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Businesses, schools and community groups from across Devon have been nominated by their local community to be given a bee brick from RGB Building Supplies so they can encourage solitary bees to outdoor areas.

For every sale over £150 during Solitary Bee Week, which took place between Monday 28th June and Sunday 4th July, RGB donated money to purchase bee bricks from Cornwall-based...

Triumph Motorcycles is launching ‘Ride Out to Help Out’, a campaign to encourage the biking community to visit and nominate small businesses up and down the country that have faced months of closure and uncertainty during the pandemic.

The campaign, which kicks off on 6 September, will celebrate the ride out destinations at the heart of the motorcycling community, from cafés and chip...

As we enjoy the late summer days, far to the north 3000 miles away, Dark-bellied brent geese are preparing for an epic journey to our shores, some of them for the very first time.

These endearing monochromatic birds spend their breeding season on the boggy arctic tundra of eastern Siberia. It’s in this unforgiving environment that they nest and raise their young for the first weeks...

Video and phone appointments held at hospitals across Devon saved patients an estimated 13.5 million miles of travelling; equivalent to circumnavigating the globe 550 times.

The NHS also estimates that, in the 12 months to 23 August 2021, the benefits of running virtual appointments also saved patients more than 277,679 hours in travel time and staying at home led to a reduction of...