News in Exmouth

As Exmouth's shops, restaurants and other traders prepare to reopen for business, they are being offered help to make sure they are Covid-compliant.

If all goes to plan, non-essential retailers, along with hairdressers and nail salons, will be allowed to open on April 12, and pubs and restaurants will be able to serve customers indoors from May 17.

Devon's Campaign to Protect Rural England (CPRE) is inviting nominations for its 2021 'best churchyard' competition, and is expecting a large number of entries.

The charity says local people have appreciated the green spaces around their churches 'like never before' during the Covid pandemic, with many churchyards becoming 'real sanctuaries' for the local community to exercise and observe nature, not just for churchgoers.

Crime drama series, The Serpent, has proved a great success since it came to our screens in January. But the man who produced the hit TV series advises you not to watch it on your own!

It was developed by Mammoth Screen for BBC One and Netflix and tells the story of how conman and murderer Charles Sobhraj, played by Tahar Rahim, was eventually caught with his girlfriend Marie-Andree Leclerc, played by Jenna Coleman.

Proposals for more than 300 new homes on the edge of Exmouth have been given planning permission, even though some councillors were very unhappy with the prospect.

East Devon District Council's planning committee almost unanimously backed the recommendation of officers to approve the scheme for the Goodmores Farm site at Hulham Road.

An art competition for children and teenagers has been announced by the town mayor and Exmouth In Bloom.

The organisers say they're looking for 'colourful pictures to reflect the positives of life in lockdown'.

Exmouth Nub News is excited to announce the launch of its free new weekly newsletter.

Each and every Friday we will be bringing hyperlocal news straight to your e-mail inbox.

A free online course is being offered to people in Devon who would like to start a social enterprise – a business that makes money, but also benefits their community.

The course is part of Devon County Council's response to the Covid crisis and is open to people who are unemployed or at risk of losing their jobs.

East Devon District Council has welcomed the shelving of 'illogical' Government plans to increase the number of new homes that must be built in the area.

The proposals involved changes to the housebuilding targets for each district, and would have seen new house numbers rise from 928 to 1,614 every year in East Devon.

A project to transform the roundabout at the entrance to Exmouth town centre has reached a landmark stage, with the installation of three metal sculptures representing fish swimming through fronds of seaweed.

The sculptures have been created by Hemyock-based artist and blacksmith Anthony Doble, based on drawings by Exmouth In Bloom's Graham Bell, who's also a member of Exmouth Art Group. Anthony worked on the sculptures during lockdown and came to install them earlier this month.

What's that bright dot, high up in space, moving across the dark early-morning sky? Could it be Santa's sleigh, flying around the world to deliver presents to all the good children?

Well, actually the scientists tell us it's the International Space Station. But who knows?