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Free Cider and Summer Tunes Come to Devon with a Music Series from Thatchers Cider

Free pints, live music and summer vibes

Thatchers is set to delight music and cider fans heading into venues and pubs across the summer with a national 40+ gig series that will visit Devon throughout August.

A mix of Juicy Sounds DJ nights and Summer Sessions acoustic evenings will be held to celebrate what promises to be a summer filled, not just with sport, but with music too.

Events are currently planned for:

  • The Blue Ball in Exeter on Friday 7th August.

  • Boathouse, Dawlish, Saturday 8th August.

  • Hyde Dendy,

  • ...

Stagecoach activities for Catch the Bus Week

Stagecoach South West is joining forces with sustainable transport group Greener Journeys to promote the benefits of bus use through the fourth annual ‘Catch the Bus Week’.

The campaign, which takes place from 4-10 July, aims to drive awareness of the benefits of taking the bus and encourage local people to make the switch from the car that week and consider leaving the car at home for some journeys in the future.

Stagecoach South West, along with Greener Journeys, which is spearheading the campaign, and hundreds of other participants all over the country – including bus...

70/30 Campaign Promoted in Devon

Authored by News Desk
Posted: Wed, 07/06/2016 - 3:35pm

WAVE Trust, a UK charity, is raising awareness in Devon with a new campaign to reduce child maltreatment by 70 percent by 2030.

More than 1 in 5 children in the UK will suffer significant abuse or neglect in their lifetime, with 90% of these receiving no support.

The 70/30 campaign aims to prevent the maltreatment of children by tackling the root causes, such as parental substance abuse, domestic violence and maternal mental health problems.

Early, effective support can help parents to overcome these problems and prevent harm before it happens.

The campaign...

Hunt for fake policeman in Mid Devon

Police are investigating a theft and attempted burglaries carried out by a suspect impersonating a police officer.

This has been said to have taken place around 8.00pm on Tuesday 5 July, at a number of properties in Culm Haven, Uffculme, near Cullompton.

Police have attended and conducted house to house searches with a police dog after residents discovered a man attempting to enter their property on two occassions, in which the suspect claimed to be a poloice officer, and on one occassion is believed to have been caught leaving a property.

During the house to house...

Top chef backs Exeter leisure complex

Authored by Mary Youlden
Posted: Wed, 07/06/2016 - 11:50am

The new St Sidwell’s Point leisure complex will smarten up the area and bring huge benefits to local people and vistors, one of Britain’s top chefs has declared.

Internationally acclaimed chef, Michael Caines MBE, has leant his support to the state-of-the-art scheme in the heart of Exeter.

“St Sidwell’s Point is a hugely exciting development for Exeter,” he said.

Michael, Chef Patron of the soon-to-open Lympstone Manor Hotel and holder of two Michelin stars for the past 18 years, added: “Right there in the very heart of our city, on a site that was bombed in the war...

Councils partner-up to protect environment

Authored by Mary Youlden
Posted: Wed, 07/06/2016 - 10:43am

Teignbridge, East Devon District Councils and Exeter City Council have joined together to form a new cross-boundary partnership that works across the three authority areas to protect three internationally important conservation sites.

The three councils have established the South East Devon Habitat Regulations Executive Committee, a partnership helping to protect places such as the Exe Estuary, Dawlish Warren and the East Devon Pebblebed Heaths for future generations to enjoy.

With a growing population, there is likely to be more activity on these significant conservation...

Trust shortlisted for national patient safety award

Authored by Mary Youlden
Posted: Wed, 07/06/2016 - 10:33am

Northern Devon Healthcare NHS Trust (NDHT) is in the running to win a national award for its work to improve patient safety in local care homes.

The Trust’s North Devon care homes team has been shortlisted for the Patient Safety Awards 2016, organised by leading publications the Health Service Journal and the Nursing Times.

The team supports care homes to improve the safety and quality of care for their residents. It works with staff at around 70 local care homes and focuses on the six Cs: compassion, commitment, competence, courage, communication and care.

The...

Volunteers needed to work on historic tramway

Authored by Mary Youlden
Posted: Wed, 07/06/2016 - 10:15am

Join Dartmoor National Park Ranger Simon Lee on Sunday 10 July as he leads a team of volunteers to continue working on the popular Templer Way walking route near Haytor. The day runs from 10:30 until 3:30 and starts at the National Park Visitor Centre, Haytor.

The Templer Way follows the route by which granite was taken from the quarries in the Haytor area during the 1800s on an 18 mile journey toTeignmouth on the south coast.

A granite tramway was used to transport the stone down to Stover Canal from where it was shipped down to the docks at Teignmouth. Large parts of the...

A quarter of a million households and businesses now have superfast broadband

More than a quarter of a million households and businesses can now benefit from superfast broadband as a result of the multi-million-pound Connecting Devon and Somerset (CDS) programme.

The key milestone was achieved as engineering teams continued on schedule with the huge job of laying thousands of miles of optical fibre cable and installing hundreds of roadside fibre broadband cabinets.

So far, the CDS programme has made fibre broadband available to 308,000 Devon and Somerset premises, of which more than 250,000 can get superfast speeds of 24 Mbps and above – and the...

Charity launches search for inspirational people

A leading provider of British Sign Language (BSL) and other deaf and deafblind qualifications in the UK has launched its search for the South West’s most inspirational people involved in the deaf and deafblind community.

Signature has announced the opening of nominations for its eighth Signature Annual Awards, which celebrates people across the UK who are involved in providing a positive impact on the lives of some of the 11 million deaf and hard of hearing people living in the country.

Signature executive director Lindsay Foster said: "We are overwhelmed every year by the...

Today’s bingo player is younger and more outgoing than you might think

Authored by Newshound
Posted: Wed, 07/06/2016 - 4:17am

You can tell a lot about a person by the things they choose to do in their free time. There are the adventurous types who seek thrills through adrenaline-rush sports, such as bungee jumping and skydiving, and then you get the introverted bookworms who long for nothing more than to be left undisturbed with only a pile of paperbacks for company.

However, it seems that not every book can be judged by its cover (if you’ll pardon the pun!). A new and interactive infographic from Wink Bingo has revealed that - contrary to what you might have assumed - most online bingo players see...

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