Residents living near Alverdiscott in northern Devon, close to the proposed site of the largest solar and BESS scheme in Devon to date - 279 acres that would straddle two planning districts - have formed an action group to fight the scheme, following a presentation by Devon CPRE at a recent community meeting last week. The Bulworthy Solar Action Group met for the first time last week to decide...
Devon County Council has announced today (4 September) that it will be embarking on a seven-week trial of changes to its pothole repair procedures.
At today’s Full Council meeting, councillors heard that a pilot will get underway from Monday 15 September in parts of Barnstaple as well as west Devon areas of Hatherleigh, Chagford and North Tawton.
Residents in the historic rural settlement of Westleigh, near Instow in North Devon, are holding their own traffic survey this week to gather evidence with which to oppose an outline planning application for nine new houses on a site they believe is highly unsuitable for numerous reasons.
The application for outline planning permission for a small estate of nine houses just outside...
Visitors can explore the spectacular landscapes of North Devon this May as the National Trust hosts its week-long Walking Festival from 12 - 18 May. Celebrating National Walking Month, the festival will offer a diverse range of routes, stretching from the historic East Titchberry farm in Hartland to the dramatic Lorna Doone Valley on Exmoor.
Devon County Council (DCC) will propose to Government that a proportion of a recent road safety funding award for a North Devon Road be used to deploy the latest in AI camera technology to help save lives.
In March DCC learned it had been awarded £5,040,000 from the Department for Transport’s (DfT) Safer Roads Fund (SRF) to deliver safety improvements on the A361 in North Devon...
A memorial service took place earlier this week to remember murdered North Devon police officer PC Walter Creech.
The constable was killed on 29 July 1883 in Georgeham village, near Croyde, while attending a disturbance at the Kings Arms public house. He was stabbed to death. PC Creech is buried in the churchyard in Georgeham and the event was attended by around 30 people from the...
If you’d headed into the woods near Lee Bay on the last weekend of October 2023, you’d have been confronted with a rather peculiar sight … wolves, hunters and Little Red Riding Hood walking and running through the wilds, all in the name of theatre!
This was, of course, the inimitable Burn The Curtain Theatre Company presenting ‘The Company of Wolves’ as part of Beaford Art’s rural...
North Devon—March 15, 2024— The Warrior Women Project, a Community Interest Company based in North Devon, is delighted to introduce an empowering new boxing workshop series, 'Find Your Inner Warrior,' aimed at fostering personal growth and empowerment among women through non-contact boxing.
Scheduled to kick off on Friday, May 31st, and running through July 5th, the 'Find Your Inner...
To celebrate International Women’s Day 2024 we are sharing the stories of seven nurses from Litchdon Medical Practice in North Devon who between them have been working for the NHS for over 250 years.
We asked them about their career and what their hopes are for the future of the NHS.
Glenys McCarthy: “I joined the NHS in March 1981 to start my nurse training, so have been in...
A large-scale project to create a wilder, woodier and wetter landscape is underway in north Devon with the National Trust planting over 100,000 trees this winter to re-establish approximately 50 hectares (123 acres) of temperate rainforest, one of the UK’s most endangered habitats, and other wooded habitats.
The planting will take place across three sites, with 50,000 trees to be...
