With the Summer Bank Holiday around the corner, Vodafone has improved its 4G mobile coverage in Exmouth, Devon so staycation-ers arriving for the weekend, as well as residents and local businesses, can make the most of faster data speeds and more reliable calls. The upgrade is part of Vodafone’s ongoing network modernisation programme to improve 4G and bring 5G to more customers around the UK...
August bank holiday fast approaching, and Devon will be home to some fantastic events ideal for celebrating summer. From Air shows to beach adventures, Sweetcombe Cottage Holidays have sourced five events you don’t want to miss this bank holiday.
1. Sidmouth Regatta
Hosting an array of activities all weekend, including an incredible Air Show featuring the Red Arrows on Friday...
Wildlife walks, stream dipping, crafts, hunts for minibeasts – all this and more is part of this year’s Meldon Wildlife Festival. At Old Meldon Quarry, Dartmoor National Park Authority is hosting the day-long family festival packed with activities, games and crafts. The festival on Tuesday 23 August celebrates Dartmoor’s special qualities and is completely free to attend. The Authority is...
We are tremendously proud of our pupils for the excellent set of results that they have achieved with over half being awarded A* or A for their A Levels.
This is the generation of pupils arguably most affected by Covid. Not only were their studies disrupted, but they also were the ones not to write GCSE exams. This year was their first experience of sitting public exams and they...
For the second year, The Donkey Sanctuary in Sidmouth will be one of the award-winning venues celebrating the incredible food and drink on offer throughout the region as part of the Taste East Devon food and drink festival in September.
The Donkey Sanctuary’s Taste of the West award-winning restaurant The Kitchen will host ‘Sowing with Donkeys’ on Thursday 15 September, and invites...
In a record-breaking year, four of East Devon’s parks and green spaces are raising their prestigious Green Flag Awards
East Devon District Council (EDDC) is celebrating after receiving four Green Flag Awards for: Sidmouth’s Connaught Gardens and Peak Hill Slope, Exmouth’s Manor Gardens, Seaton’s Seafield Gardens and the jewel in the East Devon crown, Seaton Wetlands Nature Reserve...
South Devon College A level students are celebrating their exam results today with a 98% overall pass rate.
This year sees the continuation of the College’s history of high pass rates with 70% A*- C and around half of the cohort achieving an excellent A* to B result.
The College is celebrating 100% achievement rates across a broad mix of subjects including English literature...
At a recent gathering at Barton Cricket Club in Torquay, a group of young cricketers and their coaches learnt about the new night landing site for Devon Air Ambulance at their ground and how it can be used to help local people.
The surveyed floodlit night landing site at Cricketfield Road playing field enables Devon Air Ambulance to land in Torquay during the ‘hours of darkness’...
A Littleham group, which is leading the way forward, celebrating its community by bringing residents together, has gone from strength to strength.
After seeing the success of the Littleham Squilometre, which received a £5,000 cash injection from East Devon District Council (EDDC), the authority is keen to invest in the start-up of similar projects that can celebrate the district’s...
LIFESAVING defibrillators have been bought by Specsavers in Plymouth to provide rapid support to people in cardiac arrest.
Automatic external defibrillators can be the difference between life and death, and the staff learned about the machines’ importance when they attended a first-aid course.
The course inspired them to buy the defibrillators and install them in the stores...
