Three schools in Plymouth are celebrating after receiving new laptops and funding to help children learn from home.
LiveWest, the largest housing association in the South West, is supporting the schools by donating refurbished laptops and more than £1,500 in digital grant funding.
Plymouth Mayflower Academy Primary School, Pennycross Primary School and Montpelier Primary...
The UK’s first Food Waste Action Week 2021 (1-7 March) is set to highlight the link between food waste and climate change.
And Devon residents can find practical tips and advice on how to reduce food waste and take part in a food waste challenge via Recycle Devon's social media feeds.
Globally, 30 per cent of man-made CO2e greenhouse gases are created from the production and...
Tavistock Youth Café has been awarded a £1,000 grant from Tesco as part of a scheme to support young people.
The youth café was one of the successful applicants to the Tesco Bags of Help community grant scheme, with a special round of grants being awarded to charities and community groups who work with young people.
Founded in 2005 in response to the lack of youth clubs in...
Retirement can be both an exciting and scary time, and many enter this new stage of life with a desire to relocate. In fact, experts at HeatingForce.co.uk found that 64% of Brits plan to move to a different UK city when they retire.*
Eager to find out which cities in the UK are best for retirement, HeatingForce.co.uk created an index-based point system based off various social and...
A Devon-based company has been named one of the best businesses in rural Britain after winning an Amazon-backed Rural Business Award.
Natural Design Studio from Cullompton received The Triumph Over Adversity Award at the first ever virtual national final of the Rural Business Awards, in association with Amazon.
Natural Design Studio specialise in designing sustainable...
The second phase of Tesco’s Community Cookery School launches this month in Devon to help train community cooks in delivering helpful and practical food education to families in their communities.
The programme, in partnership with Jamie Oliver and the charity FareShare, aims to train 300 community cooks, such as those who operate food banks or charity kitchens, to teach families how...
Following the government’s roadmap announcement that outdoor cinemas can re-open from 17th May, Adventure Cinema is excited to announce a new socially spacious tour, offering guests the chance to enjoy the magic of the movies this spring and beyond.
Stopping at some of the UK’s most scenic spaces, including Saltram House in Plymouth, Torquay Recreation Ground, Newton Abbot Racecourse...
A South West-based nursery group has invested in the latest anti-viral fogging equipment to keep its 24 settings safe.
Mama Bear’s Day Nurseries & Pre-School group, a family-run business operating across Bristol, Somerset and Devon, has introduced fogging machines in all of its nurseries in order to sanitise each room at the end of the day.
People with Covid in Devon, who are over 65 or are clinically extremely vulnerable, are being encouraged to ask their GP about using a potentially life-saving device at home to check their blood oxygen levels are not getting dangerously low.
Under a new NHS scheme called Covid Oximetry at Home, eligible patients can be given a pulse oximeter – a small and simple device that measures...
