As schools close their doors for the summer holidays, Devon County Council says that it's aware that the financial challenges facing some households in Devon will be intensified over the next few weeks.
Increased costs such as food and activities, particularly with the current cost of living, and reduced incomes due to childcare, mean that this year’s holiday break could be...
For the fifth summer, marshals are being deployed across Dartmoor to support the work of the National Park’s Rangers. The Dartmoor Marshals have proved to be an invaluable resource for the busier months, providing high-visibility patrols to reduce the impact of anti-social behaviour. They will also play a vital role in engaging with visitors so people feel safe and have a great time. Marshals...
Bob Beggs, a 64-year-old, professional sailor from Plymouth, UK, has led his team to victory in the Clipper Round the World Yacht Race; a first in the event’s 28 year history. With over 40,000 nautical miles (46,000 miles) of racing, six ocean crossings, fourteen races and eleven months away on the ocean race track, Bob and his Ha Long Bay, Viet Nam team was crowned Clipper 2023-24 Race...
Children at Cullompton Pre-school will have extra resources to help with their outdoor learning and activities thanks to a donation from local homebuilder Bellway.
The company, which is building new homes a few miles away at its Fox Mill Gardens development in Willand, gave the pre-school £250 to spend on raffle prizes for its summer fete on Saturday 22 June.
A family will walk 110 miles in August as a tribute to their “heart hero” son, Callum, who underwent life-saving open heart surgery last year – while raising funds for the Fire Fighters Charity and two other causes close to their hearts.
Ricky Wooldridge, who’s Callum’s dad, is an on-call firefighter for Devon & Somerset Fire and Rescue Service – based at Okehampton and North...
New figures from The Bikeability Trust show over 57,156 children in the South West had the opportunity to get pedalling with Bikeability cycle training between April 2023 and March 2024. The top performing authorities in the South West for 2023–24 were Plymouth, Devon and Torbay. Across England 560,471 pupils booked on to Bikeability training between April 2023 and March 2024.
National Grid Electricity Distribution and Warm Welcome have announced a new partnership as part of their “Warm Welcome for All” pledge – a commitment towards the vision of everyone in the UK having free access to warm, welcoming community spaces.
The news comes as National Grid and Warm Welcome hosted a roundtable at National Grid’s HQ, chaired by former Prime Minister, the Rt Hon...
Teign School in Kingsteignton, part of Education South West , has officially opened its new maths building this month.
The new maths facility is housed in the school’s A Block, which is one of the longer standing buildings at Teign. The school’s founding building was built in 1936 and as the local community has grown, so has the school site, a new purpose built Science building was...
A MOTHER-of-two who was homeless has praised Plymouth opticians for coming to her aid when she was worried about her sight.
With one in three people who are experiencing homelessness needing glasses, staff at the Specsavers Plymouth store are keen to improve access to eyecare for those without a place to sleep or a fixed address.
Network Rail is urging people to stay off the tracks and not put themselves and others at risk new safety figures reveal that there were more than 19,300 trespass incidents on the rail network (2,682 on the Wessex route) in the 2023/24 financial year – that’s one every half an hour.
Across the Wessex route in 2023/24, there were 2,682 trespass incidents which equates to over seven...
