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Butterfly Lodge resident Audrey with Dave The Lone Piper

Burns Night - Och Aye The Noo!

Residents at Butterfly Lodge in Plymouth celebrated Burn’s Night with a busy programme of activities that brought a glow to the home despite the miserable weather.

Deputy manager Sarah McCaffrey said: “We started the day watching a documentary about Scotland as a bit of escapism and all...

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Westbank launches Christmas campaigns to support the community

The Devon health and wellbeing charity Westbank Community Health and Care has launched three Christmas campaigns to support those who are lonely or who may be struggling financially or emotionally this Christmas.

Throughout December, members of the public are encouraged to donate to the charity as an alternative way of giving and to make their season’s greetings go further by helping...

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South Devon College encourage more engineering and manufacturing companies to take on apprentices

21-year-old Jack Faulkner says he spent his childhood taking electronic items apart and then not being able to put them back together again.

Fast forward a few years and Jack says he’s now working in the perfect place surrounded by electronics.

Jack is an engineering technician degree apprentice at Bay Photonics, a high-tech engineering company in Paignton. In his fourth year...

Biodiversity wins in Devon

Little Green Change is celebrating the biodiversity improvements in Devon in 2025 carried out in conjunction with primary and secondary schools across the county. Their Biodiversity in Schools Project provides a range of free environmental education assemblies and school ground biodiversity improvements to state-funded schools, thanks to funding from The Norman Family Trust, the Nineveh...

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Devon Ladies Over 75's Tennis Team Wins National County Cup Title

Devon Ladies Vets are celebrating the 75’s victory at national level!

County tennis players, Di West (Exmouth), Jenny Doig (Barnstaple), Co-captains Anne Tait, (Budleigh Salterton) and Linda Knight (Torquay) recently represented Devon in the Ladies Over 75's County Cup Final. The Devon team became the National Champions beating Lancashire 3-1 in Southampton this autumn.

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Project to improve service access in rural areas picks up national award

A project supported by the Trust, which aims to improve access to health services for people in rural areas, has won a national award.

Rachel Williams is a consultant respiratory practitioner for the Trust. She has joined forces with other sectors to create a Farming Health Hub, serving north Cornwall. It aims to provide advice, support, and guidance to farming communities at local...

BASICS Devon appointed DCAA's charity of the year

The Devon County Agricultural Association (DCAA) is delighted to announce that BASICS Devon has been appointed as its Charity of the Year.

BASICS Devon are specialist volunteers delivering emergency pre-hospital care and vital life-saving education. They support communities across Devon with advanced medical treatment around the clock before patients reach hospital

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Restoration of Paignton Picture House in Torbay receives £675,246 from Historic England

Paignton Picture House has been awarded £675,246 from Historic England to carry out works to restore the historic fabric of the Grade II* listed cinema.

The much-loved Torbay landmark, one of Europe’s oldest purpose-built cinemas, has been on the Heritage at Risk Register since 2013. The £675,246 grant from Historic England will fund essential works to repair and safeguard its...

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Northlew Nativity Exhibition

What could potentially be the largest Nativity Exhibition in the South West is coming to a small village near Okehampton the weekend of 13 – 14 December

St Thomas’s Church, Northlew will be filled with dozens of nativity sets and images to illustrate the many different ways the birth of Christ has been interpreted and depicted around the world as well as more locally.

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Bonster the Hungry Monster delights pupils at East Devon primary schools

Bonster, the friendly food-waste-eating monster, is touring primary schools across East Devon as part of Recycle Devon’s Waste Education Programme.

Running from November 2025 to March 2026, the programme teaches children how reducing food waste helps the environment and why using their food waste caddy at home is important.

This week, pupils at Woodbury Salterton Church of...

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New trails opened at Stover Country Park

Stover Country Park near Newton Abbot has launched two new footpaths.

The developments from the latest phase of the Restoring Stover Park Project, supported by The National Lottery Heritage Fund, aim to improve the experience for visitors using the park, and to reduce the pressure on the sensitive habitats within the Site of Special Scientific Interest.

The 1.5 mile circular...

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