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WAITROSE Okehampton has supported the 2016 Dartmoor Folk Festival with a £1,000 donation through its Music Matters award scheme.

Waitrose is part of the John Lewis Partnership, an employee-owned UK company which operates John Lewis department stores, Waitrose supermarkets, its banking and financial services and other retail-related activities.

The John Lewis Partnership's Music Matters programme supports groups which make an outstanding contribution to their local community through music.

The Partnership has a long tradition of support for music. This dates back to...

South West food entrepreneurs have a once in a lifetime opportunity to join the West Country’s latest culinary hub.

The Find a Foodie campaign, from the team behind Exeter’s new and exciting Queen Street dining quarter, has set out to discover the next big thing in the region’s thriving food and drink sector.

The successful enterprise will receive an impressive support package, including a 3-month free occupancy of the quarter’s new purpose built kiosk, and expert business, marketing and mentoring support.

The search has received a great response already, from...

Work on the new £1.2 million slipway at Mamhead in Exmouth is progressing well as the next stage in construction is about to get under way.

East Devon District Council is restoring the vital maritime access and is paying for a larger slipway which will bring more business to the town.

Since the contractors Raymond Brown Ltd moved onto site at the beginning of March, work has focussed in the area formerly occupied by Mamhead Gardens. This is where vehicles and trailers will be able to manoeuvre in preparation for reversing down the new slipway to launch or recover their...

Hannah Berry, a 28 year old Personal Assistant from Farnborough in Hampshire has spent the last two years fighting for compensation with the help of specialist dental negligence solicitors, the Dental Law Partnership, against two dentists, who left her advanced gum disease undiagnosed and untreated, which will result in the loss of 13 of her teeth in the coming years. Ms Berry visited her local dentist Mr Espach of Broadway Dental Practice in East Sussex in 2008 as she wanted to ensure her teeth were in good order before spending a year abroad in Morocco, and had been experiencing...