Community craft brewery, New Lion Brewery and passionate environmental and West Country food champion, The Venus Company have joined forces to create a new bitter, Venus Ale. Produced using a complex seven malt grist which imparts a warm golden brown colour, Venus Ale is a balanced and extremely drinkable modern session bitter.

This delightful and refreshing ale is exclusively available to purchase for consumption at Venus’ cafés and takeaways at Blackpool Sands, Bigbury on Sea, Tolcarne and The Shops at Dartington as well as at their beach shops at Blackpool Sands and Tolcarne....

Every year the RSPCA is called out to rescue hundreds of animals across England and Wales after their owners abandon them and in many cases leave them for dead.

In 2015 2,751 animals were rescued by the animal welfare charity with a peak in admissions in July, 534 of those were in Devon.

Now the RSPCA is bracing itself for another summertime influx of dumped animals this year too.

It is thought one contributing factor of people dumping their animals in the summer months is down to some owners heading off on holiday and not finding anyone to look after their pet...

A study which aims to evaluate the use of the drug ketamine as a treatment for people with severe alcohol disorder, or alcoholism, is currently recruiting volunteers in the South West.

‘KARE’ (Ketamine for reduction of Alcoholic Relapse) was awarded funding through the Biomedical Catalyst, a joint initiative between the Medical Research Council (MRC) and Innovate UK to support translational research that will benefit human health.

The study aims to recruit 96 recently abstinent* volunteers with severe alcohol use disorder, a condition which affects nearly four million...

​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​New figures on BBC Radio 1’s Big Weekend in Exeter and the benefits to the city and surrounding area have been released.

Earlier in the year the University of Exeter estimated that the Big Weekend would bring about £3.5 million of benefit to the local economy. Visit South Devon has said that tourism alone would have seen an uplift of around £1.7 million as a direct result of the event at the end of May.

And latest figures show just how popular the spin-off Radio 1 Academy proved. Held over two days at the Phoenix in Exeter (as well as at venues in...

Pavilions Teignmouth and South Devon UTC have scooped awards in the South West Local Authority Building Excellence Awards 2016.

The major projects were recognised for excellence in the South West Local Authority Building Control Awards 2016 on July 1 at the Holiday Inn, Plymouth.

Both were nominated by Devon Building Control Partnership, which provides the building control service on behalf of South Hams District Council, Teignbridge District Council and West Devon Borough Council. The team serves a population of 257,000 people covering 1,050 sq miles with 84 miles of...

Exminster Victory hall has been announced as a finalist in RGB Building Supplies’ Well-Built Community Fund.

It is now down to the public to vote, and the winner will receive £1000 worth of building materials.

The hall was opened in 1921 to commemorate the end of world war one, and winning the community fund would give Exminster hall the chance to fix the facility.

Exminster is currently up against Combe Martin based The Natural Approach Group and Whole Again Communities in Penzance.

Paul West, Branch Manager at RGB Exeter said: “Giving the public the...

The National Venus Awards, now in its third year, celebrated the success of its National winners for 2016 with regional winners, Associate, Regional and National Sponsors, guests and supporters in the beautiful surroundings of the Hampshire-based Hand-Picked Audley Woods Hotel on Thursday 7th July 2016.

The Venus Awards National Finals saw 70 regional winners compete in their respective categories for a coveted National Venus Award trophy, and where the bringing together of the Venus family of inspirational and influential women from across several counties and regions made for a...

Mid-Devon based garment distributor PenCarrie celebrated last month with a party to mark its 25th year in business.

Starting out on Marsh Barton Trading Estate in Exeter before moving to Sowton Industrial Estate and now based in Willand, PenCarrie is a truly local business, set up and still owned by Paul Persey and his family. The business is one of the largest trade suppliers to the garment decoration industry in the country and is a large employer in Devon.

When the company was set up 1991, its first warehouse was just 350sq m and it distributed just one product. The...