Local authorities in south west England are among the bodies which could benefit from £9.5 million in new UK government funding being announced.

Thirteen is the age when parents feel comfortable giving their children more independence. New research reveals this milestone in the south west, with freedoms including staying home alone, wearing ...

Think you're good at general knowledge or clued up on pop culture? Take this week's pub quiz to see how you score.

A personal finance expert has warned bank account holders to "send their money out to work" if they have had it gathering dust - so to speak - in the same account for years. Recent data from ...

The swashbuckling image of smugglers playing cat and mouse with the authorities has more in common with Hollywood than with reality, write ...

Here are some fresh ideas to keep the kids entertained in East Devon during the last two weeks of the school summer holiday.

Sidmouth Independent Lifeboat was tasked to assist a trawler approximately two miles south of Sidmouth, after the vessel became disabled ...

A summer fair for the Exmouth Stroke Survivors Club is set to take place this month. The event will be held at All Saints Church on Church Road, Exmouth, from 10am to 2pm on Monday. There will be live ...

This brilliant series of black and white aerial photos by former Journal photographer Julie Hodge shows just how Exmouth has changed over the past 25 years.

Experts believe Exeter took more of a battering from the Luftwaffe during the Second World War than the history books say it did.

Drivers have been warned that a common ‘friendly gesture’ to other motorists could land them in hot water and facing a £1,000 fine. An estimated 150,000 drivers are caught speeding each year in the UK ...

Angry beachgoers in Exmouth have reportedly left the town beach today after a suspected pollution incident caused unsafe levels of ammonia in ...