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Where to Begin when Buying a Property for the First Time

Buying your first home is an exciting experience. Once you’re all moved in, you get to make the place your own. No landlords to check with first. No one to stop you from hanging shelves where you want them or painting the walls the colour you want them to be.

However, there’s a lot to...

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Welcome return for Budleigh Music Festival

Festival returns with a week-long programme of live music

Budleigh Music Festival makes a welcome return this year from 9 - 17 July with a week-long programme of live music to be held in the town.

A jam-packed programme of events is planned for July, with extraordinary saxophonist, Jess Gillam, headlining with her own ensemble band. Since her previous appearance at Budleigh Festival...

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Types of sports betting

Sports betting happens more often than one can imagine. People predict the winning and losing sides of a particular sport and place a decent wage in simple terms. The one with the correct prediction usually takes home all the wager in the pool.

“Sports betting is an emotion. The thrill that it packs along is unthinkable. Every move made by a team or an athlete brings different...

5 ideas to inspire your next renovation or DIY project

In Spring, it's not rare to see an increase in home renovation projects, whether that's larger undertakings like home extensions or a small room refresh. It's the perfect season for renewal, and the nicer weather usually means that outdoor projects can be carried out smoothly.

If you're looking for inspiration on renovation projects you can complete this year, in this post, I'll...

Oz Clarke OBE To Host Food Drink Devon 2021 Awards

Oz Clarke OBE, one of the world’s leading wine experts, is to host this year’s prestigious Food Drink Devon Awards. Celebrated for having one of the finest palates of anyone writing about wine today, Food Drink Devon is delighted to welcome Oz to their glittering black tie awards’ ceremony on Monday 4th October, during which Oz will have the honour of announcing the winners. Entries to the...

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How a grop of young people are tackling period poverty

Free self-care packs and survey launched to tackle stigma

A group of young people are tackling period poverty by giving 12-19-year-olds the chance to tell decision-makers what a world where everyone can Be Period Proud looks like. They’re also providing free self-care packs to those who need them.

The group is made up of volunteers at Bolton-based charity Youth Leads UK who want to...

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Bensons turns preloved beds into £7.1 million for British Heart Foundation

Free collection service for unwanted beds and furniture helps save lives

Finding new homes for preloved beds and bedroom furniture has helped to save lives by raising more than £7.1 million for the British Heart Foundation thanks to customers of Bensons for Beds.

Bensons customers can donate unwanted bed frames, bases, mattresses and bedroom furniture to the British Heart Foundation...

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RuPaul’s Drag Race UK: The Official Series Two tour gets even bigger!

More dates added to the UK's biggest ever Drag Race tour with an extra date for Plymouth

Drag Royalty will Ru-Turn in 2022 for the UK’s biggest ever Drag Race tour and the original 19-date tour has now been extended to 41 dates as shows continue to sell out across the country.

Join the queens of RuPaul’s Drag Race UK for two evenings of endless eleganza extravaganza as this brand-new...

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Drake Circus Extends Support For Local Charities

Drake Circus has announced that its popular giant giving box, originally installed for Christmas, will now be a permanent feature at the centre in a bid to help raise even more funds for its four charity partners, Macmillan Cancer Support, Andy’s Man Club, Plymouth Domestic Abuse Services and Woodside Animal Welfare Trust.

Located at its Cornwall Street entrance, visitors can use...

Devon Air Ambulance begins work to convert former St Marychurch pub

The Snooty Fox is being converted into a new charity shop

Life saving charity, Devon Air Ambulance (DAA) has recently taken ownership of a lease for the premises previously trading as The Snooty Fox pub in St. Marychurch. Works are about to commence to convert the property into a new charity shop bringing the total number of DAA high street shops to 19.

Following over a century long...

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Yarde Farm Ice Cream scoops a major industry award

Yarde Farm manufacture premium dairy ice cream and sorbets

Plymouth-based Yarde Farm Ice Cream has won a major accolade at the prestigious British Frozen Food Federation 2020 Annual Frozen Food Awards. Its Blackcurrant & Clotted Cream Ice Cream has scooped the award for the Best New Dessert/Ice Cream/Confectionery Product.

The brand produces premium ice cream and specialises in...

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