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BBC Radio Devon will play host to the BBC World War One At Home Live Event when it appears at the Okehampton Show on 14 August 2014. The special event will reflect the dramatic impact the war had on families and communities across Devon, and help visitors to explore their own relatives’ links to the war.

The BBC World War One At Home Live Event is a family-friendly event which includes hands-on activities, performances and interactive sessions designed to appeal to everyone aged from eight to 80-plus. The events are intended to bring to life the World War One At Home stories that...

Otter Nurseries staff recently sprang into action after receiving an SOS phone call from Alan Titchmarsh.

The celebrity gardener was creating a garden in Bideford for his TV show, Love Your Garden and wanted to know if the East Devon garden centre had a ready supply of the specific plants needed for his garden design.

Hardy nursery worker Carla Ward-Best said: “At first we thought it was a wind up, but there’s no mistaking his voice. He was very knowledgeable about the plants he wanted, too.”

The garden in question was being created for the Woods family who had...

MPs and councillors visited the South Devon Link Road construction site earlier this month for an update on current activity and to find out more about the next phase of the project.

MPs Anne Marie Morris and Adrian Sanders visited the site, along with John Hart, Devon County Council Leader and Robert Excell, Executive Lead for Safer Communities, Highways, Environment and Sport at Torbay Council.

Devon County Council and Torbay Council, along with contractor Galliford Try, organised the visit - visitors were given a tour of the site along the route of the new road to view...

A Newton Abbot building sub-contractor has been fined for safety failings that caused him to suffer a fractured spine while he was demolishing a temporary school classroom near Exmouth.

William Batten, 66, trading as Bill Batten Concrete Cutting and Demolition Service, was injured when he removed key timber supports at the corners of the roof, destabilising it and causing it to collapse on top of him. The collapse was witnessed by schoolchildren in a nearby playground on their lunch break.

Mr Batten suffered a fractured vertebrae and neck injury. He was hospitalised for a...