Local Dartington community dance group, Movement for Life, is today celebrating after being awarded £10,000 funding from the National Lottery Community Fund. The funding will support the group to deliver creative dance to increase emotional & physical well-being in family, female carer and women’s groups.
Movement for Life is supporting community to re-connect through both in-...
Local band, The Barefoot Bandit, have announced their first stadium show at Blackburn Rovers home ground alongside reggae legends UB40, Aswad and Soul II Soul.
The Bandit will perform on May 29th at Ewood Park Football stadium which holds over 31,000 spectators.
In addition to this announcement, the band have released their exciting crowd funder campaign to help finish their...
Archaeological artefacts recovered from shipwrecks in Plymouth Sound that reveal Plymouth’s links to empire, slavery and indenture have been brought to life through 3D scanning at Fab Lab Plymouth, in a collaboration between Plymouth College of Art’s Smart Citizens Programme, local archaeological team the SHIPS Project and internationally-renowned artist and photographer, Dr Mohini Chandra...
The NHS in Devon has announced the launch of a new health and wellbeing app library for local people, powered by the Organisation for the Review of Care and Health Apps (ORCHA).
Effectively a comparison website, the localised site for Devon allows patients and healthcare professionals to search and download from a wide range of apps, making it quicker and easier for people across...
Essential work will be carried out on the bridge on Monday 21 February and Tuesday 22 February and due to the narrow road width over the bridge it will need to be closed on both days for the safety of public and staff working on site.
The parapet on the Tiverton side of the structure needs to be repaired after being damaged by a vehicle.
The award-winning Devon Work Hubs network has expanded with the opening of three new hubs across the county and expansion of a fourth.
Devon County Council secured funding from the Heart of the South West LEP Getting Building Fund last year, which has now enabled three new Work Hubs to open in Great Torrington, Newton Abbot and Teignmouth. The extension of the Tavistock Enterprise...
A nursery worker from Paignton has celebrated over 20 years of service at a local day nursery and pre-school.
Racheal O’Reilly has spent her career working at the Mama Bear’s Day Nursery and Pre-School at South Devon College in Long Road where she is an Early Years Educator with a Level 3 qualification.
The family-run business, headed up by husband and wife team Tony and Bev...
Buckfast Abbey, in South Devon, has released its exciting new line-up of Concerts and Organ Recitals for 2022. Recognised as a centre of culture and the arts in the South West of England, the Abbey Church is known for its popular series of annual concerts and recitals, which hosts choirs and performers from the local area and further afield.
Shaldon Bridge will be closed during the half-term holiday from Monday 21 to Friday 25 February for repair work.
The work consists of repairs to the bridge’s curtain wall nosing and the further investigation of a defect recently discovered in the bridge’s lifting chamber.
During the closure, maintenance teams will take the opportunity to clean the gullies.
