city as we do’ – Exeter MP launches new website to tackle growing weed problem

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By on East Devon, Exeter, News

Exeter MP Steve Race is rooting on public support to tackle a growing weed problem in the city, sparking a new report-it website calling for council action. A Devon MP’s war on weeds has sparked dozens of reports of vegetation blighting a city’s streets, writes local democracy reporter Guy Henderson. But it has also prompted a political opponent to tell the MP to put his money where his mouth is and get more weeding machines out on the streets and pavements. Exeter’s Labour MP Steve Race launched his own call to action in an effort to press Devon County Council…

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A developer proposing to build 67 new homes in Alphington, Exeter, says they could all be affordable. Images: L to R, Google Street View/Edenstone/Exeter City Council.

New homes planned on the edge of Exeter could all be affordable

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By on East Devon, Exeter, News, Property

Plans for more than 50 new homes on land at Alphington, on the edge of Exeter, could all be affordable a developer has pledged. Developers have applied for permission to build 67 more homes in fields on the outskirts of Exeter, writes local democracy reporter Guy Henderson. The application, by Wales-based Edenstone Homes, is to demolish an existing property known as Silverlands off Chudleigh Road at Alphington, to use the adjoining agricultural land for building. The development could be 100 per cent affordable, according to Edenstone, with the homes transferred to a registered provider. Silverlands is described as a ‘heritage…

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Hundreds of fish suffocated in hot mud in a drought-hit pond in East Devon. Photos:Alison Sheridan.

‘We missed the eclipse to save hundreds of fish’ – Community volunteers tackle ‘wildlife emergency’ in drought-hit East Devon pond

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By on East Devon, Exeter, News

Community rescuers battled a ‘wildlife emergency’ to save suffocating fish seen gasping for breath, caked in hot mud, in a drought-hit East Devon pond. Wildlife experts have warned people not to dump unwanted fish in local ponds after hundreds of suffocating goldfish, carp and other species were rescued from a hot mud-caked pool near Exeter, writes local democracy reporter Guy Henderson. Hundreds more are thought to have died as volunteers fought to rescue the floundering fish from the shallow water of the pool at Poltimore, in East Devon. The summer’s heatwave and drought have left the pond dangerously short of…

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Exeter College students celebrated a record 99.67 per cent A Level pass rate. Photo: with permission.

‘They should all be proud of their achievements’ – Exeter students celebrate ‘exceptional’ A Level results

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By on East Devon, Exeter, News

Exeter College students on Thursday (August 13) celebrated an ‘exceptional’ results day with a record 99.67 per cent A Level pass rate, above the national average of 97.89 per cent. Some 89 per cent of learners achieved A*-C, more than 10 per cent ahead of the national average of 78 per cent and surpassed the national average for Grammar Schools for the first time in the college’s history. The college said 63 per cent of learners achieved the high grades of A*-B, well ahead of the national average of 56 per cent. College T Levels learners achieved a ‘phenomenal record’…

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