South West Business Council have announced this year’s regional recipients of the prestigious Queen’s Awards for Enterprise.
The Queen's Awards for Enterprise is an awards programme for British businesses and other organisations who excel in one of four categories: International trade, innovation, sustainable development or promoting opportunity (through social mobility).
For the last two years, Hoburne Devon Bay holiday park in Paignton has been supporting Devon Air Ambulance as the park’s nominated charity.
Despite covid measures and restrictions on fundraising events, the popular family holiday park has raised more than £14,000 for the much-needed local charity, which responded to 1,900 incidents across the region last year.
A nursery worker from Paignton has celebrated over 20 years of service at a local day nursery and pre-school.
Racheal O’Reilly has spent her career working at the Mama Bear’s Day Nursery and Pre-School at South Devon College in Long Road where she is an Early Years Educator with a Level 3 qualification.
The family-run business, headed up by husband and wife team Tony and Bev...
Back in October, Woods Bryce Baker, the Experts in Property on Torquay Road in Preston, launched a hedgehog-themed colouring competition for pupils of Oldway Primary School, to help raise awareness of the hedgehog’s plight for survival in the UK.
The competition attracted around 50 entries, the pictures all beautifully coloured by the children, aged between four and 10.
The family of a 10-year-old from Paignton, Devon, living with life-long effects following her diagnosis with a brain tumour, is working with the charity Brain Tumour Research to share their story of hope and heartbreak this Childhood Cancer Awareness Month.
Brain tumours kill more children than leukaemia
One in three children who die of cancer are killed by a brain
Food delivery company Deliveroo has announced its early launch in Paignton. This means that locals can now order food from a range of restaurants and grocery retailers in the local area.
Deliveroo is an app and website that enables Brits to check out the very best local food in their area. The British company has seen great success and is now available in 12 different markets across...
A campaigner from Paignton who spent the weekend campaigning in Cornwall during the G7 Summit, returns home with hopeful message - urging other local people to act.
Lilly Nattrass, 20, spent the weekend in Falmouth, as part of a group of 18 young people from overseas development charity CAFOD, calling for world leaders to take urgent action on vaccine fairness, the climate emergency...
Deliveroo opens its service for riders and drivers ahead of Paignton launch
Deliveroo, the UK’s leading food delivery company , is on the look-out for riders in Paignton, where the service is due to launch in the next couple of months.
Deliveroo is looking to sign-up new riders to deliver food from restaurants and grocery partners across the town to customers.
A brand new housing development in South Devon will include a newly renovated home for owls and bats and follows extensive measures to protect a pair of rare cirl buntings at the site.
Construction has begun at Berry Acres , just outside Paignton, where Barratt Homes is building 187 much needed new homes. Steps taken by the five-star builder to protect local wildlife will result in...
The three South West zoos run by regional conservation charity Wild Planet Trust have a defiant message for coronavirus: “It’s business as usual”.
Staff and volunteers are prepared for the impact of coronavirus, but at this time the charity zoos remain open. Zoo spokesperson Phil Knowling said: “We’re monitoring the situation closely and will naturally continue to follow the advice of...
