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Dartmouth Food Festival returns for 2026!

Dartmouth Food Festival (23rd – 25th October 2026) is well-known as one of the most prestigious food festivals in the country and is always credited with an unrivalled line up of chef talent and a feast of entertainment.

Continuing to build on more than two decades of culinary...

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Zoo keepers get fish to clean their own aquarium

Ingenious aquarists at Living Coasts, Torquay’s coastal zoo and aquarium, have trained strange fish to help clean their tank of a naturally-occurring pest.

Filefish, or leatherjackets, have been introduced into the charity zoo’s large stingray tank to help control an invasive anemone.

Aquarist Tom Fielding: “Aiptasia is a common temperate and tropical sea anemone. It comes in...

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Eden Classic prize is a dream come true for bike-mad Bryan

A super-keen cyclist could not believe his eyes when he read a phone message telling him he had won his dream bike in a prize draw.

Bryan Smith from North Tawton, Devon, was doing a major repair on his six-year-old Specialized Roubaix road bike when he saw that he had won a 2020 version worth £2,600 in a competition promoting the Eden Classic bike ride.

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Plymouth pet rescue adopters’ club needs more people in its ‘pack’

An adopters’ club set up by a Plymouth animal charity to support its ongoing work with unwanted pets is looking for new members to join its ‘pack.’

Woodside Animal Welfare Trust’s Adopters’ Club was started two years ago to enable people who have rehomed a pet from Woodside to help other animals in its care.

For every animal adopted from Woodside at Elfordleigh, new owners...

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Council to provide taxi drivers with health and wellbeing support

East Devon District Council has identified a reduction in the number of licensed taxi drivers over the past four years, which can be attributed to a variety of factors including the decision by a number of taxi drivers each year to retire when the annual renewal of their licences is due.

This decline has been counter balanced by increasing numbers over the same period of new private...

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Freemasons donate £1,385 to North Devon Hospice

This year the Freemasons, as part of their annual support of Hospices throughout the country Assistant Provincial Grand Master of Devonshire W. Bro. Charles Yelland presented a certificate denoting the £1385 given by the Devonshire Freemasons and the Masonic Charitable Foundation to Kate Kilburn of the North Devon Hospice, Barnstaple.

The Masonic Charitable Foundation will give...

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Council to resurface Budleigh car park with innovative plastic waste material

Rolle Mews Car Park, Budleigh Salterton is being resurfaced by East Devon District Council this week using an innovative new material.

Instead of conventional asphalt, an alternative type of surface incorporating non-recyclable plastic waste, in place of a portion of bituminous binder material, will be used.

This product, which is produced by MacRebur, has several advantages...

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eWallets - Safe and secure new payment methods

The way we make and receive payments is evolving and retailers are recognising this. Admittedly, entering our financial information into websites or storing card details on our phones can leave us feeling exposed. However, safe and secure eWallets are using advanced technological systems making digital payments the safest and most convenient option. Let us take a look at electronic payment...

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Woman sexually abused as a child says Together for Childhood will help protect children from harm

A woman who was sexually abused as a child has said a new programme of work to help prevent abuse has the power to change the lives of thousands of children, including many across Plymouth.

Emily has been finding out about how by joining forces with one Plymouth community, Together for Childhood is combatting child sexual abuse as part of an innovative programme that could be rolled...

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Happy holidays on the menu with donation

Children in Plymouth can look forward to “Happy Holiday” fun and a healthy meal this Easter break thanks to funding for a community interest group.

ProActive is raising funds to provide an affordable holiday programme to be based at the Mayflower Academy in North Prospect and the project has just been selected to receive £600 from Persimmon Homes Cornwall’s Community Champions scheme...

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Devon school chef in bid for School Chef of the Year 2020 national title

With all ten of the regional finals now completed, the line up of school chefs who will compete for the much coveted national title of the LACA School Chef of the Year 2020, is now known. The 2020 national final which takes place on Thursday March 5 at Stratford upon Avon College in Warwickshire, is expected to be a fiercely fought cook off.

The competition is the flagship event for...

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