Meet The Best Ice Cream Parlour in the UK: Devon’s Ice Cream Family Establishment Honoured at the 2025 ICA Awards Night.

With humble beginnings as a fourth-generation dairy farm selling small-batch ice cream from a converted wooden summerhouse, The Otter Valley Ice Cream & Field Kitchen has soared above the competition to scoop up the prestigious 2024 Parlour of the Year award...

The Neighbourhood Plan for Clyst Honiton has been formally ‘made’ by East Devon District Council following an overwhelming vote of support in the local referendum. The plan is now a fully adopted part of the statutory development plan, alongside the East Devon Local Plan, and will be used to guide planning decisions within the designated Neighbourhood Area.

This milestone marks the...

A Plymouth hospital has pledged to support a local charity for the entire year and aims to raise £2000 to help its work with vulnerable families in the community.

As well as getting hands-on volunteering at Project 35’s food bank at Manadon Sports Hub last week, staff at Practice Plus Group Hospital, Plymouth, have chosen to focus on a series of fundraising drives for the charity...

Alongside local employers, education providers, local authorities, the health sector and employability-focused organisations, the Chartered Institute for the Management of Sport and Physical Activity (CIMSPA) have implemented a local skills plan for the sport and physical activity workforce in Devon.

Developed by the Devon Local Skills Accountability Board (LSAB), the plan identifies...

Local bus operator Stagecoach South West announces improvements to its bus network across Devon from 20 April 2025. Working in partnership with Devon County Council, and funded by Bus Service Improvement Plan funding from the Department for Transport, customers across Devon will benefit from more frequent bus services. For customers travelling within Exeter, there will be more buses to...

The Dartmouth & District Food Bank is pleased to announce a generous £500 donation to Dartmouth Academy, part of Education South West, to assist students with purchasing uniforms.

This donation is part of the ongoing effort to support local pupils and families, ensuring they have the resources needed to succeed in their education.

The cheque was presented today by Cllr...

The Exe Sailing Club, in Exmouth, has just been awarded British Sailing Pathway Club status by the Royal Yachting Association (RYA).

One of only a few clubs in the South-West of England to have received the recognition, it rewards the club’s high quality commitment to inspiring junior sailors to have fun, develop great fundamentals and embrace a lifelong love of sailing. To further...

Castle Drogo, in Devon, is celebrating 50 years since first being opened to public under the care of the National Trust. The castle opened to the public for the first time on Friday 28 March 1975.

The first visitor through the door on that freezing March day was Bernhard Hadwin, who proudly remembered getting ticket number 00001. “that first ticket was precious,” he remembered. “A...