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• Second Tiny Forest Planted in Exmouth’s Brixington Park

  With support from Devon County Council’s completed three-year Emergency Tree Fund, East Devon District Council organized community volunteers to plant a second site at Brixington Park.

• Exeter traffic trial focus groups demand safer streets

  Some communities in Exeter are calling for safer streets and slower traffic in the wake of an aborted ‘active streets’ experiment which divided the city.

• Do you have a spare bedroom or an unoccupied home?

  The City Council is keen to work with homeowners and landlords who have unoccupied homes or empty bedrooms. The Council’s Housing Access Team can offer free advice and support to help bring homes back into use or start a host family journey.

• Innovative new service gives patients with suspected cancer answers more quickly

  A new service has been introduced at the Nightingale Hospital Exeter to get patients with suspected cancer a diagnosis and treatment more quickly.

• Exeter’s waterways welcome new electric boat

  The transition to electric power on Exeter’s waterways progresses as a new electric boat has been deployed to perform daily operations.

• Regularly seeing the same GP could free up NHS appointments, research shows

  The new research, published in the British Journal of General Practice, suggests seeing the same GP results in fewer follow-up appointments, both in practices and in A&E departments of hospitals.

• Final consultation launched by Environment Agency into landfill site proposals in Whitestone near Exeter

  GRS Stone Supplies Ltd needs an environmental permit from the Environment Agency to operate the proposed site. The company has provided all the information needed, and the Environment Agency is now likely to grant the permit, unless new information gives a reason not to.

• Police Warn Exeter Businesses About Fake Notes After Reports of Fraudulent Activity

  Devon & Cornwall Police are urging businesses in Exeter to remain vigilant following reports of fake banknotes being used in transactions across the city yesterday.