Leaders in Devon have reacted to the Government’s announcement to pause plans for its local authority shake-up, revealing councils have been left with ‘an enormous bill’…
Exmouth motorists and holidaymakers face travelling to Exeter or Sidmouth to renew driving licences and passports when the town centre Post Office closes at the end…
A developer has scrapped plans to replace a soon-to-be demolished glass Exeter city centre footbridge amid a development of hundreds of co-living flats on an empty…
An Exmouth holiday park annually hosting thousands of visitors is lobbying the district council to extend its season and open over the winter. A major Devon…
Exeter Green councillors are calling for the city to ‘show some bottle’ and back their call for public water stations on authority-owned sites. Exeter needs better…
News in-brief from East Devon – Axminster, Exmouth, Sidmouth, Honiton, Seaton. Email your community news, photos and what’s on to newsdesk@eastdevonnews.co.uk Axminster Axminster police at the…
A suspended jail sentence has been slapped on an Ottery St Mary man who last summer attacked a 57-year-old pub-goer. Samuel Whitcombe, aged 46, of Brook…
East Devon planners have approved a blueprint for 105 new homes on a green wedge of land that currently acts as a buffer to stop Rockbeare…
Plans have been lodged to demolish an outdated Exeter sports centre to make way for a ‘transformational’ new leisure hub with café, studio and gym. The…
A ‘bog-standard’ primary school for Cranbrook has been waved through by East Devon planners amid concerns over its ‘uninspiring’ design. Plans for a vital extra school…