Family Life

Heading out this weekend and want new places to experience autumn’s wildlife spectacles? Or perhaps you just want to discover nature on your doorstep...

With Nature Finder, The Wildlife Trusts’ new free iPhone app, you will have a fabulous guide to thousands of nature reserves and wildlife across the UK.

If you’re looking for a day out and wondering where to go or what to do, look no further. Nature Finder, the simple location-based app, enables the user to find Wildlife Trust nature reserves and events wherever their current location. The app uses GPS technology to...

The official launch of Pecorama’s new all weather, under cover play area, ‘The Play Station’ took place on Friday 25 October. The opening ceremony was performed by Farhan Bhuiyan the youngest pupil currently at Beer Primary School and Tyrone Bird, the eldest pupil at the school. As part of Pecorama’s development plans to offer an all round visitor experience particularly for families, the new Play Station will provide younger visitors from toddlers up to 12 years of age, with an exciting under cover play area – whatever the ‘variable’ English weather. The Play Station will also offer local...

The Gro Company, makers of the award-winning Grobag, are taking their support for Safer Sleep education to an even wider audience by providing all new UK parents with a comprehensive guide to help them establish their safer sleep routine.

Compiled by the experts at safer baby sleep charity, The Lullaby Trust, the guide will be distributed by Bounty in the pack which mums receive just after the birth of their child. For several years The Gro Company have distributed the guide nationally through the NHS and other authorities but has now provided a dramatically increased number of...

Devon farmers and primary school children will come together for an event designed to take children on the food journey from field to plate.

Approximately 1,200 children from nearly 30 primary and special schools from across Devon will attend the event - the first of its kind in Devon - on Tuesday 22 October, at the Westpoint Arena near Exeter.

The County Council-arranged event, 'Farm Wise Devon', will show young people how good food and drink is produced on Devon's farms, with practical demonstrations from 14 council tenant farmers, and additional support from the Devon...