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Inaugural Plymouth boating festival makes a splash

Glorious sunshine and a packed schedule of maritime fun helped make the inaugural Plymouth Boat Fest a huge success, as thousands of visitors gathered at Plymouth Yacht Haven; the city’s largest and busiest marina, to celebrate the region’s rich marine heritage and industry...

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Volunteer with Dartmoor pony charity and enjoy the great outdoors

The Dartmoor Pony Heritage Trust is looking for volunteers to help support its work securing the future of the native Dartmoor ponies and is hosting a Volunteers Open Morning which will take place on Saturday November 19 at its Parke, Bovey Tracey headquarters.

The charity was created to work with the pony keepers on Dartmoor to protect and preserve the traditional type of native...

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Kilmington Neighbourhood Plan formally ‘made’, helping to shape area for next decade

Plans which will help shape developments in Kilmington for the next decade have been formally ‘made’.

It comes following six years of hard work by Kilmington Parish Council and local community volunteers.

The Kilmington Neighbourhood Plan, which received overwhelming support at a recent local referendum, has been formally ‘made’ by East Devon District Council (EDDC). This...

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Totnes marine tech firm appoints new Innovation and Product Manager

Totnes-based world leading marine technology company Valeport has expanded its senior team with the appointment of Iain Slade as Innovation and Product Manager. Iain joins the independent, family owned business that exports 80% of its Devon-made technology to a world-wide customer base, from a position at the multi-national Geo-data specialist company, Fugro.

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Hat trick of legal panel wins for Foot Anstey's Developer sector

The Developer sector team at Foot Anstey LLP, has been appointed to three housing association legal panels in the last six months.

In November 2022, The Hyde Group announced it had appointed Foot Anstey to its Legal Services Framework for a four-year period, specifically to work and advise on Lot 5b, which covers Development, Construction and General Property services.

The Hyde...

Devon green-tech helps Breedon GB Materials cut aggressive driving, fleet carbon emissions and vehicle idling

Lightfoot’s carbon saving, real-time van driver coaching technology set to reduce Breedon’s CO2 emissions by 1,651 tonnes over 5 years

The GB materials division of Breedon, which specialises in aggregates and downstream products including asphalt, ready-mixed concrete, and specialist building products, has succeeded in dramatically reducing instances of aggressive...

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Devon schoolboy cycles 75 miles for disaster relief charity

A seven-year-old boy from North Devon desperate to help people affected by the war in Ukraine has cycled more than 75 miles to raise funds for the Cornwall-based disaster relief charity ShelterBox.

Arthur Bix set his heart on raising money to help people who fled their homes, or had them damaged, and decided any donations would be split between ShelterBox and his primary school....

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Stagecoach passengers set to benefit from UK's largest bus order during 2022

Stagecoach passengers are set to benefit from a multi-million pound investment in 200 new low-emission double decker buses, which will be introduced across the country during 2023. It represents the largest single order placed in the UK bus industry this year.

Passengers in towns and cities across the UK will see the new buses start to be delivered from March 2023. The 200 buses will...

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Safety precaution lane closure on Shaldon Bridge

A lane closure has been introduced on Shaldon Bridge as a precautionary safety measure.

It follows a routine inspection by Devon County Council's bridge engineers yesterday (Thursday 10 November) which discovered scour (erosion) of several piers supporting the Grade Two Listed structure. This in itself isn’t a concern, provided the piles that are contained within the large columns...

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Devon centurion Frank set to join millions in Remembrance Sunday commemorations

A Second World War veteran from Yelverton who turned 100 this year will pay his own special respects to our fallen heroes as part of Remembrance Sunday.

Frank Greep will watch the events on TV as the nation remembers the service and sacrifice of all of those that have defended our freedoms and protected our way of life.

Frank celebrated his 100th birthday surrounded by...

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Lifeworks Charity to receive donations from New Lion Brewery Community

New Lion Brewery, a community owned brewery with a taproom at Meadowbrook in Dartington, are donating a percentage of the sales from their new community beer, ‘Local Hero’, to local charity Lifeworks . The beer is brewed each year by the company, and a donation to a local organisation or charity is made from the sales. The beer is brewed from hops supplied by The New Lion Brewery members....

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