Lower-income householders across Devon can benefit from free energy efficiency improvements to their home worth thousands of pounds.
Devon County Council has formed a partnership with other councils in the region to offer homeowners and tenants the chance to save on energy bills and lower the emissions of their property.
More than 40 per cent per cent of Devon’s carbon...
With more than 60 places to shop, eat and be merry this Christmas and over 1,270 parking spaces - get planning your perfect festive day out at Drake Circus and The Barcode.
Whether you’re planning some Christmas family fun, a day of Christmas shopping with friends or a winter get together with loved ones – your inspiration starts here.
Plymouth’s Real Ideas serves up an extensive programme including Tim Peake, Christmas crafting and local business-focussed festive markets for one and all
The festive season is in full swing and across both of their beautiful Plymouth venues, the city’s Real Ideas team has been working hard to create a programme of festive events and experiences that will enchant, inspire, educate and charm...
The Argyle Legends, the Former Players Association of Plymouth Argyle Football Club, have raised £10,000 for the sight loss charity Guide Dogs to name a future guide dog puppy, who they met earlier this month.
Golden Retriever pup Legend will live with a volunteer puppy raiser for the first year of his life and learn all the basic obedience that he needs. After that, he’ll be off to...
Jack Gratton, 27, from Bideford in North Devon, has been able to watch and play football independently for the first time thanks to a community donated TGA Breeze mobility scooter. Jack has a rare type of Cerebral Palsy which means he finds speaking, walking and coordination difficult. He has lived with this most of his life but was only diagnosed in his 20’s. He has always loved football and...
In just one year more than 2.2 million doses of the Covid-19 vaccine have been given across Devon, Plymouth and Torbay at 43 vaccine clinic sites and over 160 outreach clinics. Over the last year people have been vaccinated in sports grounds, pharmacies, pubs, hospitals, leisure centres and places of worship.
The most recent published figures show that between the start of the...
A devoted daughter has vowed to keep her promise to fight the incurable cancer that claimed her father’s life by running 100km in just 24 days in his memory.
Paula Summerfield Walters, from Tiverton, lost her father, James Summerfield Surman, to myeloma, an incurable blood cancer back in June 2020.
Since his passing Paula has stayed true to her promise to keep up the good...
PLYMOUTH people can look forward to an explosion of floral colour across Devonport next spring thanks to funding from Tesco.
Pollenize CIC received £1,000 from the supermarket’s Community Grants scheme to buy hundreds of seed packets to give away to residents, with the aim of growing masses of wild flowers at households in the area.
Many of us are familiar with the common birds we see in our Devon gardens and when walking in our local parks and the countryside, but an incredible 245 species of bird regularly occur in the UK. New data published today, reveals that more than a quarter (29%) of these are in serious trouble.
The latest assessment, Birds of Conservation Concern 5 - published today in the Journal...
Devon is expecting another battering from the latest named storm tomorrow (Tuesday 7 December).
Storm Barra is forecast to bring gale force winds, particularly in coastal areas, from 9am tomorrow until 6pm on Wednesday.
The Met Office has issued a Yellow Severe Weather Warning for windy conditions throughout the next couple of days, with winds of up to 80mph in exposed...
