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Three leading local companies have joined forces in a high-profile charitable project aimed at rewilding the environment, promoting healthy eating and raising awareness of bowel disease.

The project has been commissioned by Bowel Research UK with the aim of constructing a ‘Microbiome Garden’ that reflects a healthy gut. It has been funded by Project Giving Back and designed by top garden designers, Chris Hull and Sid Hill.

The state-of-the-art garden is being constructed by Atlantes Landscapes in Exeter, transported to the prestigious RHS Chelsea Flower Show and returned...

IKEA has announced that it will be hosting a car boot event in Exeter this spring, following a successful pilot last year.

The retailer is set to host the event on 18th and 19th May, giving more customers the opportunity to sell and purchase pre-loved homeware bargains.

The IKEA car boot gives locals a space to sell unwanted home furnishing goods, decorations and more (which don’t have to be IKEA products) to give a new lease of life to old items. With a growing environmental awareness shaping the way consumers value the things they own, and how they shop, the event also...

Langford Park Care Home, situated just outside Exeter in Devon, has appointed Ed Courtney as its new home manager. Ed will be responsible for the day-to-day management of the 35-bed care home as well as overseeing the substantial modernisation and refurbishment project currently underway at Langford Park.

Ed has broad experience of all aspects of the care home sector. His first job at 16 was as an activities co-ordinator in a care home, which was where he first realised his passion and talent for helping and supporting older people.

Ed later worked for a care consultancy,...

A Devon-wide Battle of the Bands has launched today, calling for young musicians at secondary schools up to the age of 18 to sign up to join the contest. There are prizes including free recording, mixing and mastering a song for release on streaming platforms for the first, second and third prizes. Radio exposure and performance slots at music festivals in the South West are also up for grabs for contestants who impress the judges.

This brings together existing contests that have run in recent years in North, South, East and West Devon. Separately, each of the 4 contests have been...