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Gender reveal at Butterfly Lodge

Residents cheer for Chloe's baby gender reveal

A mum-to-be has honoured the elderly people she helps care for in Plymouth by involving them in the gender reveal for the baby she is expecting in December.

Chloe Bryant, 26, works as a kitchen assistant at Butterfly Lodge Nursing Home in St Budeaux, an award-winning nursing home for...

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Aldi calls on children in Devon to design a poster for recycle week

To mark Recycle Week (14th-20th October), Aldi is calling on children in Devon to design a poster to encourage people to recycle.

Britain’s fourth-largest supermarket is inviting children to submit their designs for the chance to win a £250 Aldi voucher for their family.

The entries will be judged by a panel of Aldi’s sustainability experts, with the three winning designs...

UK not doing enough to avert food crisis

As food price inflation hits 40-year high, industry figures gather at Westminster to call for immediate action to back homegrown UK food security plan

Calls from the UK’s farming and food production heartland are being made for the Government to take decisive action to stop empty supermarket shelves becoming a regular feature of daily life.

An increasing dependence on global...

Stagecoach South West introduces timetable changes

This Autumn local bus operator Stagecoach South West are introducing changes to some bus services within the region.

The changes, largely from Sunday 3rd November 2024, include some reliability and punctuality improvements as well as new tendered services in partnership with Devon County Council. Night buses also return in North Devon and Torbay for the festive period from the end of...

Devon hotel wins top HR award for approach to wellbeing

A boutique hotel in Devon has landed a national award for the way it looks after its workforce – including a scientific approach that aims to promote happy chemicals.

The Eden Hotel Collection – which runs five-star Bovey Castle on Dartmoor – collected the Excellence in Reward & Recognition Award at the Annual Awards for Excellence in HR, which is organised by the association HR...

East Devon District Council’s Countryside Team Tackles Loneliness Through Partnership with Age UK Devon

The East Devon District Council (EDDC) Countryside Team has partnered with Age UK Devon to offer fortnightly sessions designed to combat loneliness and isolation among older adults through connection with nature.

Following the Covid-19 pandemic, the Seaton Wetlands Activity Club, a partnership between EDDC and Age UK, provides local residents over the age of 50 with a varied...

Redrow South West is giving away pumpkins at some of its developments

Fang-tastic free pumpkins available in Tiverton this month

A housebuilder in Tiverton, Devon, is giving away free pumpkins – and this is how the public can grab theirs!

With the countdown to Halloween now on, Redrow South West is inviting local house hunters to visit its Blundell’s Grange development, in Tiverton, between Friday 18th October and Wednesday 31st October, to collect their spook-tacular freebie.

A limited number of...

Worldclass Angel's mega singathon for dementia

A singer whose performance was described as ‘worldclass’ and ‘breathtaking’ by judges who named her as winner of Germany’s version of ‘Britain’s Got Talent’ will be doing a five-hour singathon at The Dolphin in Plymouth on 1 November as a fundraiser for the local dementia care home where she now works.

Angel Flukes, who originally came from Saltash and attended Plymouth’s City College...

Dachshund cross Nellie Barker in Halloween outfit

Halloween kicks off early for sausage dogs at Coldharbour Field Kitchen

Ottery St Mary will be experiencing spookiness in the cutest possible way when Coldharbour hosts its ‘Spooky Sausage Saturday’ on October 26.

After the success of the inaugural sausage get together in August, the Field Kitchen is once again throwing its doors - and paddock - open to dinky Dachshunds and their owners. But this time there’s a seasonal twist.

Sausage owner and co-...

Southwest Roadshow BUS

A successful week of bringing careers advice direct to local Southwest communities

The National Careers Service Southwest Bus Roadshow was a resounding success, making careers advice accessible to everyone by bringing expert guidance directly to the heart of local communities.

From Monday, 30th September to Friday, 4th October, the roadshow travelled to five key locations—Bristol, Salisbury, Exeter, Bournemouth, and Truro—offering free, professional careers advice to...

The Wilds in Portugal

Devon’s Sarah Pearse celebrates ‘Wild’ success with 1.5 million book sales

Torquay-based author Sarah Pearse has achieved an incredible milestone, with her detective Elin Warner trilogy surpassing 1.5 million in sales.

Her third book, The Wilds was published in hardback earlier in the summer to great acclaim, helping drive sales of the first two books, The Sanatorium and The Retreat.

Sarah says “It's thrilling to reach such a significant sales...

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