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Devon has been named one of the UK’s most haunted regions, according to new research by Where The Trade Buys , one of the UK’s leading print suppliers to the hospitality industry.

The study analysed more than 1,300 recorded ghost sightings from The Paranormal Database , revealing the UK’s most haunted hospitality hotspots ahead of Halloween.

Devon has 43 recorded hauntings...

If you walk through Exeter on a Saturday night, you’ll see a stark change straight away. Pubs are quieter and taxi queues that once stretched along the high street are half what they were. Beside this quietness are nearby homes that are alive with light and chatter. People aren’t hibernating. Instead, they’ve found different ways to spend their weekends. Across Devon, more locals are choosing...

Westbank Community Health and Care is embarking on the second stage of its redevelopment of the charity’s Community Allotment at Exminster with the support of Jack’s Patch, part of Otter Garden Centres.

Jack’s Patch, based in Bishopsteignton, has kindly offered to support Westbank in developing its Community Allotment, a strip of land behind the charity’s Healthy Living Centre on Farm...

THE distressing effects of dementia are being highlighted by a Plymouth optician whose mother has developed the condition.

Matthew Rattenbury, an assistant manager and dispensing optician at the Specsavers Plymouth store, organised a special golf fundraiser with his family in tribute to his mother Wendy, who began showing signs of dementia two years ago, aged only 60.

The...