News in Exmouth

Each week Exmouth Nub News will be featuring a different business in the town on our site to help support our wonderful community.

This week, we speak to Mrs Snuggles aka Lisa Hamer, of Mrs Snuggles Workshop The Ultimate Children's Experience, based in Exmouth High Street.

The number of people in hospital across Devon and Cornwall, following a positive COVID-19 test, has risen by 20 per cent in the last week.

The NHS England figures, released this morning (Friday, October 30), give the latest details of the admissions and diagnoses of coronavirus patients by hospital trust.

More than 1,000 Exmouth households have voted on how £300,000 of sport money should be spent in the town.

East Devon District Council is now inputting and analysing the votes to see if any age groups or locations are significantly under-represented.

The responsibility of the highway flood gates in Exmouth, which helps to stop the town from flooding, has been taken on by East Devon District Council (EDDC).

Installed on the seafront, the flood gates are considered essential, and if they are not operated, up to 1,500 residential properties, plus numerous commercial properties, could be at risk of flooding during a storm.

An Exmouth woman who brings joy to hundreds of children has been filing empty tummies during the half term.

Lisa Hamer, who is better known as Mrs Snuggles, has been handing out free pack lunches since Monday in response to the Government's decision to not provide free school meals to children who need them over the holiday.

New figures showing the breakdown of positive COVID-19 cases by age group and local authority area have finally been released by the Government.

The figures, concerning positive cases reported this week - Thursday, October 22 to Tuesday, October 27 - show that in Devon the 20-29 age group are seeing the highest number of cases.

An Exmouth nurse and his husband will soon move into their dream seaside home, thanks to a NHS and care worker discount scheme, offered by a major housing developer.

Ashley, 30, and his husband James, 29, have recently bought a four-bedroom home in Taylor Wimpey's new Plumb Park development.

Exmouth fitness fantastics involved in an organisation dedicated to helping the community have been celebrating a special award.

Fitness organisation Tri-Hards is thrilled to announce it has won 'The Devon Pride Awards 2020 for Community Sport'.

A further eight deaths relating to coronavirus have been registered in the latest Office for National Statistics (ONS) figures across Devon and Cornwall.

The figures from the ONS, relating to the week of October 10 and October 16 but registered up to October 24, show that six of the 335 deaths registered in the two counties had COVID-19 mentioned on the death certificate.

An Exmouth councillor who was alleged to have 'ridiculed, harassed and insulted' a top council boss, has been ordered to apologise and undertake training.

Independent Councillor Paul Millar was accused of bullying and not treating others with courtesy and respect, breaking East Devon District Council's (EDDC) code of conduct.