Specsavers stores in Plymouth are offering customers the chance to be part of an environmental initiative by recycling their glasses and contact lenses for free.
The scheme comes after stores teamed up with recycling experts MYgroup to install recycling collection boxes.
Customers at Specsavers Plymouth stores will be able to drop off metal and plastic glasses and sunglasses...
With around 5 million people visiting Devon each summer, the NHS has worked to ensure there are additional services in some tourist hotspots to reduce pressure on our busy emergency departments.
Minor Injuries Units (MIU) and Urgent Treatment Centres (UTC) are located right across the county and are there for people needing urgent medical attention, but not in a life-threatening...
Drake Circus is calling for young people in Plymouth to take the first step in their retail careers by registering for its free training programme, Bright Lights Starting Out in Retail.
The two-week online programme starts on Monday 15th August and aims to give young people in Plymouth access to high quality training, including support with interviews and CV writing, as well as mental...
Appleby Westward, which owns or manages all SPAR stores in the South West, has announced its successful Community Cashback recipients, who have been recognised for their exceptional contributions to their local communities. One of the recipients is Proper Job, a resource centre in Chagford, Devon, which received a grant of £5,000.
Proper Job is a not-for-profit resource centre,...
Honiton Community Spaces have launched a major campaign to raise £325,000 to revitalise a much-loved Honiton community building.
Big plans for the town’s Community Use Building [CUB] have now been revealed – with a dream to transform the site so it can host up to 400 people each week.
Volunteers have now issued a plea to residents to support their fundraising drive, to fix...
Kate Westbrook was the first artist selected by The Brownston Gallery owner Catherine Gillen to hold a solo exhibition ten years ago and so it is very fitting to show her new work Writing the Song as part of the gallery's tenth Anniversary celebrations .
Kate has had a distinguished career both as an artist and as a singer with her husband, international jazz composer and musician, Mike Westbrook . Together they have travelled the world and recently completed a stint at Ronnie Scott's in London but Kate says this new exhibition is more nerve-...
The Brownston Gallery is celebrating it's 10th anniversary this year with a series of special exibitions and Barry Kelly who has been with them from the beginning is one of their most successful young artists.
Barry's new collection of work portrays his love and appreciation of nature, and in particular the healing properties of the ocean. This is reflected in his use of a softer palette of colour, misty pinks and gentle blues, revealing huge pastel skies that seem to go on forever, blurring the line between sky and sea, between the present and the future. Each painting is full of...
Dartmoor National Park Authority has today introduced a temporary ban on open fires and barbecues on all common land within the National Park. The ban has been introduced in response to the prolonged dry weather and the risk wildfires can pose to people and animals, as well as damage to property and the natural environment. People who plan to spend time in the National Park are urged to be...
A teenager from Devon is embarking on a mega fundraising challenge during her schoolsummer holidays to raise money for a Westcountry-based disaster relief charity.
Emily Read, 15 will be paddleboarding 220km along the River Thames next month to raise money for ShelterBox, which specialises in emergency shelter.
The international charity is based in Cornwall and provides...
South West based internet service provider, Jurassic Fibre, today announced the start of their ultrafast broadband network build in Cornwall.
The award-winning broadband company has already rolled out their state-of-the-art network to homes and businesses across Devon, Dorset and Somerset, where many towns and villages had previously struggled with inadequate and unreliable digital...
