Last year, Devon Air Ambulance (DAA) crews attended 333 patients who were suffering a cardiac arrest. This year the charity has so far attended 142 more people whose heart stopped beating. This is the most common reason for their emergency medical team to be called to help.
Earlier this year, the charity launched their ‘Help with all your Heart’ campaign to raise awareness about...
Gittisham Hill House care home, in Devon, is not far from Glastonbury, being a little over an hour’s drive away, so to celebrate the UK’s popular festival starting this June, the home decided to have their own Glastonbury on 22nd of the month.
The Residents at the residential, nursing and dementia care home enjoyed getting dressed up with ribbons round their heads and flowers in...
Following nine years of major conservation work, the National Trust’s ambitious project to save Castle Drogo, one of the country’s most iconic buildings, is complete.
Castle Drogo is the last castle to have been built in Britain, between 1911 and 1931, by the renowned architect Edwin Lutyens. It was built for Julius Drewe, a food retailing magnate, whose dream was to create an...
Cornwall-based home creator, bunnyhomes, has launched a brand new 24 home neighbourhood: Blackberry Lane, in the Cornish village of Kilkhampton.
Just a few miles north of the seaside town of Bude, Kilkhampton is a desirable location, nestled between the Cornwall and Devon border, surrounded by green lands and golden sands.
Blackberry Lane is an exclusive neighbourhood of 34...
Young artists aged 18 and under can now compete for the title of Devon’s Best Young Landscape Artist 2022. Devon CPRE, a South West branch of the countryside charity CPRE, held the competition for the first time last year and was impressed with the quality and quantity of entries from across the county.
The charity is inviting budding young artists to showcase their creativity by...
Three charities based in Devon have received donations of £1,000 each as part of the Benefact Group’s Movement for Good Awards.
For the fourth year running, the Benefact Group is giving away £1million to charities through its Movement for Good awards. Members of the public were invited to nominate causes close to their hearts, with 250 awards of £1,000 available now for donation....
Stagecoach, the country's biggest bus and coach operator, has confirmed that free travel will be available for military and ex-military personnel on all of its bus and tram services on Saturday 25 June for Armed Forces Day, and will also be offered on Sunday 26 June. This is part of Stagecoach's ongoing commitment to support the Armed Forces.
Work to realign an unstable road in Bovey Tracey is set to get underway on Monday 27 June.
A section of Ashburton Road (the C229) in Bovey Tracey has been closed to vehicles since February 2020 following a large landslip on the face of a former quarry.
Geotechnical investigations revealed extensive damage to the highway and raised safety concerns over the stability of the ground...
Jurassic Fibre, a broadband internet network developer, has announced ambitious plans to increase the rollout of its ultrafast fibre network to cover 500,000 homes and businesses across 30 towns and villages in the South West by 2026. The announcement coincided with a visit from The Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak MP to Jurassic Fibre’s Devon headquarters in Honiton.
