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This year’s upcoming tree planting season will mark the fifth season that Devon County Council has been running its Free Tree Scheme.

As part of National Tree Week, which this year runs until Sunday 3 December, Devon will be handing out a total of 50 “free tree packs”, each containing 45 native broadleaved trees, to landowners and communities who successfully applied to the initiative.

It’s the third consecutive year that the County Council has received support for the scheme through the Emergency Tree Fund granted by The Woodland Trust.

However, Devon first...

Winter temperatures are forecast to arrive overnight and Devon County Council’s gritting teams are set to be called into action for the first countywide treatment this season.

Road surface temperatures are expected to drop below freezing across the county, reaching as low as -3C in some areas.

Gritters will be out on all of Devon’s main gritting routes from around 7pm tonight.

Councillor Stuart Hughes, Devon County Council Cabinet Member for Highway Management, said: “We’ve been hit by several storms as we head into winter, but we’re now set to see a change in...

Award-winning chefs at Bovey Castle teamed up with cooks of the future from two Devon colleges for a special event providing students with a taste of the hospitality industry.

Bovey Castle, in Dartmoor, welcomed more than 20 students from South Devon College and Exeter College to produce a four-course lunch served to 80 lucky guests.

Students cooked alongside Bovey Castle Executive Head Chef Mark Budd as well as four head chefs from the hotel’s sister restaurants within The Eden Hotel Collection, which included Tim Jenkins from Brockencote Hall Hotel, Keiron Stevens from...

Staff and residents at Barchester’s Cumberland Grange care home, in Exeter have been decking the halls, getting out the tinsel and unravelling the fairy lights, ready for a whole host of Christmas celebrations.

Cumberland Grange’s residents and staff have been busy putting up five large Christmas trees and other festive decorations throughout the home making it look like a magical winter wonderland with beautiful glistening lights. Over the next couple of weeks residents will continue to decorate with homemade dried fruit garlands and jingle bell decs!

General Manager,...