In early 2024, many parents looked at the calendar with a degree of confusion: the schools were going back on the 9th January, and not – as with the previous year – on the 2nd. The question of what to ...

One of Sidmouth’s most historic buildings has gone up in flames. The Knowle building has been wrecked in a dramatic blaze which has rocked the town this morning. Best known as being the HQ for East ...

But the 1960s saw the hotel industry struggle, Knowle was put up for sale, and bought by the Sidmouth Urban District Council for use as their officers, and the surplus part adapted for flats. The park ...

Plans to revive the fortunes of a Sidmouth hotel have been unanimously rejected by East Devon District Council (EDDC). The scheme for the Grade II-listed Richmond Hotel, in Elysian Fields, included ...