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Help Betty find the purr-fect forever home

Beautiful Betty has been searching for a new home through Blue Cross for over 200 days. This Christmas, the charity is appealing to the public to help find this friendly cat a new purr-fect home.

Betty was admitted to Blue Cross Devon in May and has been patiently waiting for a loving...

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Foot Anstey welcomes new Legal Director to its Developer sector team

National law firm, Foot Anstey LLP has welcomed Phil Parrott as a Legal Director to its Commercial Property team

Phil will be based at Foot Anstey's Exeter office and prior to joining Foot Anstey, Phil worked for Nabarro LLP and Michelmores LLP as well as a period working in-house at Prydis. He has extensive experience in dealing with a variety of real estate centric matters, with...

Are YOU the New Face of Farming?

The Black Farmer and Writtle University College (WUC) are on a crusade to stop the drought in diversity within the food, farming and agricultural industries.

Today they begin a nationwide search to find the future faces of farming. The search is going to take place outside of traditional farming circles to encourage young people from diverse backgrounds to consider farming as a...

UK’s first Blue Carbon Artist in Residence set to open immersive exhibition at the UK’s National Aquarium

A new immersive art exhibit is opening in the National Marine Aquarium on the 8th July 2022. Titled ‘The Seagrass Walk’, the exhibit will be a blue carbon-inspired immersive experience that uses multimedia informed by scientific research to showcase the ocean’s wonder plant, seagrass.

Rosie Sherwood, the UK’s first Blue Carbon Artist in Residence, has been working with people and...

Important Things to Know About a Career in Education

Choosing to pursue a career in education means starting an incredibly rewarding and fulfilling professional path. You will be using your efforts and talents to have a positive impact on the lives of your students, and you might even be able to progress to a point in your career where you are able to have a wider influence on the field of education.

That being said, most people...

Huma Mulji’s ‘Your Tongue in My Mouth’ comes to MIRROR

South West Showcase artist Huma Mulji’s solo show opens on Friday 22 July and runs until Wednesday 14 September 2022

‘Your Tongue in My Mouth’, a solo exhibition of work by South West Showcase artist Huma Mulji , will open to members of the public at MIRROR in Arts University Plymouth on Friday 22 July, with the opening drinks reception on Thursday 21 July from 5pm to 7pm.

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The Mayflower returns to Plymouth

Royal Marines Band Plymouth, Plymouth Pavilions, 30 July 2022

In 2020, 400 years after the sailing of the Mayflower from Plymouth to the New World, Plymouth was due to host numerous events to mark this historic landmark. Unfortunately, the Mayflower commemorations were curtailed by the COVID19 pandemic and most of the planned events were not able to take place. These included a huge outdoor...

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Transforming Exmouth’s Seafront into a collaborative canvas

East Devon District Council and Exmouth artist, Anna Fitzgerald, are collaborating to rejuvenate a section of the Exmouth seafront, the Abode of Love .

The ‘Abode’ forms part of Exmouth's 342-foot-long flood defence and is popular with local residents and tourists who use the bays in various ways from picnics and music practice, to sheltering from the sun.

Exmouth has a...

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Three Devon B&Bs shine in AA B&B Awards

AA Hotel & Hospitality Services has today announced the winners of the AA B&B Awards in a virtual ceremony, recognising the UK’s top B&Bs and the dedicated teams who run them. Now in their 26th year, the AA B&B Awards cover categories including Friendliest B&B, Inn of the Year and Regional Breakfasts of the Year.

In Devon, Highcliffe House in Lynton has won the AA...

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Openreach progressing well with Full Fibre delivery for Connecting Devon and Somerset

Openreach is making good progress with providing Full Fibre broadband connectivity to thousands of people as part of its latest collaboration with Connecting Devon and Somerset (CDS).

More than 2,000 premises in some of the hardest to reach rural areas in the region will receive ultrafast broadband coverage through Openreach’s ongoing Full Fibre rollout for CDS.

Openreach is...

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Cost of living crisis pushes thousands of Devon’s unpaid carers deeper into financial hardship and poverty

Thousands of unpaid family carers across Devon, who were already experiencing financial hardship after having to give up paid work to perform their caring role, are being pushed deeper into debt and poverty, according to Devon Carers. Devon Carers is a service provided by local charity Westbank Community Health and Care, based at Exminster, near Exeter.

Even before the pandemic, a...

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