Devon

CATERed Plymouth's school meals provider has just been accredited as a Living Wage employer.

The Living Wage commitment will see everyone working at CATERed, regardless of whether they are permanent employees or third-party contractors, receive a minimum hourly wage of £8.25. This is significantly higher than the national minimum wage of £6.70 and the new minimum wage premium for over...

This year’s highly anticipated Great Taste award winners have just been announced and Buckfastleigh-based Luscombe Drinks is once again celebrating success. Winning a total of 11 stars at the coveted nationwide awards, which are credited as the world’s largest and most trusted food and drink awards, Luscombe Drinks has now won 58 stars since 2003.

Luscombe Drinks’ Mostly Devon Apple...

This September the Ramblers is getting the South West on its feet with Walk About - its biggest ever free nationwide walking event, offering a walk to suit everyone. But people don’t have to wait to get started. This month (August) the Ramblers has launched a free online tracker that allows people to log their walking activity and make the most of everything the festival has to offer.

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Lawyers across the UK are being urged to raise money for charity by writing wills as part of a national month-long drive.

Legal firms are being asked to sign up to Will Aid Month, which takes place across the country from 1-30November 2016.

The programme relies on solicitors to pledge their time and support for the cause which sees them provide the Will writing service for free...

GRAHAM Carey announced himself to the 2016-17 season with a match-winning performance to inflict Mansfield Town's first defeat of the campaign.

The Irish playmaker scored one goal from a wide direct free-kick that beat everyone and sailed in, before a mesmorising solo effort that effectively put the game to bed long before the half-time interval.

Mansfield had more of the play...

Plymouth Pavilions are thrilled to announce that Kaiser Chiefs will return to the city with a new UK tour in 2017.

Following their performance at Boardmasters last weekend, a sold out Pavilions gig in 2015 and a hit set that blew the lid off MTV Crashes Plymouth back in 2014, the 5 lads from Leeds today announced their first arena tour in two years to include a Plymouth Pavilions gig...

Police are appealing for information after a guinea pig hutch containing two family pet guinea pigs was set alight in an arson attack in St Budeaux, Plymouth.

The attack happened between 12am-1am on Wednesday 17 August 2016 at the Sherwood’s family home on Clearbrook Avenue.

Police are appealing for anyone who may have information about the attack on the family pets, who...

The steep hillsides in the uplands of the UK present access problems when it comes to the control of one particularly difficult to manage plant – bracken. The difficulties associated with operating on steep bracken infested land, particularly for the management of livestock, and the difficulties faced by walkers and other land users increase significantly as it spreads. Bracken spread also...

Following a successful fundraising event on Friday 5th August, which raised an amazing £850, staff from the Outpatient Management Centre at Derriford Hospital are continuing their fundraising efforts in aid of the Gold Dust Appeal.

To raise as much as possible, in preparation for the Gold Dust Superheroes Abseil down Plymouth's iconic Holiday Inn on Sunday 25th September, members of...

British Cycling and Sky are celebrating another successful year of delivering cycling in partnership with the Council.

We teamed up in 2012 and since then the Sky Ride recreational cycling programme has had 21,000 sign-ups, with more than 100 people going on to train as lead riders themselves.

In recognition of the achievements made over the last four years, British Cycling has...