EXHIBITION Road between Crediton and Bickleigh is to be shut for six hours a day for five days in October. 

The A3072 will be closed between the hours of 9.30am and 3.30pm from Monday, October 7 to Friday, October 11. 

The closure will only affect the road between Creedy Bridge and Nomansland Cross. It will also shut the adjoining road from the Creedy Bridge junction to Lower Creedy Cross. 

The diversion route will be via the A377 through Newton St Cyres, Cowley Bridge and the A396 through Stoke Canon to Bickleigh and the A3072 back to the closure point.  

For more information you can telephone Sunbelt Rentals on 03700 500792. 

Exhibition Road is also scheduled to be closed from Monday, August 5 with an anticipated finish of Friday, August 30 from Bramble Lane to the junction of Old Tiverton Road. 

Devon County Council drainage works have already shut the road twice this year in April and July.