Everything else is public relations Upgrade to paid
Martin Redfern
Exeter City Council proposals to spend £100,000 on a splash pool in St Thomas, a marginal ward in which the council’s deputy leader nearly lost her seat at last year’s local elections, has led council news coverage of a budget which cuts more than £3 million of public spending.
Exeter Observer is owned and funded by its readers instead of remote shareholders, corporate advertisers or individuals bound to those in power.
This means we are free to focus on local news that matters instead of reproducing content marketing clickbait, press releases or public relations spin.
It is our paying subscribers who enable us to cover stories that the people and organisations we scrutinise would rather you did not see.
We need more of our readers to contribute to our running costs so we can keep publishing our independent investigative journalism.
172 of the 300 paying subscribers we need to break even have signed up so far.
Please support our work by joining them today from less than £2/week.
MONDAY 15 TO SATURDAY 20 JUNE 2026
Refugee Support Devon celebrates annual event with a film screening, radio programme and live performance alongside month-long fundraising campaign.
EXETER CITY CENTRE
Financing for second phase yet to be found as adjacent Rennes House demolition costs rise to £1 million and Exeter City Living reports year-end loss in residual Guildhall flats management role.
Survey inviting feedback on city council word salad arrives two years late, following second UK City of Culture bid failure, with delivery plan outsourced to secretive, unelected sub-committee.
, updated
Sentencing in second case awaited, scope of third legal action expanded and Devon County Council announces desire to pursue company through courts on same day Pennon Group reports £135 million underlying pre-tax profits in 2025-26.
Government white paper proposes England and Wales National Police Service and creation of as few as ten “super-forces” overseeing newly-defined local policing areas.
