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A new course has been launched at Exmouth’s Forest School for teachers who want to add a different dimension to teaching by taking classes outdoors.

‘Learning Beyond the Classroom’ from The Outdoors Group gives teachers and volunteers new skills to use nature and the environment to teach the curriculum outside of the classroom.

Course leader, Ali Taylor explains, “There’s...

Donkeys could play a role in an innovative conservation scheme to reintroduce one of the UK's rarest farmland wildflowers.

More than 20,000 seeds of the small-flowered catchfly have been sown in plots on farmland at the Devon headquarters of international animal welfare charity, The Donkey Sanctuary.

It is hoped that the plant will establish and thrive at the sanctuary. The...

It’s a first for Honiton’s Chilcotts Auctioneers with an ‘off site’ viewing of auction items at a farm in Fremington.

There are around 50 pieces of traditional farm troughs of varying shapes and sizes. Made from granite, they are far too heavy to be moved en masse, so the physical viewing is only available at the vendor’s property, West Yelland Farm.

The troughs are superb...

Scientists involved in a ground-breaking COVID-19 genetic study are urgently calling for people across the West Country who caught the virus but did not require hospital treatment to volunteer to help with their research.

For the past 12 months, a group of NHS doctors and scientists involved in the GenOMICC COVID-19 Study have been trying to find out why some people who had the virus...