Devon children to get £2m help with music lessons

The money is part of more than £100m being allocated across England, said the Arts Council

Nearly £2m is being put into "high-quality music education" for children in Devon, Arts Council England's south-west area has announced.

A "Devon Music Hub" will get £1.9m and will start operating from September, it said.

The council said the money would be spent in "schools and organisations across Devon, Plymouth and Torbay".

The money was part of more than £100m being allocated to music hubs across England, it added.

Phil Gibby, south-west area director of Arts Council England, said he was "thrilled" to award £12.5m from the Department for Education to seven music hubs across the south-west of England.

Each would "link thousands of children and young people with high-quality music education - because everyone everywhere should be able to pick up an instrument and express themselves", he said.