Devon

Clawford Lakes is Making Waves in the UK Travel Industry

Clawford Lakes Resort and Spa , a stunning 80-acre Devon holiday destination, is celebrating its first anniversary bylaunching two new luxury escape packages to enable guests to create their perfect holiday. Both the Lake Spa and Water Sports Escape packages are available to book now and have been created to cater for lovers of tranquillity and relaxation or action and adventure.

The...

Local charity launch appeal for safe, trauma-informed women-only accommodation in the city

In celebration of their 30th Anniversary, local women’s charity, Trevi, is launching their Blossom Appeal, which will focus on raising funds for a women-only accommodation service based in the centre of Plymouth for women affected by trauma and abuse.

Covid-19 has brought gender inequalities into shocking prominence. Women have been disproportionately affected - domestic abuse...

Arts University Plymouth student designs interior for Plymouth’s Prom Cellar

Molly created the interior design for sustainability and cost-of-living initiative The Prom Cellar, where Year 11 students can buy a prom outfit for only £20

Molly Sullivan, a third-year BA (Hons) Interior Design and Styling student at Arts University Plymouth, has helped with the launch of the hugely successful project The Prom Cellar, run by Millfields Trust.

The Prom Cellar is a...

Top Male Choir to visit Devon

The celebrated City of Bath Male Choir will be performing at Crediton Congregational Church on Saturday July 15th. The choir received world-wide acclaim when they reached the final stages of the BBC’s popular Last Choir Standing series.

Since that time they have toured Europe as well as visiting Japan and the USA on two occasions. Most recently they were in Nashville in October 2022...

Hedge laying adds enrichment for Sanctuary donkeys

The Donkey Sanctuary’s ecology and conservation team, along with their band of trusty volunteers have been busy employing traditional country skills at the sanctuary in Sidmouth to create secure enclosures for the resident donkeys and provide added enrichment for the herds.

The group have used the method of hedge-laying across many areas of the sanctuary and have been working on...

Leading care agency to create 200 new healthcare jobs in the South West

Ocean Healthcare, one of the South West’s leading healthcare and nursing agencies, is set to support the region's healthcare sector with ambitious plans to employ 200 additional nurses and carers over the next 18 months. Having just entered its 10th year, Ocean Healthcare provides essential support to private nursing homes, hospices, hospitals, and residential homes across Devon, Cornwall,...

Two weeks left for voters to apply for free ID

There are just two weeks left to apply for a free Voter Authority Certificate, for voters that do not have another accepted form of photo ID they can use in polling stations this May. The Electoral Commission is calling on anyone that needs the free ID to apply now, before the deadline of 5pm on Tuesday 25 April.

Over 55,000 people have already applied for a Voter Authority...

Repairs planned on Drake's Trail near Tavistock

Essential repair work will be carried out on a section of Drake’s Trail between Tavistock and Horrabridge, starting next week.

Between Monday 17 April and Monday 22 May, part of the trail for the Gem Aerial Walkway will be closed from just south of the Grenofen Tunnel to the northern end of Gem Bridge.

The five-week closure is needed in order to replace existing timber...

Work on new homes in Sampford Peverell underway

THE foundations of new homes in Sampford Peverell will be laid imminently, the Edenstone Group has announced.

The homebuilder secured reserved matters planning approval to build 60 homes across a 10.53-acre parcel of land off Higher Town, west of Sampford Peverell last August.

Work to prepare the land for housing is now well underway.

Edenstone Group operations...

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