In the past two months, a Devon-based sustainable willow coffin maker has won three prestigious national awards.
Sophia Campbell-Shaw is the founder of Woven Farewells, based in Luppitt in Devon. Woven Farewells offers beautifully unique, hand-crafted willow coffins. Her business model is also a champion for the growing movement towards family-centric funerals. Sophia runs innovative...
Royal Mail has installed a new high-speed Parcel Sortation Machine at its Plymouth Mail Centre, as part of its continued drive to improve efficiency and meet growing demand for next day deliveries. The new machine was unveiled by Rebecca Smith, the MP for South West Devon.
The Mail Centre, which covers the entire PL postcode area across west Devon and east Cornwall, already processes...
A veterans’ self-build project in Plymouth that provides 25 new affordable homes has been completed.
The Stirling House Project, which houses six veterans in need of a new home, is a partnership between LiveWest, Plymouth City Council, and veterans’ charity Alabaré.
The development, based on the site of a former residential care home at Honicknowle Green, has seen a number...
On Sunday 13 October, fundraiser and RAF veteran David Cumberland took part in the Leicester Half Marathon to raise money for the RAF’s leading welfare charity, the RAF Benevolent Fund.
Former Logistics Supplier David Cumberland, 41, from Plymouth, decided to take part in the Leicester Half Marathon to raise money for the charity that supported him when he was in need. David retired...
The Southern Healthcare family of four care homes has become the first group in the country to have achieved four outstanding accreditations for dementia care from a highly regarded organisation which specialises in auditing the care industry.
Southern Healthcare, which owns award-winning homes in Exeter, Plymouth, Dawlish, and Seaton, has won the accolade for its Butterfly and...
Muddy Stilettos, the UK’s No1 women’s lifestyle website outside London, today announces the launch of its 2025 'Top 300 Best Places to Live' . Covering more regions than ever before and with London, Yorkshire and Cheshire being added to the annually anticipated list, it draws upon its unparalleled local knowledge and insight into the 35 most sought-after counties in England, guiding potential...
Over 40 team members and local volunteers recently took part in the Marine Conservation Society’s annual Great British Beach Clean, organised by Ruda and Bideford Bay Holiday Parks in Devon. Held between September 20 - 29th, the nationwide event saw thousands of volunteers across the UK flock to the shores to take part in a week-long coastal clean-up.
THIS AUTUMN people across the South West are being urged to embrace the ups and downs of a unique challenge for Stand Up To Cancer the joint fundraising campaign from Cancer Research UK and Channel 4.
Gym bunnies and sofa surfers alike are being asked to flex their fundraising muscles by signing up to do 100 squats every day throughout November to raise money for life-saving research...
A kind gesture by an East Devon football team means residents of The Donkey Sanctuary in Sidmouth can enjoy continued wellbeing through exercise and play.
Feniton Football Club donated 60 used footballs to the sanctuary after hearing that the resident donkeys often play with footballs as part of their enrichment activities.
Enrichment is incredibly important for the resident...
Our Future Health, the UK’s largest health research programme is opening appointments in 11 new locations in October 2024, with 203 clinics in total across the UK.
Our Future Health mobile clinics will visit car parks in Barton Upon Humber, Brixton, Consett, Driffield, Ellesmere Port, Leigh, Northallerton, Plymouth, Sittingbourne, Torquay and Worksop.
