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What to do with your “left over” pumpkin bits, Trading Standards advice for costumes, keeping safe when Treat or Treating and advice if you are elderly and worried about strangers knocking on your door …… it can all be found at https://content.govdelivery.com/accounts/UKDEVONCC/bulletins/1be8806.

The defibrillator is now commissioned and ready to use. It is situated on the pillar of the Payhembury Provisions porch. Please note the emergency phone is a small box just above the defib. All you do is press the button to be connected to the 999 operator and they will give you the code for the box. The purpose of this is to make sure the ambulance is called. Nearly forty people attended the Defibrillator Awareness evening in the hall given by Tina from Community Heartbeat. Everybody found it stimulating, non-threatening and entertaining, being pitched at just the right level. […]

Payhembury Parish Broadband status as of 28/09/17 It is worth considering the parish in sections: Payhembury village to the east and south of the school (incl. all properties in EX14 3HT): Openreach have told us that all properties to the east and south of the school should be being connected to the new cabinet outside the school (cabinet 4). Approximately half the properties in this area are connected and, upon signing up to superfast broadband, are enjoying speeds of 30-50Mbps depending on distance from the cabinet. We are aware that 75 properties are currently not connected. Openreach have told us […]

Guard your personal details. Identity theft is reaching epidemic levels, warns fraud prevention group, Cifas. “We have seen identity fraud attempts increase year on year….with identities being stolen at a rate of almost 500 a day,” says Cifas Chief Executive, Simon Dukes. Fraudsters are obtaining personal information, such as names, addresses, dates of birth and bank account details, by hacking computers, trawling social media, stealing mail, tricking people to disclose their details, or buying information through the ‘dark web’. And they’re using it to pretend to be that individual for their own financial gain, applying for loans or store cards in […]

Around 190 people accidentally die at the British and Irish coasts each year, with around half never intending to go into the water in the first place. The RNLI is the charity that saves lives at sea. Respect the Water is a vital part of the RNLI’s work to have coastal drownings by 2024. How you can help Everyone can play a role in helping the RNLI prevent drowning: Look out for Respect the Water adverts in cinemas, on billboards and online and listen out for it on radio stations across the UK and Republic of Ireland this summer Watch […]

The closing time at Honiton MIU is now 8pm every day instead of 10pm. The reduction in hours has been caused by staffing difficulties, and the situation is due to be reviewed before the end of the year. Meanwhile, the future of inpatients beds at the hospital is threatened by an NHS Devon Clinical Commissioning Group’s proposal to close them. A steering group of objectors has been formed in Honiton to fight the proposal

ClickB4UCall – why call when you don’t need to… Need to report a non-urgent crime, visit www.dc.police.uk/reportcrime