Spend an afternoon at the races with family on Sunday 19th July and celebrate the start of the summer holidays with Newton Abbot Racecourse.
Racing starts at 13:45 with gates opening at 11:45. The last race will be at 17:05.
To celebrate the start of the summer holidays, there will also be two pony races after the last race.
The Family Enclosure will also be open for every fixture from now until the end of the summer holidays. With a great view of the course for parents, the Family Enclosure features a number of games to keep the children entertained, including a...
The UK’s number one comedian, Michael McIntyre is set to return to the stage in 2015 with his brand new hotly anticipated UK & Ireland Arena tour, ‘Happy & Glorious’.
Michael’s previous tour Showtime was the biggest selling comedy tour in the world in 2012, playing to over 640,000 people including a record-breaking ten-night residency at London’s O2 Arena matching the pop-...
More homes in Plymouth are getting disabled adaptations, including the conversion of two houses into one for a severely disabled teenager.
The teenager and their family (who do not want to be named), will move into the latest house which has been adapted at Cherry Tree Gardens, Plymouth on Friday 3 July.
Plymouth City Council, Taylor Wimpey and Westward Housing Group had to...
More than half (68%) of the people in Devon – an estimated 651,500 people – currently have, or have had, a family member or a close friend with cancer, reveals Macmillan Cancer Support today1. Earlier this year, Macmillan announced that there are currently 2.5 million people living with cancer in the UK, which is set to rise to 4 million by 20302.
Buglife and other organisations involved in Devon Local Nature Partnership are appealing to Devon's residents to do one simple thing to help bees and other pollinating insects this National Pollinator Week.
Wild bees and other insect pollinators are faced with a perfect storm of pressures which have all led to their decline, these include: a loss of wildflower-rich habitats through the...
The Arb Academy specialises in Forestry and Arboriculture Training qualifications, specialising in high quality Traineeships and Apprenticeships. We are running a 6 week traineeship programme starting on the 27th July at the River Dart for motivated school leavers and job seekers.
The Traineeship is designed to prepare the candidate for a career in Arboriculture, giving them the best...
Mum-of-two Katie Williams has turned the experience of planning her wedding into a successful business, by launching a wedding planning app for local brides-to-be in Devon and Cornwall.
After being made redundant from a career in sales and marketing, Katie decided to go self-employed and took the opportunity to become part of a national franchise to launch the Wedding Partners app in...
A group of 31 children from schools in the American city of Plymouth Massachusetts have been visiting Plymouth this week.
The children represent part of the international choir that has been rehearsing, via the internet, across the waves between Plymouth UK and Plymouth USA. Collectively, there will be over 100 US and UK children singing together, at their very first live concert to...
Nine apprentices from Plymouth City Council have gone head to head with seven other teams from around the country in a bid to be crowned Apprentice Team of the Year 2015 at the Brathay Apprentice Challenge.
The two-day long adventure finale at Brathay Trust’s Windermere headquarters marks the end of six months hard work, involving some of the country’s leading apprentice employers,...
