Devon

East Devon District Council (EDDC) are urging all bill-payers to set up a direct debit to pay their council tax. By paying by direct debit will enable the council to pay the £150 energy rebate payment as quickly as possible.

The Government recently announced funding for local authorities to support people with the rising costs of energy. This includes those who already receive...

ouncillors have rubber stamped the next phase of a funding bid to help restore and enhance Stover Park.

Devon County Council’s Cabinet today (Wednesday 9 March) approved the grant bid submission to the National Lottery Heritage Fund for the delivery phase of its “Restoring Stover Park” project.

Devon received just over £341,000 from the National Lottery Heritage Fund (NLHF)...

For the fourth year in a row, The Donkey Sanctuary’s on-site restaurant ‘The Kitchen’ has been awarded a Taste of the West Gold Award.

The venue at the sanctuary in Sidmouth picked up the Gold Awardin the café/tearoom category in the 2022 Taste of the West Hospitality and Retail Awards.

The judges looked at a number of categories, including the quality of service and food,...

National charity and leader in lifesaving and lifeguarding training across the UK and Ireland, the Royal Life Saving Society UK (RLSS UK), is urging people to get summer ready by brushing up on their water safety skills and knowledge.

With over 400 people dying each year in the UK and Ireland from accidental drowning, it’s clear that it’s a topic that needs more attention.

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On a recent visit to St.Luke’s Methodist Church in Buckfastleigh, Peter Keaty, Assistant Head of the Devonshire freemasons accompanied by Reuben Ayres and Walker Lapthorne met the Foodbank Manager Felicity Ferry to present her with a certificate denoting the £4000 grant made to them by the Devonshire Masonic Benevolent Fund together with the Masonic Charitable Fund (MCF).

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Businesses in Plymouth are being warned of a brand new scam where cyber criminals are using very old fashioned methods.

Normally criminals try to hack into a business’s systems through the internet – often by breaking into someone’s email, or looking for weak passwords.

But security researchers have spotted that one criminal gang is now posting out USB drives.

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“Please don’t visit friends and family in our hospitals if you have Covid or other illnesses” – that’s the message from Devon’s NHS, as the number of people in hospital with Covid-19 remains high.

Many of the restrictions brought in to reduce the spread of Covid-19 in the community have come to an end, but people are still required to wear a mask in health settings and are being...

For the last two years, Hoburne Devon Bay holiday park in Paignton has been supporting Devon Air Ambulance as the park’s nominated charity.

Despite covid measures and restrictions on fundraising events, the popular family holiday park has raised more than £14,000 for the much-needed local charity, which responded to 1,900 incidents across the region last year.

Fundraising at...

Volunteers will pack 20,000 bags of seagrass seeds this month to help restore seagrass within Plymouth Sound.

Research shows at least 44 per cent of the UK’s seagrass has been lost since 1936.

This restoration work is part of England’s largest seagrass planting effort under the LIFE Recreation ReMEDIES partnership, led by Natural England.

The partnership’s...

A 63-year-old RAF veteran from Paignton is walking and cycling 200-miles in support of the RAF Benevolent Fund, a charity close to his heart, while undergoing treatment for stage 4 bowel cancer. Terry Butcher served in the RAF from 1976 to 2005 but continues to wear a uniform as a Flight Sergeant with the RAF Air Cadets. Terry was diagnosed with cancer and began chemotherapy and radiotherapy...