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The Donkey Sanctuary near Sidmouth is celebrating after it’s visitor destination for educational school trips has been nationally recognised by the Countryside Educational Visits Accreditation Scheme (CEVAS).

The accreditation is awarded to establishments where staff have met the criteria and operates in line with the CEVAS Code of Practice, which is a quality assurance standard.

The accreditation requires training, self-guided learning and coursework in a variety of areas, including the National Curriculum in Food, Farming and the Countryside. This will ensure schools and...

Businesses and residents throughout Exeter are invited to drop off sacks of confidential waste to be shredded free of charge at a one-day event at Exeter City Football Club car park on Thursday 28 January, from 10am to 4pm.

The event is hosted by recycling and waste specialists, Coastal Recycling, who offer a confidential waste shredding service to keep Devon SMEs compliant and safe. They are facilitating the free confidential shredding day to mark European Data Protection Day 2016.

The confidential shredding service from Coastal Recycling offers a corporate solution to...

Adopt South West prepares to re-launch its TV campaign this week with emphasis falling on encouraging those who would consider adopting ‘priority’ children to come forward.

The appeal comes as Somerset County Council joins the partnership alongside Barnardo’s, Devon County Council, and Families for Children, Plymouth City Council and Torbay Council, to promote adoption.

With much attention being drawn to the decline in adoption placements of young children and babies across the UK, Adopt South West is keen to find adoptive families for those children whose numbers continue...

Toby Buckland, horticulturalist, writer and TV presenter is pleased to announce the line-up for his 2016 Garden Festival at Powderham Castle, near Exeter.

The festival will take place over two days, Friday 29th April and Saturday 30th April, 10am-5pm

This year’s fluorescent Festival line up provides well dug gardening expertise along with pots of entertainment.

Toby Buckland, Festival MC, a twinkle in the eye and a merry horticultural quip at the ready, whose ambition is to sail a garden shed down the River Exe. His career has taken him from Devon nurseryman, to...