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Cotley Farm Christmas is inviting visitors to its East Devon Christmas tree farm to join their ‘Keep it Real’ campaign. Encouraging them to not only join in the festive family activities held at the farm, but opt for a real tree this Christmas. The benefits of a real Christmas tree from a local producer and supplier can far outweigh that of a plastic tree, which will ultimately end in a landfill without ever decomposing. The carbon footprint is much lower than a plastic tree and there are no air miles with a Cotley Christmas tree as the trees are grown in fields near the farm. For each...

The environmental charity Hubbub and Recycle Devon are urging Devon's pumpkin carvers to join the biggest #PumpkinRescue yet.

#PumpkinRescue is a campaign that aims to reduce food waste during the popular holiday season. This year, Hubbub and Recycle Devon are launching Devon’s biggest ever #PumpkinRescue. Families attending Halloween events at Devon’s top attractions will find a fantastic wealth of information about cooking pumpkin recipes with their carvings and avoiding wasting leftovers.

Halloween is now Britain’s third biggest commercial holiday, after Christmas and...

East Devon District Council’s new property services partners, Ian Williams Ltd, who maintain its 4,200 council homes, has opened a new office at Woodbury.

The building will be the central hub for the contractors to carry out all aspects of maintaining and improving the council’s properties, which includes providing a day-to-day repairs service for tenants and proactively fixing issues before they become a more expensive problem. The ten year contract, which began in July, also includes bringing empty properties up to standard before being re-let.

Councillor Megan Armstrong...

The Exeter branch of RGB Building Supplies is offering excess wood to the local community and groups at no cost.

The branch has spare pallets and wood from packaging that people are invited to pick up and make use of for projects, or to help with local bonfire night celebrations.

Paul West, Branch Manager at RGB Exeter, commented: “The wood is perfect for community organisations who are organising firework displays, or for people looking to complete small projects in their homes. The items generally go into a skip to be destroyed, but as the wood is perfectly usable, we...