News in Seaton

Small businesses and the tourism sector across Devon, Plymouth, Somerset and Torbay are among those who can benefit from the Growth Support Kickstart Grant Scheme offering grants of up to £3,000.

Application forms for the grant are available on the Growth Support Kickstart Grant website from 12noon today (September 1st).

'Oven-ready' schemes to improve local infrastructure need national funding

As children return to school, Covid still seems to be largely under control in Devon. Outbreaks have included a group of cases in Seaton and Axminster which - like the widely publicised episode in Plymouth - involved holidaymakers returning from overseas.

Coastguards were called on Saturday evening to assist a man who had fallen from a rope swing at the top of Jubilee Gardens in Beer.

The coastguard team were called at 7.49pm to help paramedics and the Hazardous Area Response Team (HART).

Seaton Open Air Cinema will return next month with a screening of 'The Greatest Showman'.

The outdoor screening will be held in Cliff Field Gardens on Saturday, September 12 with gates opening at 6.30pm for an 8pm start.

A spike in coronavirus cases in East Devon, with the number of positive results across Devon more than tripling in recent weeks, is down to returning holidaymakers, according to the county's Director of Public Health.

There have been five cases confirmed by specimen date in East Devon in the past week, four of which were in Seaton.

Tourists coming to Devon and Cornwall are being urged to plan ahead and respect communities across the peninsula as the Bank Holiday weekend gets underway.

Many thousands of visitors, some already in the region, are expected to be residing in the counties over the three-day weekend with congested roads and demand on all emergency services resources expected to be high.

A Promote Seaton meeting held yesterday via video conferencing app Zoom was well supported.

Seaton Town Council reported on Facebook today that "it was pleasing to see so many ideas coming forward" as the partnership was relaunched following the coronavirus lockdown.

The Department for Education has produced school transport guidelines as it prepares for a full return of students in September, and Devon County Council has been working with schools, colleges and transport operators to plan for this return.

Social distancing guidance, which applies to passengers on public transport, will not apply on dedicated school transport which is not open to the general public.

East Devon has had its first coronavirus related death in seven weeks, according to new figures from the Office of National Statistics (ONS).

Two deaths in Devon and Cornwall relating to coronavirus have been recorded in the latest ONS figures.

The official trailer for an upcoming movie based on Lyme Regis' famous fossil hunter, Mary Anning, has been released today.

The trailer for 'Ammonite' has been posted on YouTube, showing Oscar-winning actress Kate Winslet as the working class palaeontologist Anning and Saoirse Ronan as Charlotte Murchison, a privileged young woman sent to convalesce by the sea.