The Hideaways Holiday group has announced the launch of Devon Hideaways, a 100+ strong portfolio of cottages spanning the North, East, Central and West Devon, along with South Hams, Torbay and Dartmoor.
Devon Hideaways is the Hideaway Holiday Group's ninth regional brand, and follows the success of its neighbouring brands, Cornwall Hideaways and Dorset Hideaways.
The Adventure Time Activity Club, which operates out of Stoke Fleming Primary School (part of Education South West ) has received a positive report from Ofsted after being inspected last month.
Ofsted inspectors noted that children arrive with big smiles and that all children are kind and respectful to one another. They also stated that staff make sure all children are engaged and...
The year-long trial with the South West Liver Unit at University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust will see 50 patients undergoing assessment and listing for liver transplant. If successful, the service may be expanded to patients living with other liver diseases and who currently are not on the list.
Prehab is a relatively new area of healthcare that focuses on improving the general...
A career in funeral care may not be an obvious choice for everyone, but one family has seen just how inspiring it can be.
Torquay-based Kate Parsons, 48, started working in funeral care almost 10 years ago and is now a Funeral Service Manager for Co-op Funeralcare in the Bristol, Devon and Somerset region. Kate felt inspired to become a Funeral Director since the age of 11, with her...
A local housebuilder, Persimmon South West, has made a donation of £1,000 to the Sherborne Food Bank as part of its Community Champions initiative.
The donation was recently marked by a visit from Rob Clark, Land & Planning Director for Persimmon South West, to the Food Bank's Depot at South Western Business Park.
Rob Clark presented the donation to Sally Baxter, Depot...
A successful Plympton based women-led crafting business has turned 2. To celebrate this milestone EM-MAgination held a party at the Rees Centre in Plympton on Sunday 30th June 2024. The celebrations began with a family crafting session where party hats, party bags and badges were made to celebrate. After this those supporters of EM-MAgination including other local small businesses came...
The 100th anniversary of the Devon County Library Service is being marked this month by Libraries Unlimited, the charity that manages 54 libraries in Devon and Torbay.
The Devon County Library Service was launched in 1924 with the aim of providing a single county-wide service giving all residents free access to books. Before then, many of Devon’s individual scattered community...
The Grand Western Canal Country Park and Stover Country Park have, once again, been recognised as being amongst the best parks in the UK after they received the Green Flag Award .
The award is the international quality mark for parks and green spaces.
And this year marks the 21st consecutive year that Stover Country Park has received the award, and at the Grand Western Canal...
One of Devons favourite campsites Lee Meadow Farm Campsite has partnered up with the cool guys at American School Bus Glamping to site a Big Yellow School Glamping Bus for 2024!
“We wanted to add another twist on our newly refurbished camping and glamping site, and ‘Texas’ from America offers just that” say campsite owners Matt and Trudi.
Pupils and staff at Wynstream Primary School in Exeter, part of Education South West , are celebrating the results of their phonics tests this term.
Phonics is an effective way of teaching children to read, high quality phonics teaching improves literacy levels. The phonics screening check is a test that Year 1 pupils in England are required to take. The check confirms whether pupils...
