Local housebuilder Allison Homes South West has hosted the group’s first ever Job Swap Day, giving its colleagues an opportunity to try their hand at almost any position in the company.
From working on-site, to within the sales department, colleagues were empowered to gain insight an experience in an alternative career for the day, and learn more about the breadth of career...
Improving the health and wellbeing of East Devon’s residents’ is a priority integral to every council service in the year ahead.
While people may be living longer lives, they are not necessarily in better health - this is something that East Devon District Council (EDDC) is seeking to improve. At a recent cabinet meeting, members agreed to an action plan for the year ahead.
Dates for guided tours of Higher Uppacott are now available to book. Higher Uppacott is a medieval farmhouse (longhouse) in which both people and cattle were accommodated under a single roof. As a Grade 1 listed building, it is also of national importance and one of the few remaining examples of this type of historic building. The only way to explore this building is to book on a guided tour...
This Easter, take a trip to Cockington Court and discover the Alien Eggs that have landed in the grounds. Pick up a trail map from the Manor House and hunt down the extra-terrestrial creations in this family friendly, Easter Egg trail around the Cockington Court estate.
A team of local sculptures, makers, painters and artists have created a wide range of alien-inspired, eye-catching...
A pilot study by environmental charity Keep Britain Tidy, funded thanks to generosity of players of People’s Postcode Lottery, has seen littering reduced by an average of 40% at hotspots when colourful signs are erected to tell the public about volunteer’s clean-up efforts.
The study was carried out ahead of this year’s Great British Spring Clean, the country’s biggest mass-action...
Residents from a Plymstock care home celebrated St Patrick’s Day in style with a party on Friday 17 March.
Staff at Anchor’s Selkirk House donned green costumes to get into the spirit of the day. The care home was decked out in shamrocks and green decorations made by the residents during arts and crafts activities to mark the feast day of Ireland’s patron saint, St Patrick.
Chief Inspector John Shuttleworth attended Honiton Police Station this week to hand out commemorative medals to the Rural East Devon Police Community Support Officers (PCSOs).
The medals are in recognition and celebration of the 20 year anniversary of PCSOs across Devon & Cornwall Police.
PCSO Darren England, PCSO Hayley Widger and PCSO Michael McGauley serve Honiton,...
Devon & Cornwall Detective Inspector was interviewed by Crimewatch Live to renew an appeal for information around brazen cable thefts in South Devon.
On Friday 17 March 2023, Detective Inspector Andy Turner from Devon & Cornwall Police appeared on Crimewatch LIVE on BBC ONE to discuss recent thefts of cables in South Devon, and appeal to anyone who may have information to...
Green-fingered volunteers and staff from leading building materials supplier, Aggregate Industries, have planted more than a thousand trees on the site of one of its Devon quarries.
A group of 35 volunteers made up of local residents, members of local environmental group the Uffculme Green Team and staff joined forces at the weekend to plant around 1,100 trees at Hillhead Quarry in...
