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This year’s summer holiday is set to be the cycling adventure of a lifetime for Dwight Wood and his 11 year old son Lewis. The London-based pair are planning a 60 day ‘round UK coast tour’ taking in 2,650 miles of spectacular scenery and sights.

Dwight, who is Chairman of the Friends of Wanstead Parklands Preservation Group in East London, is an energetic campaigner for sustainable living and is co-founder of ‘ItDoesTheJob.com’ specialists in lifestyle products for low-energy living.

The bike ride has been planned to demonstrate how easy it is to enjoy a healthy, low carbon...

Staff from Living Coasts, Torquay’s coastal zoo, have led a clean-up of one of Torquay’s beaches.

Twenty-one volunteers joined workers from the charity to pick rubbish from Beacon Cove. But the clean has highlighted the scale of Torbay’s beach litter problem.

The haul included over 200 plastic items, including a bucket and a traffic cone, nearly 300 bits of paper, over 400 shards of glass and 170 pieces of metal, 90 of which were bottle caps. The total weight collected was over 31 kilos.

Clare Rugg, from Living Coasts, explained: “Beacon Cove is the beach on our...

Firefighters from Middlemoor today helped to free a mother and her two children after they had become stuck in their bathroom.

Crews were called to Digby Drive, Middlemoor, Exeter at 9.16am after reports that an occupant had become stuck in their bathroom.

Crews used a ladder to a first floor window to gain access to the bathroom, and used small tools to release them.

If you have clothes that need mending or restyling, or want to swap unwanted garments for hidden gems from another wardrobe, head to the Guildhall Shopping Centre next week.

From June 2-5 a group of students from the University of Exeter are taking over a shop in the centre as part of a series of global events and initiatives commemorating the first anniversary of the Rana Plaza factory disaster.

On April 24 last year, 1,133 people were killed and many more injured when the clothing complex collapsed in Dhaka, Bangladesh. After the disaster, dozens of brands quickly signed...