Local News

WINNING top awards for their produce has secured local farmers Neil and Sally Grigg a feature in a prestigious national magazine.

Neil and Sally, who run a farm near Broadclyst, are featured in this week’s Country Life magazine.

The couple are tenants on a 400 acre National Trust farm which is part of the Killerton Estate, where they have been farming their own herd of Red Ruby cattle since 2007. This month’s Country Life, features them talking about their entry into farming, following careers as an accountant and rural surveyor.

Neil said: ‘We always wanted to move...

Paul McCartney once famously said ‘If slaughterhouses had glass walls, we would all be vegetarians’… but of course they don’t, and most people remain unaware of the lives and deaths of animals bred for food. But now all that is changing with Animal Equality becoming the first animal protection group in the world to transport people inside factory farms and slaughterhouses via virtual reality technology.

Exeter will be the first stop for the international organisation’s iAnimal project, a virtual reality experience filmed over the past 18 months inside pig farms in the UK, Germany...

Exeter Chiefs prop Tomas Francis has been cited by the independent Citing Commissioner for allegedly making contact with the eyes or eye area of an opponent (Dan Cole) in the second half of the RBS Six Nations match between England and Wales at Twickenham on Saturday.

Francis, who was used as a second half replacement for Samson Lee, will answer a charge under Law 10.4 (m) which applies to Acts Contrary to Good Sportsmanship.

The disciplinary hearing will be held by an independent Six Nations Disciplinary Committee later this week.

England’s James Haskell has also...

A Devon and Somerset Trading Standards officer has been honoured at a national awards ceremony for his work in boosting business by forging closer ties between traders and regulatory bodies.

Former businessman Tim Milsom, owner of Exminster Garage for 27 years, has clinched the Government’s inaugural Better Business for All (BBfA) ‘Individual Ambassador’ Award at a ceremony in London.

The Devon and Somerset BBfA Partnership is an alliance of 19 local authorities across Devon and Somerset plus the Fire and Rescue Service working with the Heart of the South West (HotSW) LEP,...