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Ashburton Recreation Centre celebrates top score in survey with price cut for 72 hours

Ashmore Recreation Centre, near Ashburton, is celebrating its 72 per cent score in the Quest accreditation scheme, with membership at 72 per cent of its normal price for a 72-hour [...]

The sunny side of the street? Council tax increase affects just one side of Teignmouth road

Living on one side of the street could add an average of £43 to residents council tax in Teignmouth. What’s worse is that they’re paying it to Dawlish Town [...]

One of the world's oldest shipwrecks found off Devon coast

One of the world’s oldest shipwrecks has been found in 8-10 metres of water in a bay near Salcombe, [...]

Totnes MP Anthony Steen fails in expenses appeal

Totnes MP Anthony Steen has failed in his appeal to not pay back more than £5,000 of the expenses he has claimed [...]

Flipping good events for half-term in Teignbridge

Half-term activities for children and young people in Teignbridge, South Devon, including pancake races, and holiday clubs and sports [...]

Sign of the times: parking permit woe in Newton Abbot

Newton Abbot resident Alison Lee can’t park in her residents’ parking bay when she gets home from work, forcing her onto double yellow lines and into [...]

Billy Elliot to make an appearance in Newton Abbot: Devon news round up

Trago Mills garden park development is safe. Newton Abbot Baker’s Park will undergo redevelopment, a Coffee Republic will open up in Newton Abbot, there are plans for a £5 million vocatoinal training centre for Newton Abbot, and Coombeshead College have been given permission to perform Billy [...]

Dawlish people campaign to keep The Manor House

Dawlish people protest at sale of town council’s Manor House [...]

40,000 terracotta figures, 38,000 visitors £850,000 boost to Torbay economy: the Devon Week in figures

Attracting nearly £1 million to the Bay, Antony Gormley’s Field for the British Isles at Torre Abbey’s Spanish Barn is a resounding [...]

£8.4M Shaldon and Ringmore tidal defence contract awarded

The Devon tidal defence contract at Shaldon and Ringmore, worth £8.4 million, has been awarded to [...]