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Second stage announced for TK Maxx presents Live At Powderham

An exclusive second stage is being added to Devon’s biggest music event this summer – with a host of extra artists joining the line-up.

TK Maxx presents Live At Powderham takes place across the weekend Thursday June 25 to Sunday June 28 with headline shows from Teddy Swims , Alanis Morissette and Lewis Capaldi.

And now additional artists will take to the festival’s all-new Castle Green Stage , performing from 2.30pm each day as gates open as well as after each headline artist.

Live music fans will enjoy the Castle Green Stage before and after the Main Stage acts...

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Pinhoe Rail Station enhancements boost convenience

A series of improvements have opened at Pinhoe rail station to better integrate rail with other sustainable transport options.

The station now has a new northern car park with 14 parking spaces, with some electric vehicle charging points (which should go live by the end of this month) and two additional designated disabled bays.

It also has 12 secure cycle lockers which can be rented (see more details on the Travel Devon webpages ). The southern car park features an electric Co Bikes station, enabling people to make the most of the cycle links through quiet residential...

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The lifesaving impact of Devon Air Ambulance’s Volunteer Responder Scheme 

Authored by News Desk
Posted: Wed, 11/09/2022 - 3:19pm

Following the launch of the Volunteer Responder Scheme (VRS) earlier this year clinicians have already responded to 41 cases and made a lifesaving difference.

Devon Air Ambulance Specialist and Advanced Paramedics in Critical Care not only dedicate their work to bringing advanced care to patients in time-critical situations, but they are also donating their free time to the cause as part of a 12-month trial Volunteer Responder Scheme launched in May this year.

Over the past five months, volunteer clinicians have responded to over 40 incidents , many of which were life-...

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Daily Bowl opens in Exeter's Queen Street

A new plant-based lunchtime cafe offering a seasonal menu of globally-inspired dishes, has opened its doors to the public at Exeter Central Station.

Daily Bowl is a social enterprise concept conceived by a group of passionate individuals, brought together by husband and wife team Herman Castaneda and Annie Murdock, who saw a gap in the market for healthy, convenient but most of all, sustainable food, that supports the region’s local producers in the process.

Annie said: “The south west is filled with incredible farmers and suppliers, many of whom are practising regenerative...

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Exeter researcher receives prestigious Celebrating Impact Prize

A University of Exeter researcher has been named among the winners of the 2022 Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) prizes.

The ESRC prizes reward social scientists whose work has made a social and economic difference at a local, national and international level.

Now in its 10th year, 60 prizes were awarded to those in the following categories: Outstanding Impact in Business and Enterprise, Early Career, International, Public Policy, Society and the John Hills Impact Prize 2022.

Receiving an award in the ‘Early Career’ category, Dr Buchan’s main research...

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Devon-based eco fleet-tech business takes top honours at Global Good Awards, and wins Highways UK Excellence Sustainability Award

Devon-based Lightfoot, the trail-blazing, in-cab coaching, rewards, and progressive telematics platform for fleets, has succeeded in not only scooping the top award for Best Product of the Year at the internationally renowned 2022 Global Good Awards, but also the Highways UK Excellence Sustainability award.

Rewarding businesses big or small for their responsible and sustainable practices, this year’s prestigious Global Good awards attracted the highest number of entrants from the widest global spread in its history, resulting in many hundreds of organisations vying for success....

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Veterans With Dogs achieves accreditation by Assistance Dogs International 

Authored by Simon Wells
Posted: Mon, 11/07/2022 - 11:30am

Veterans With Dogs, an assistance dog program dedicated to assisting British Armed Forces veterans with service-related mental health conditions, is pleased to announce that it achieved accreditation by Assistance Dogs International (ADI). ADI is the leading authority in the Assistance Dogs industry. It establishes and promotes standards of excellence in all areas of assistance dog acquisition, training and partnership.

Veterans With Dogs trains and provides assistance dogs for current and former members of the British Armed Forces with service-related mental health conditions...

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A Special Call from Topsham Museum

One of the area’s best loved museums is putting out a special call - a telephone call, that is.

For Topsham Museum, which is run by 200 volunteers in and around the Devon town, is about to take control of a classic red telephone box.

It will host special displays changing every two months bringing history into the centre of the town, and drawing people to the Museum proper which is located a few hundred yards away on Topsham’s historic Strand.

The box was decommissioned by BT earlier this year and was seized upon by the Museum as an ideal outpost. The shift of...

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Free train travel for forces personnel and veterans on Remembrance Sunday

Authored by News Desk
Posted: Fri, 11/04/2022 - 8:37pm

Serving military personnel and veterans attending local Remembrance Sunday events on Sunday 13th November can, once again, travel for free on all South Western Railway (SWR) services.

Serving personnel travelling to the Submariners’ Remembrance Service on Sunday 6th November or the main national commemoration at the Cenotaph in London on Sunday 13th will additionally be able to travel on any London bound SWR service for free on the day before the service, returning from London on the Sunday.

Note: there will be limited SWR services on Saturday 5thNovember due to...

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New officers join Devon & Cornwall Police as part of national Uplift programme

Authored by News Desk
Posted: Fri, 11/04/2022 - 8:03pm

Devon & Cornwall Police has recruited 313 student police officers as part of the Government’s national Uplift programme.

In 2019 the Government announced plans to recruit an extra 20,000 officers over three years and by the end of September 2022 a total of 15,343 additional officers have been recruited by police forces across England and Wales.

In Devon, Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly the Uplift funding injection meant that the Force needed to recruit an additional 469 police officers by the end of March 2023, with 313 having joined the Force by the end of...

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Brits can pay for their Christmas dinner by doing just one less load of laundry a week as the UK guilty of over-washing

Authored by News Desk
Posted: Thu, 11/03/2022 - 11:16pm

Research released this week from fastest-growing laundry brand, smol, has revealed that Brits who are currently over-washing their clothes could save enough to pay for their family’s entire festive feast by reducing their laundry by just 1.4 loads a week between now and Christmas.

With the average family Christmas dinner coming in at £31.50 and each average wash and tumble dry at £2.50, just over one less wash a week is enough to cover the cost of a meal for a family of four. One less wash a week should be easy for most, as smol has revealed millions of loads of laundry are done...

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