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Children in Plymouth who have experienced the death of a parent who served in the British Armed Forces are receiving support in their bereavement, helped by a grant from Tesco.

Scotty’s Little Soldiers, the charity for bereaved British Forces children and young people, received £1,500 from the Tesco Community Grant scheme after customers in local stores voted for the charity, to...

People across Devon are being called on to do their bit to ensure that our county remains one of the most beautiful in England by joining Keep Britain Tidy’s ‘Great British Spring Clean’.

Taking part is easy you can join the #BigBagChallenge and make a pledge to pick up and bag as much litter as you can from 17 March – 2 April 2023.

 You can pledge as an individual, a group...

Locals and visitors to Ottery St Mary should spot a little extra colour in the town after Otter Garden Centre planted up some containers for St Saviours bridge.

Group Bedding Plants Manager Richard Lovering and his team brought eight troughs to the bridge, filled with a cheerful mix of polyanthus plants in purple and yellow. They added some red tulips too, so there will be an...

Bespoke Hotels, the UK’s largest independent hotel group, has been appointed to manage the Royal Glen hotel in Sidmouth.

With a history dating back over 300 years, it was circa 1700 that the Royal Glen was built by a Mr King of Bath as a then modest farmhouse, with a dairy, outhouses, a hayloft and a well that still exists at the centre of the house. Later extended and converted into...