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The Best Horse Racing Courses in Devon

Horse racing has a long history in Devon; the county is known for open countryside, strong farming roots, and a steady interest in racing. You’ll find both established racecourses and smaller point-to-point tracks that draw local crowds each season.

Some meetings take place at well...

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New community 6-a-side league season starting in Bideford

A new 6 a side league is starting in Bideford – and teams are urged to join now before the last few remaining places are snapped up!

The leagues are already proving popular, and will take place at Bideford College on Monday.

Teams are competing for top prizes, in the Leisure Leagues Prize Draw – which has already seen thousands of pounds with of prizes given away. The top prize...

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Rheanna White from Devon is nominated as 1 of 50 women to inspire a new generation of rugby referees

Local referee Rheanna White from Barnstaple, Devon, was this week nominated by the RFU as the second referee who will join 49 other inspiring female officials at Twickenham this November – all to inspire more women into refereeing.

Rheanna will join fellow referees on the pitch at the England v Japan Autumn International minutes before kick off as part of the nationwide #INSPIRE...

UK Tech Training business teams up with Premier League football star to deliver funded tech training to Somerset and Dorset

BIT Training, has today announced their partnership with ex-Premier League football player Brian Deane to deliver free IT and Cyber Security training, as part of the government-funded Skills Bootcamps initiative.

The scheme is run by Somerset County Council and Dorset County Council, under the Skills for Life programme, and funded by the Department for Education’s National Skills Fund...

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East Devon junior footballers get new kit boost from leading housebuilder

Youngsters at a junior football club in East Devon will be looking sharp for the new season after receiving a grant for new kit from a leading local housebuilder.

Cranbrook United Under 9s have hit the back of the net with £1,000 from the Persimmon Homes South West region.

The funding comes as part of Persimmon’s Community Champions initiative, which sees 64 good causes...

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South West transplant patients take home medals at British Transplant Games

A team of transplant patients from the South West were successful in bringing home a number of medals from the Westfield Health British Transplant Games, held in Leeds at the end of July 2022.

The flagship event for the charity, Transplant Sport, sees teams from hospitals across the UK come together in a four day festival of sport and life. The event attracts around 2,500 transplant...

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Horses to Look out for in 2022/23 Jumps Season

The 2022/23 National Hunt season at Exeter begins in October, with racing going all the way through until April. The Haldon Gold Cup in November is the feature fixture at the Devon racecourse, and it is likely to include several Cheltenham Festival hopefuls.

Here is a look at some horses to look out for ahead of the new jumps season in the UK.

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22 Devon school-age athletes to follow in footsteps of Commonwealth Games champions

Twenty-two athletes from Devon have been selected to compete at the 2022 School Games National Finals , the UK’s biggest multi-sport event for talented young athletes across the Uk from 1-4 September at Loughborough University .

This year over a thousand young athletes at the event hope to follow in the footsteps of Adam Peaty, Katarina Johnson-Thompson and Hannah Cockroft who...

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Devon Handler Pipe Pulling the Strings for Multi-Talented Adagio

There’s an old cliché in sport that to be the best, you have to beat the best.

That was perhaps the logic behind Devon racehorse trainer David Pipe’s decision to field his prized asset, Adagio, against the unbeaten Honeysuckle in two major races during the 2021/22 season. It was not to be for his charge on either occasion, but Pipe would have noticed how well Adagio ran despite...

Teignbridge Trojans scores sponsorship from local housebuilder

Teignbridge Trojans RLFC has secured sponsorship from a local housebuilder and is now hoping to push on and raise awareness of Rugby League in the South West ahead of the new season this summer.

Formed in 2016, the club competes in the South West Men’s League along with others from across Dorset, Devon and Cornwall, and has provided a gateway for players from various Rugby Union...

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McDonald’s Franchisee Sponsors Local Cornwall Amateur Youth Football Club

McDonald’s franchisee, David Wynne, who runs and operates numerous restaurants across the Cornwall and Plymouth area has recently partnered with Charlestown Youth Football Club to help fund kits for the club’s upcoming summer season. David and his restaurants have been supporting grassroots football in the local community as part of McDonald’s Fun Football programme for many years.

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