Great news for the very active FOTB:, as reported in the Herald today:   Keith Owen Fund £1,000 boost for Friends of The Byes tree… Read More »Friends of the Byes gets £1,000 for its tree projects

The Herald highlights a very successful project:   Sid Vale’s Keith Owen Fund – Ten Years On During the past 10 years, the fund has… Read More »Keith Owen Fund celebrates ten years

We have a very ambitious plan from Devon County Council:   The Exeter Transport Strategy Consultation on the Exeter Transport Strategy 2020-2030 is now open.… Read More »Exeter Transport Strategy > consultation now open

Good news from Exeter as reported on Radio Exe: . Exeter bucks national trend with shop closures It’s the only city in the country where… Read More »Exeter: portrait of a city published: “educated, sustainable, unaffordable”

Buses are having a really hard time: Cutting rural bus services: “buses helped bring local people together” Fewer passengers on buses in the South West… Read More »Half of bus routes ‘at risk due to lack of funds’

Next weekend, there’ll be a lot of tree-planting going on: would you like to join in?   Can you help plant 2,200 trees for a… Read More »Join in planting Great Trees in the Clyst Valley

The Herald has been very supportive of the Foodbank:   Plea for donations from Sid Valley Foodbank The Sid Valley Foodbank said the help it… Read More »Sid Valley Food Bank needs more donations

We’ve had several high street bank closures: Sidmouth loses yet another high street bank Sidmouth loses another high street bank   In Ottery, plans have… Read More »District Council to invest in South West Mutual bank

The Herald on-line leads with not-unexpected news:   Appeal lodged to fight refusal of multi-million pound Sidford Business Park plans       Appeal lodged… Read More »Developers lodge appeal against refusal of plans for Sidford business park

What is the future for Exeter? Exeter Vision 2020: ‘sustainable development’?   Radio Devon carries pictures of plans for Exeter – but how more ‘liveable’… Read More »A better connected, more ‘liveable’ Exeter

Works are going ahead to protect East Devon’s cliffs – including at Jacob’s Ladder at Sidmouth’s western beach: Cliff safety works to be completed across… Read More »Work starting on protecting Sidmouth’s cliffs

We need to do something about our buses. For example: Invest in buses > “transport infrastructure makes a real difference to the effectiveness of local… Read More »We need a “radical reimagining of transport” > free buses

The Dawlish line is vital to connect Devon and Cornwall – and will be further secured: from Radio Exe: Plans for new Dawlish sea wall… Read More »Protecting the Dawlish train line with a new sea wall

As this piece in the Observer points out: Economic benefits of local buses eclipse unrealistic HS2 target Transport infrastructure makes a real difference to the… Read More »Invest in buses > “transport infrastructure makes a real difference to the effectiveness of local economies”

How to reduce traffic congestion and cars idling while dropping off for the school run? Radio Exe reports from a county council meeting: Stopping parents… Read More »Getting parents to cut down on the school run