► THE Mid-Devon Advertiser team moves into its superb new town centre offices.

For more than 130 years the paper has served the people of Teignbridge and this move is making sure it stays at the heart of that community.

Editor Nick Knight said: ‘We’re really looking forward to welcoming people face to face in our new offices in the centre of the town as that’s where our papers belong – at the heart of our community.’

► UKRAINE dominates the news as the conflict begins to bite in Eastern Europe. Meanwhile people in Teignbridge show their generosity by digging deep into their pockets to help out.

► A VILLAGE’S vigil for the people of Ukraine has inspired an 11-year-old girl to raise more than £5,000 for Unicef’s Ukraine Appeal.

Charlotte Saunders said: ‘I was watching the news on the telly and I just wanted to do something as I felt so sorry for the children who have to go into bomb shelters every night.’

► NEWTON Abbot stood with Ukraine as residents of the town stood in support of the war-torn country.

The show of solidarity took place on Saturday at the town’s war memorial in an event organised by Newton Crisis Aid.

Around 200 people, many donning the blue and yellow colours of Ukraine or carrying the national flag, attended the vigil.

Newton Abbot resident Svetlana Pike, who moved from Ukraine to Newton Abbot in 1996, gave a poignant and moving speech to the the crowd.

‘I am very grateful to everyone who has turned up to express solidarity with us,’ she said.

► A COUPLE in Teignmouth are desperately trying to get their grandchildren to the UK from war-torn Ukraine.

Chris Clarke and his Ukrainian- born wife Lena, who is a British citizen, seem no nearer to getting their family out, 10 days after the UK Government announced its Family Scheme to allow applicants to join family members in the UK.

Lena, a pharmacy technician at Well Pharmacy in Teignmouth, has already flown out to Ukraine try to help her daughter-in-law Lesia and the children get to the UK.

Fortunately the family were reunited later in the summer.

► A TEAM from Newton Abbot Rotary Club have been ‘overwhelmed’ by the town’s generosity.

The trio, former town mayor and mayoress Keith and Pauline Smith, and Keith Walter were collecting in Courtenay Street and by lunchtime they estimated they’d already collected some £1,500.

Mr Walter said: ‘Normally when we do a street collection many people walk by, but this morning they’ve been coming up with money at the ready.

The last time we saw anything like this was after the Boxing Day tsunami.’

► THE BATTLE to save Teignmouth Hospital appears to have been lost after an independent panel agreed consultations on its future were adequate.

The hospital, the first to have been purpose built for the NHS in 1954, will now close with services moving to Dawlish Hospital and a new £8million well being health centre to be built on a site in Teignmouth town centre.

The decision has come as a blow to campaigners who have spent more than six years fighting to save the Mill Lane building with thousands signing a petition in support.

► THE FIRST batch of over 400 trees were planted at a Dawlish school last week. Students and staff at Orchard Manor School, along with members of the local community and invited dignitaries, joined in a Plant a Tree for the Jubilee event in honour of HRH the Queen for her Platinum Jubilee and The Queen’s Green Canopy initiative.

► RESIDENTS of Newton Abbot stood shoulder to shoulder in a night time vigil for Ukraine.

More than 50 people, many of whom lit and held a candle to mark the occasion, attend the vigil organised by Newton Crisis Aid.

Jacky Bennett of Newton Crisis Aid who helped organise the event said: ‘It’s been a collective effort of about five or six of us. It is just to show support, and to recognise that what’s going on in Ukraine is something that we never thought would happen.’

► DEVON traffic wardens are experiencing ‘unacceptable’ verbal abuse from the public, councillors have been told.

A report to a county council scrutiny meeting revealed 77 reported incidents in the past three years, with the vast majority relating to verbal abuse.