Local News

Group of people with a competition winning scarecrow

Scarecrow winner announced – and it’s all about otters!

South West gardening business Otter Garden Centres is delighted to announce the winner of its ‘Make a Scarecrow’ competition.

Laura Gaiger from West Hill was awarded the top spot for her characterful scarecrow, which she named Otto.

Laura, who is deaf and partially sighted, was supported in her creative efforts by Gayle McGoldrick from charity Sense, which provides services for...

Colebrook Transporters Director, Sophie Wanless with Ross Hyde of Ignition

Colebrook Transporters Drives Forward with Ignition

A Plymouth-based company specialising in campervan conversions and vehicle repairs, has installed and registered a new MOT station on site, with help from asset finance provider, Ignition.

Colebrook Transporters has been established, and thriving, as an expert in campervan conversions and repairs since 2013, and until now has partly outsourced MOT services by providing its own...

£30,000 on offer for North Devon charities and groups

Parkdean Resorts, the UK’s leading holiday park operator and owner of Ruda Holiday Park, is calling on local charities and community groups in Georgeham Parish to get in touch with ideas on how to spend their pot of £30,000 allocated for community projects in 2023.

Through a match-funding agreement with Croyde Area Residents Association (CARA), over £78,000 has already been donated...

New hospital laundry system could help phase out single-use PPE

Circular economy experts have made it easier for hospitals to use reusable forms of PPE with the development of a new ‘modular laundry system’.

St Michael’s Hospital in Hayle, Cornwall, is the first to process its reusable facemasks, surgical gowns, operating theatre drapes and other PPE items through the new laundry system, which is located in the Newham business district in Truro...

Have your say on county council proposals to take on powers that could ease traffic congestion

Devon residents can have their say on county council proposals to take on new powers to enforce ‘moving traffic offences’ in Devon by filling in a short on-line questionnaire.

The scheme, which could come into force next March, would improve road safety, reduce congestion, increase the reliability of public transport and improve air quality on some of the county’s busiest roads....

Highways teams thanked for swift clear-up after storm

Storm Antoni left Devon's highways teams with an extensive clear-up operation over the weekend.

Strong winds of up to 50mph kept teams busy with call outs to more than 50 incidents of trees or branches down which were either blocking or partially blocking roads and Councillor Stuart Hughes, Devon County Council Cabinet Member for Highway Management, has thanked staff for their...

“Gran… He’s talking French again!”

This is the story of my Grandfather, who was born in Exmouth, in Devon in 1898. He was the ninth child of twelve of William Henry Holman, a Senior Pilot in Exmouth Docks. Which was then a busy port in the South West of England, he grew up in those years at the end of the Empire and of sailing ships before modern transport arrived. Anecdotes of his youth include the arrival of one of the first...

Devon explorer to attempt the longest solo unsupported crossing of Antarctica

Devon’s Sam Cox has this week launched his campaign to complete a world record-breaking solo unsupported crossing of Antarctica.

From his home in Torquay, Sam will be travelling to Antarctica this November for the start of a journey that's expected to take two months, and cover over 2000 kilometres of unforgiving Antarctic tundra.

The adventure is set to smash the existing...

Plymouth Oddfellows provide supplies for Woodside Animal Welfare Trust

Plymouth’s ‘Pride of the West with St. Andrew’s Lodge’ of the Plymouth and Truro District Oddfellows has recently supported the Woodside Animal Welfare Trust and Sanctuary which is based in Plympton.

In arranging for the local animal welfare charity to be supplied with a wide selection of foodstuffs and treatments, Bro. Michael O’Leary, Noble Grand – in effect Chair – of the Plymouth...

advert, hotel room, hotel front and beach in Icmeler, turkey
Family Law Company - Specialists have an advantage, the same is true in family law.