Building works have started on a new admin facility at North Devon District Hospital in what marks a first step for the Our Future Hospital Programme on site. Our Future Hospital is the Trust’s response to NDDH being included in the national New Hospital Programme as a priority for investment.
Developers joined members of the Our Future Hospital team at the hospital in Barnstaple...
Tor Bridge High has celebrated World Book Day this month (7th March) by putting on a range of crafts, quizzes, games, and competitions!
Years 7, 8 and 9 were able to choose a free World Book Day book from school this week and World Book Day tokens were available to students so that they are able to choose another book for free from venues such as Tesco, Asda, The Works, Sainsbury's...
The humble fruit fly is helping scientists who are working to find a cure for brain tumours.
And the tiny insect, often viewed as a household nuisance, has helped researchers to better understand mechanisms which turn a healthy cell into a tumour cell.
The work is taking place at the Brain Tumour Research Centre of Excellence at the University of Plymouth and is helping us...
A popular North Devon coastal destination has the best ultrafast broadband coverage in the county according to Openreach
More than 280,000 homes and businesses across the county are among the one million in the South West that can now access Full Fibre broadband from dozens of providers using the Openreach network.
To mark the milestone, the UK’s biggest wholesale network...
Aldi is raising pay for store colleagues for the second time this year, extending its position as Devon’s best-paying supermarket.
Aldi Store Assistants and Deputy Store Managers in Devon are set to receive a pay rise of 40p an hour from 1 June, as part of the supermarket’s announcement of its latest investment in its store colleagues across the UK.
Plans are developing for a coastal protection scheme in Seaton that will better protect 41 homes, businesses, and the town’s coastline from erosion.
Construction is planned to begin in 2025. The scheme will involve improving a 400-metre length of existing rock armour along the foot of the cliffs at Seaton Hole Beach, and repairing the existing Check House seawall.
Devon veterans with mobility issues attributable to their service are now able to apply for support from the reinstated Veterans’ Mobility Fund (VMF).
Administration of the life-changing fund was awarded to Help for Heroes and Blesma by the Office for Veterans’ Affairs (OVA) and the Armed Forces Covenan t Trust Fund in September, 2023.
Local bus operator Stagecoach South West announced changes across their regional bus network. Bus timetables across Devon will see improvements to offer customers a more reliable and punctual service.
In addition to providing more robust timetables, some routes will offer more frequent connections and in some areas journeys to new destinations are provided.
National Highways is playing its part in a bid to bring white water-lilies back to the environmentally significant Stover Country Park sitting alongside the A38 in Devon.
Funding from the company’s Designated Funds programme will help Devon County Council to deliver a major scheme to de-silt Stover Lake within the Local Nature Reserve near Newton Abbot, a Site of Special Scientific...
Isuzu UK dealer, Ashburton Motor Works, has agreed to provide Dartmoor National Park (DNP) with three new D-Max pick-ups to add to the park’s growing Isuzu fleet in February 2024. Since 2014, the Isuzu D-Max has been the go-to vehicle for DNP to carry out essential park operations.
The national park has acquired a large collection of D-Max pick-ups over the last 10 years. Most...
