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After last year’s outstanding success, Toby Buckland’s Garden Festival is back at Powderham Castle on Friday 1st & Saturday 2nd May and heralds a new style of gardening show, combining expert horticultural knowledge with plenty of delicious local food, craft, live music and family fun - a great day out for everyone.

10 Things ………..

1. It’s a festival!

“I love a party,” says Toby, “for me the festival is a giant garden party where I can invite some of my favourite friends to speak and share their vast knowledge but there’s plenty more going on too, it’s a place...

An information day held yesterday (26 March) for locals wanting to get involved with Seaton Jurassic attracted more than 100 people eager to find out more. The same day the project team received the welcome news that a further £200,000 has been secured for the centre from Coastal Communities Fund.

The drop-in event at Seaton Town Hall was the second of its type to give local people an update on progress of the project and explain how local people can get involved through volunteering, fundraising or donating items as exhibits. The newly appointed manager of Seaton Jurassic, Mike...

Two rising research stars at the University of Exeter Medical School have been awarded prestigious Sir Henry Dale Fellowships.

Dr Sarah Flanagan and Dr Rachel Freathy have both received the award, in a scheme run by the Royal Society, the UK’s national academy of science, in partnership with the Wellcome Trust. The Sir Henry Dale Fellowships were created for outstanding post-doctoral scientists wishing to build their own UK-based, independent research career addressing an important biomedical question.

Both Dr Freathy and Dr Flanagan work in the area of human genomics, and...

Businesses from across Devon attended the launch of a new magazine for the county at Sandy Park, the home of the Exeter Chiefs.

Business and Professional life is a quality, quarterly publication partnered by a daily digital platform.

The new initiative is the result of a link-up between Archant, the publishers of Devon Life, and The Daily UK, which owns two citizen journalism websites, The Exeter Daily and The Plymouth Daily.

It is a ground-breaking alliance and thought to be the first time in the UK that an independent digital publisher has joined forces with a...