The Garden House in Devon is to offer snowdrop lovers across the UK a chance to enjoy one of nature’s most spectacular displays of snowdrops at their first ever Virtual Snowdrop Festival - providing daily treat and a welcome relief from lockdown.
Following the increasing severity of the pandemic, the team had been forced to cancel the world famous Snowdrop Festival, allowing only the...
Tiny Toes Ballet, which holds children’s dance classes in Cornwall and Tavistock, is offering all children free online classes to help support parents and teachers who are home schooling due to lockdown. Its eight-week course of classes combines drama, dance, cookery and more, and is aimed at children aged seven and under.
The Free Lockdown Programme provides online weekly activities...
THREE eager buyers have snapped up new homes at a just launched development in Barnstaple, where Elan Homes has extended the Stamp Duty holiday. Featuring 57 homes in the first phase, Pickards at Larkbear is part of the wider 820-home new neighbourhood taking shape off Old Torrington Road.
Elan released a small number of homes for sale “off plan” in early January and has already...
University Hospitals Plymouth (UHP) has become the first research site in the world to successfully recruit more than 500 volunteers to ENSEMBLE 2, an international Covid-19 vaccine trial, and remains top of the leader board.
The study, which launched in November last year, seeks to recruit up to 30,000 people worldwide in order to test the safety and effectiveness of a new vaccine,...
A man from Devon has reached the final in a national competition to find young adults who have helped in their communities during the 2020 pandemic.
Tom Perkins, 24, was nominated for the Urban Jungle's Heroes 2020 competition by Maddie Burton, who has been friends with Tom since they were at school together.
Maddie said: "My hero is Tom. During 2020, he went above and...
Take extra care on the county’s roads – that’s the message from Devon County Council with Storm Christoph set to hit tomorrow (Wednesday 20 January).
A Yellow Severe Weather Warning has been issued by the Met Office, with heavy persistent rain forecast from the early hours of Wednesday until around midday on Thursday.
Higher ground across the county is most likely to be...
Dartmoor has become a draw for thousands seeking outdoors spaces for their health and well-being during the pandemic, with the much-loved iconic Dartmoor pony a huge draw. But a leading charity has warned their future is at risk unless additional funding is found.
The Dartmoor Pony Heritage Trust (DPHT) is a charity which works to protect the future of true Dartmoor ponies in their...
People across Devon are being urged to look after their sight, with new research showing that eye strain and other sight-related issues have increased significantly since the first pandemic lockdown.
The research finds that 42% of people have noticed their sight deteriorate since March 2020 - almost double the number of people noticing sight deterioration during the first lockdown (...
A series of overnight road closures on the A382 near Newton Abbot will get underway this evening (Monday 18 January) to enable final surfacing and road markings to be completed.
Overnight closures will be in place on Ringslade Road to Whitehills Cross each evening from 7pm-6am, starting tonight (Monday 18 January) and continuing until 6am on Thursday (21 January).
GripHero, the maker of the world’s only static-safe hand-protection and on-the-nozzle dispensers for fuel pumps and fuel bays, has announced that it is offering its dispensers free to forecourts across the globe. The announcement comes as more transmissible variants of Covid-19 have emerged, highlighting the need for the public to be protected from the transmission of coronavirus at high-...
