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The South West Sardine Festival Comes To Brixham Harbour

With Matt Tebbutt, Mark Hix, Nieves Barragán Mohacho and more behind the grill, Britain's most exciting free food festival is almost here.

With one week to go, the South West Sardine Festival is gearing up to take over Brixham Harbour on Sunday 9th August — and the buzz is...

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REVEALED: The UK city most likely to survive a zombie apocalypse

Wind farms, electric vehicle chargers and recycling centres are just a few ways the UK has learned to be more sustainable and benefit society at the same time. But which UK city would be most successful if left to their own devices?

Based on the environmental factors and number of self-sustaining features in the most populated UK cities*, such as air quality and farming areas,...

New Year, new fundraiser for Devon Air Ambulance

2021 is already looking brighter at Devon Air Ambulance (DAA) as new and exciting fundraising plans are already in motion.

Last year, shortly after the cancellation of many of their traditional events, the team at DAA found that lots of their supporters were still eager to help and raise as much money as they could to help bolster the charity’s loss of funds due to Covid-19....

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Time to park the bus! Watch the moment a Devon bus driver wins £45,000 BMW plus £10,000 in cash

Ding-ding! Here’s the moment a Devon bus driver wins a £45,000 set of wheels and £10,000 in cash from online competition company BOTB .

Matthew Hector, 24, from Exeter, was just about to start his shift when BOTB’s Christian Williams video-called him to tell him he’d scooped a brand-new modified Motech BMW M135i xDrive.

“Am I dreaming?” the father-of-four asked as he picked...

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Work begins on new homes in South Brent

Work has started to build 40 affordable homes in South Brent.

Leading partnerships business, Vistry Partnerships, have joined forces once again with the South West’s largest housing provider, LiveWest to tackle the region’s housing shortage with this high-quality development which will be delivered as affordable housing.

The new development will deliver 25 homes for...

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Devon to launch community testing programme

Devon County Council is working with partners to ensure that rapid ’30 minute’ community testing for people without Covid-19 symptoms will soon be available across Devon.

It follows the Government announcement on January 10 that it is expanding asymptomatic community testing across the UK.

Approximately one in three people who have coronavirus do not display symptoms....

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Advice to "think twice" before leaving home

Devon’s Director of Public Health, Steve Brown, has called on us all to be extra vigilant in following the Government’s COVID-19 lockdown rules, and to “think twice” before we leave our homes.

This follows a stark warning from the Chief Medical Officer, Professor Chris Whitty, that the next few weeks will be “the worst” of the pandemic for the NHS, and that the UK will go through the...

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400 year old travelling chest emerges at auction

A rare late 17th century brass-studded leather chest from a famed Devonian manor has turned up at auction in Wiltshire, where it is expected to make up to £5,000.

Made by Charles II’s own cabinet maker, Richard Pigg Junior, the metre-wide chest was illustrated in a 1950 edition of Country Life which detailed the interior of Knightstone Manor near Ottery St Mary. At the time,...

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Our Space Launches Inspiring Collection of Digital Creative Writing

Theatre Royal Plymouth’s Our Space project members are launching a new digital collection of creative writing on Wednesday 13 January.

In March 2020 as the world ground to a halt, the Our Space programme transitioned, like so many, to an online existence, as they sought to stay connected and creative in lockdown.

They experimented with many kinds of games and exercises along...

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All Saints Academy joins the Ted Wragg Trust

All Saints Church of England Academy, Plymouth has become the latest school to join the Ted Wragg Trust.

It is the third Plymouth school to join the Trust, which was formed with the aim of creating an outstanding educational experience and to improve life chances for all children. The addition of All Saints Academy will strengthen the opportunities and partnerships across the Trust and...

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Children's Hospice South West Celebrate 30th Anniversary

Children’s Hospice South West (CHSW) is celebrating its 30th anniversary in 2021 …and everyone is welcome to join the party!

During the last three decades, the charity has provided a safe haven of care, support and friendship for thousands of local families with a seriously ill child. And in its 30th year, supporters are being asked to help it create more cherished memories for many...

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