Devon

The UK’s leading marine charity, the Marine Conservation Society (MCS), is looking for volunteers to register for a trip to the beach!

There’s no doubt that being by the sea makes us feel better, and the Great British Beach Clean (16th- 19th September) isn’t just a good day out for people who love the coast – it benefits the beach too.

The Great British Beach Clean is the only...

Rural crime cost the South West £6.1m in 2015, up from £5.9m in 2014 – despite remaining broadly static at a national level. The figures form part of NFU Mutual’s annual Rural Crime Report, published on 1 August, revealing that the cost of rural crime to the UK economy has now reached £42.5 million a year.

According to the leading rural insurer, the items most commonly targeted by...

Friends have rallied around after blind lawn bowls player Steve Cook had given up hope of competing in next year’s Visually Impaired World Bowls Championships in South Africa when he was selected to represent England but was told he’d have to pay all his costs – and that of his guide.

Devonport-born Steve, who now lives in Saltash, has been national champion three times in the past six...

Fun for all the family is assured at the 39th Dartmoor Folk Festival, all at modest prices or free-of-charge.

The festival, on Friday, Saturday and Sunday, August 5, 6 and 7, will take place in the foothills of Dartmoor at South Zeal, near Okehampton.

Friday, August 5, the date the 39th festival opens, would have been, co-incidentally, the festival founder, the late Bob Cann's...

A number of supermarkets are recalling own-branded chilled yoghurt products, supplied by Yeo Valley, as they possibly contain pieces of rubber.

This means the products are a possible risk to health.

The affected products have been supplied to the following UK retailers:

ASDA Co-operative Sainsbury Tesco Waitrose

The supermarkets are asking customers to return...

Four men are in police custody on suspicion of taking a vehicle without consent in Plymouth.

Police received a number of reports in the early hours of this morning (Monday 1 August) of what was thought to be gunfire in the Plympton area of Plymouth.

Police also received calls from the public claiming that youths were letting off firecrackers in the area.

Police and the...

The CATERed Big Summer Food Tour is back! After the huge success of 2015 the CATERed team are delighted to be able to hand out delicious, healthy free lunches once again.

Ed’s Big Summer Food Tour Two will help make sure that some children who would normally receive free school meals are not missing out during the long summer holiday.

Providing extra meals during school...

A lynx that escaped from Dartmoor Zoo in Devon has been captured - after more than three weeks on the run.

The Carpathian lynx, the size of a large domestic cat, was found after walking into a humane trap and is now back at the zoo.

Zoo owner Ben Mee told BBC Radio Devon it was "a huge relief" to have got the animal back.

He said that they had been "living in the hope"...

Visitors to the North Devon Show on Wednesday (3 August) will be greeted with lots of licks as homeless hounds from Dogs Trust’s Ilfracombe Rehoming Centre will be there, hoping to find their forever homes.

Experts will also be on hand to offer advice on finding your perfect dog and to talk about the various opportunities to support the charity.

Dogmobile Assistant Manager,...

The Boringdon Arms on Boringdon Terrace in Turnchapel, Plymouth has re-opened following a £180,000 investment from Pub Company Punch and Publicans, Sue and Greg Foxwell.

Sue and Greg have used the Boringdon Arms for the last eighteen years and have been running pubs in Cornwall for the past eight. They finally took over the Boringdon in April this year and it re-opened after the...