News in Axminster

Axminster traders are counting down to Fiver Fest, which will kick off this weekend, encouraging shoppers to support their local high street.

More than 40 businesses have signed up to take part in the Totally Locally Fiver Fest, offering special £5 deals to customers in a bid to boost trade following lockdown.

East Devon has recorded 11 new cases of coronavirus in the past seven days, remaining the same as last week.

Across Devon, the total number of new coronavirus cases confirmed has risen – but fallen in Plymouth and Cornwall.

East Devon District Council has agreed in principle to borrowing of up to £20million to invest in the Exeter and East Devon Enterprise Zone.

The investment will help to boost economic recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic, support new employment and provide opportunities for clean and inclusive growth.

Home Instead Senior Care- Exeter and East Devon are a top quality home care provider rated 5-Star Outstanding by the CQC.

We have vacancies for the right people to work in Axminster providing the highest quality non-medical care, personal care, home help, meal preparation and companionship, allowing the elderly to live independently in their own homes.

In this very difficult and trying time for all, volunteers are working hard to to keep Axminster's Flamingo Pool open and with the help and support of the town they are confident they can achieve this goal.

Without a dedicated management team, the safe re-opening of the pool would not have been possible. They have worked long and hard, under extremely difficult circumstances, and the pool team thanks them for their unstinted efforts.

It has been more than five weeks since East Devon had a death attributed to the coronavirus, according to new statistics from the Office of National Statistics (ONS).

Despite a recent rise in local cases of COVID-19, with 11 new cases confirmed in East Devon, there have been no associated deaths in the district for more than five weeks.

East Devon District Council and police have been made aware of a proliferation of Himalayan Balsam, an invasive plant, in various rural parishes in the area.

This plant can cause ecological damage and can be considered a nuisance. As such, landowners whose land the plants are growing on have a responsibility to ensure that the plants are contained and disposed of properly and that they do not spread beyond their land.

WORSHIPPERS from the Axe Valley Mission Community churches celebrated Harvest Festival with an outdoors service.

As a thank you to all local farmers who have continued working during the pandemic, the mission is organised a drive-in harvest festival - Harvest 2000.

Pippins Community Centre in Axminster is today launching a crowdfunding appeal and is urging the people of Axminster to "dig deep" to help them continue their much-admired work in the town.

Pippins is a registered charity but will soon become a Community Interest Organisation (CIO).

Charity Togs in South Street, Axminster, was broken into during the early hours of Saturday morning.

Money and goods from the shop were stolen and a considerable mess was made.