Seaside entertainment featuring puppets, magic and songs will return to Devon’s beaches, promenades and quaysides this summer thanks to apprenticeships helping to keep traditional performance forms alive and well through training emerging local artists.
Promenade shows with slapstick, songs and Punch and Judy have become increasingly rare as holiday habits change but that won’t be...
Work to install a temporary bridge over Martinhoe Bridge in North Devon will start next week (Monday 1 August) to enable the road to re-open as soon as possible. Martinhoe Bridge, located near the Hunters Inn on Exmoor, was closed for safety reasons earlier this month after a routine inspection by Devon County Council found serious structural defects. From Monday, a 90-tonne crane will lift...
A new, non-invasive method to measure and monitor seagrass biomass on the seabed around England’s South West coast is being developed as part of an ongoing, collaborative project.
The innovative new technique is currently being trialled by local companies HydroSurv in Exeter and Totnes based Valeport, working with the University of Plymouth and Natural England, and supported by a grant...
Participants across the country are being invited to sign up to the Leukaemia Care Step Out Challenge for Spot Leukaemia, which launches this September.
The aim is to move as far as you can between 1st and 30th September and raise as much as you can - there’s no minimum limit. To take part you can walk, run, cycle or run and set whatever distance you want to. Once signed up, all you...
Devon has been ranked* as second best in the country for patient experience of general practice, according to the 2022 England-wide GP Patient Survey.
The results have shown overwhelming public backing for Devon’s GP surgeries, with eight in ten respondents reporting a good experience of their practice.
The GP Patient Survey, administered by Ipsos on behalf of NHS England,...
British Touring Shakespeare are delighted to come to two beautiful Devon venues: Blackberry Farm near Holsworthy with their hilarious new production of the Shakespeare comedy The Merry Wives Of Windsor ; and The Plough Arts Centre at Lapford Mill near Crediton with a brand new adaptation of Bram Stoker’s classic gothic horror tale Dracula .
A partially sighted woman from Devon will be walking, running or cycling 15 miles a day for 1,000 days to raise money for Blind Veterans UK, the national charity for vision-impaired ex-Service men and women.
Laura Cartmill, 31 and from Brixham, will be completing the challenge between October this year and July 2025. By the end of the 1,000 days she will have travelled 15,000 miles...
A new free and confidential digital mental health and wellbeing service for adults is now available across Devon, Plymouth and Torbay.
Qwell (www.qwell.io), delivered by mental health provider Kooth , will ensure that every adult living in the Devon has access to a choice of support to managing their own emotional health and wellbeing.
Environment Agency flood defences in Devon and Cornwall are becoming chattier than ever, engaging passersby in conversations about flood risk and plastic pollution.
Text message conversations can be struck up with flood defences and other assets by scanning QR codes mounted on them or nearby in four locations, with a fifth to be added later this year.
