A teenager who threatened a driver with a knife after a street confrontation said he carried the weapon because of school bullying.

The number of people with drinking problems, receiving specialist treatment, rose last year, figures show.

An Exmouth drug dealer, caught with £10,000 worth of drugs, has avoided jail time.

The search for suitable and affordable accommodation is the last challenge in the project to re-home a family from a war-torn country in the Budleigh Salterton area.

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The election of an independent councillor as its leader has marked the start of a new era for the district council.

Six MEPs will be elected to represent the South West, and the successful candidates will be announced following the count on Sunday

The annual district council meeting being held at Blackdown House in Honiton will decide the political make up of key committees and panels for the next 12 months

Days are counting down to the annual Stockland Fair.

Pirates, dinosaurs, a boat trip, a vintage vehicle rally and special wildlife events - plenty of things for the whole family to do over half-term.

Ten large colourful structures for children to climb, bounce and slide on will be at the Imperial Recreation Ground next month

A wealth of historic treasure was unearthed by fortune hunters in the area over the last year.

Large crowds are expected to descend on Budleigh Salterton over the course of eight days for an annual marathon of charitable events.

Colourful costumes, exciting choreography and plenty of songs to sing along to in this show celebrating classic and modern Disney stories

Registered voters are set to go to the polls on Thursday (May 23) to decide who sit in the European Parliament - but why vote?

A service of commemoration is being held in Exmouth to remember the 75th anniversary of D-day and a key battle from World War Two.

Robot lawnmowers are being trialled in two East Devon towns as a way to trim the district council's recruitment and operational costs.

A group of young rugby players from Exmouth have raised around £1,500 for a youth peer support group - by 'gunging' their chairman while on a tour of Cornwall.

The new name given to Exmouth's new watersports centre has been revealed and comes from a term used in kite surfing.

Possible locations for more than 57,000 new homes will be revealed next month.

An iconic traditional tea room in Budleigh Salterton has gone on the market for the second time in 12 months.

A man who carried out sexual assaults on a girl - who only later on realised she had been has been abused - has been jailed for almost nine years.

Stagecoach has announced a new 'night bus' will be launched later this month which will run very half hour between midnight and 4am

One Exmouth household won £1,000 thanks to the People's Postcode Lottery

A new location but there was the same celebration of entrepreneurial innovation and business success at the Exmouth Business Awards.

A group of determined swimmers covered nearly 300 miles to raise funds for a charity supporting young people's mental health.

More than one thousand low-income families will benefit from having solar panels on their roof - helping to alleviate the cost of energy.

The plight of a child diagnosed with a birth defect has inspired residents at an Exmouth care home to raise a four-figure some for her.

Exmouth Town councillors have 'strongly opposed' a street trading application by Oliver Bainbridge for a licensed box trailer bar in the beach gardens

Take a look at some of the pictures taken on the third day of the Devon County Show 2019.