The UK’s largest bereavement charity, Cruse Bereavement Care, has received a much needed financial boost from the Department of Health and Social Care to help it respond to an increase in demand for its services due to the pandemic.
The charity, whose Devon branch covers the whole of the county, was awarded funding by the Government in June to provide additional support through its...
Plymouth’s major new museum, gallery and archive has received a welcome boost of £423,000 from Arts Council England’s Culture Recovery Fund.
The Box opened its doors to the public two weeks ago and has received rave reviews and positive feedback ever since, but was originally supposed to open in mid-May.
Although staff and contractors have continued to work hard behind the...
Improvements on the A382 between Drumbridges and Newton Abbot are progressing well.
Traffic has now been switched onto sections of the newly-constructed road so that the existing route can be altered where necessary.
Temporary traffic lights will be in place to ensure this work can be undertaken safely. The lights will be manually operated to reduce queuing, and they will be...
The Garden House, in Buckland Monachorum, Devon, has received a grant from the DCMS Culture Recovery fund to enable it to stabilise its operations post-lockdown and start to rebuild the much loved garden and grounds as a vital Dartmoor visitor attraction.
Almost 450 heritage organisations in England, including The Garden House have been awarded cash from the first round of
East Devon residents on lower incomes who cannot work from home and have lost income as a result of being told to self-isolate by NHS Test and Trace will be able to access a payment of £500 each time they are required to self-isolate.
Recognising that self-isolation is one of the most powerful tools for controlling the transmission of Covid-19, this new Test and Trace Support payment...
Lucy Jewson, founder of the leading ethical and organic children’s clothing and accessory company Frugi, has been honoured for an MBE in the Queen’s Birthday 2020 Honours List for her remarkable services to ethical clothing design.
Lucy and her husband Kurt started Frugi sixteen years ago in their Cornish home when they struggled to find bulkier clothing for their cloth nappied...
The launch of the ambitious “Saving Devon’s Treescapes” project has been marked by the planting of its first trees.
Backed by the National Lottery Heritage Fund, Devon County Council and others, the initiative forms part of Devon’s efforts to address the huge loss of trees as a result of ash dieback. More than 90% of Devon’s native ash trees are expected to be lost due to ash dieback...
The new footbridge replacing the old Alma Bridge in Sidmouth has been officially opened today (Friday 9 October).
Devon County Council’s new 19-metre span bridge and viewing areas have been developed over the past year – 40 metres inland from the site of the original structure.
The historic Alma Bridge, which dated from the early 1900s, was damaged during severe floods in...
A regional co-operative is marking the success of the carrier bag levy five years after it came into force in England on 5 October 2015.
Southern Co-op's customers have cut their use of single use plastic bags by millions whilst also raising more than £1.5m for good causes across the south.
Back in 2015 the independent retailer initially set a goal of reducing single-use...
The government’s proposed new housing formula or ‘algorithm’ will fail to deliver the affordable new homes that rural communities in Devon so desperately need, according to a new analysis from the countryside charity CPRE. Instead, the Government’s sweeping changes to local planning could lead to the worst of all possible worlds – the loss of more precious countryside without delivering the...
