Back by popular demand Topsham Rugby Club will be hosting their Car Boot Sale on the August Bank Holiday (Monday 29th August) from 9.30 am to 1 pm.
Public entrance is free, and sellers will be welcome to set up at 8 am with fees from £6 per car. The clubhouse will be open with hot food and drinks available.
For more details, visit www.topshamrugby.co.uk or call Bee Jenkins on 01392 873651.
Over the weekend of the 25th and 26th June there is a treat in store for garden lovers. As part of the Open Gardens charity fundraiser for Hospiscare,13 Budleigh Salterton residents have got together for an Open Gardens extravaganza!
For this weekend only, you can pay £7 for a weekend pass which will allow you entry to all 13 gardens on both Saturday and Sunday. Or you can pay per visit, for only £2.50.
You will enjoy a wide variety of flora and fauna with gardens like Roundhill, created in 1929 by a retired rubber planter. Roundhill has eccentric features like a huge...
A team of archaeologists, students and local volunteers have unearthed evidence of a Romano-British settlement in a rural Devon village.
The finds shed new light on how the county’s inhabitants lived during the Roman period. Until now little evidence of the Romans had been found outside of Exeter and it had been thought that rural areas had not been particularly affected by Roman influence.
Now the discoveries at Ipplepen, which is 20 miles south west and at least a good day’s walk away from Exeter, is causing archaeologists to re-think assumptions previously made about...
On 20th June Torridge District Council combined with Bideford Town Council for this now annual parade to honour the Armed Forces at the beginning of Armed Forces Week by holding a Flag Breaking Ceremony in Victoria Park Bideford.
The Tarka Pipe Band led the parade from the Quay in Bideford to the flagstaff at Victoria Park which consisted of serving Royal Marines from 11 Amphibious Trails and Training at Arromanches Camp, Instow, veterans from the Armed Forces, Cadets, Cubs and Brownies.
The Naval Padre from RMB Chivenor, Rev Janice Honey Morgan, conducted the service with...
A small safe has been stolen from St Mary’s Cottages, Exeter Street in Dawlish.
The burglary took place between 10am and 6pm on Thursday 9th June.
The burglar entered the property through a front groundfloor window, stealing the safe from inside.
The safe is a black ‘Sentry’ fireproof model, about the size of a home printer with a handle and a key lock on the front.
Police are keen to speak to anyone who saw anyone acting suspiciously in the area, and ask the public to be aware than the safe and its contents may have been dumped.
On Friday 24th June, Powderham Castle is inviting everyone to join in the National Cream Tea Day celebrations at the Castle.
Wholesome Devon cream teas will be served in abundance at the Courtenay Café, situated in the courtyard of Powderham Castle, with lashings of full-fat Langage Farm clotted cream and locally produced jam and tea.
The Castle will be open as usual and following a delicious cream tea, visitors can join a guided tour of the Castle and walk through the Castle grounds to burn off any extra calories.
Powderham has recently been included in Hudson’s ‘...
Independent lighting specialist Amos Lighting has appointed a manager for its soon-to-launch branch in Topsham.
Ashton Hargreaves, 25, from Exeter, will be taking on the role when the company’s second branch opens opposite Darts Farm later this year.
Having already built up a comprehensive understanding of the business working at the Amos showroom in Marsh Barton, she will be taking full responsibility for the day to day running of the new branch, including the showroom stock, visual merchandising and customer service.
Activities at Exeter’s Royal Albert Memorial Museum & Art Gallery (RAMM) using the museum and its objects to boost people’s wellbeing were recognised with an award from Arts & Health South West, an umbrella group promoting and supporting arts activities to benefit people’s health.
Like RAMM, Arts & Health South West believes that the arts, creativity and the imagination are agents of wellness, helping keep the individual resilient, aiding recovery and fostering a flourishing society. RAMM’s wellbeing programme uses the museum collections to help people make the most of...
In this very informative In a Nutshell video, Adrian Walker shares his advice on how to remain fit and healthy when we spend so much time sitting at our desks.
He discusses the alarming impact that a sedentary lifestyle can have on our health and offers simple solutions to reduce the damage that can be caused by prolonged sitting during our working days.
Adrian comments that 'the advantages of getting this right are huge and in addition to benefiting our general health we can improve productivity and reduce the costs of absenteeism'.
When Crediton-based Hedgerow Print installed a new order processing system back in 2013, they never imagined that barely three years later they would be processing the 10,000th order to go through that system.
“Our order processing system automatically numbers each order and we realised a few weeks ago that we were approaching the number 10,000 and thought it might be nice to mark that milestone,” said Gary Radford, Managing Director at the Company.
In order to mark the event, Hedgerow Print contacted all their customers and contacts to let them know of the plan to award a...
