Devon Wildlife Trust is today celebrating the news that it has received a £13,340.00 funding award from SITA Trust for its project "Meadows for Everyone". Hay meadows are one of England’s rarest habitats. On Dartmoor, after many years of decline, there are now hopes that these spectacularly colourful landscape features could be on the verge of a real renaissance. A Heritage Lottery Fund project is promoting better management for surviving meadows, and a number of owners are cooperating to establish new flowering grasslands on private land. The Meadows for Everyone project will complement...

Seven Devon art groups are looking for votes, hoping that they will win the opportunity to display their work at Exeter’s award-winning Royal Albert Memorial Museum (RAMM) from 30 April to 29 May.

The Express & Echo newspaper is featuring their work throughout March and readers are invited to vote for their favourite.

The 2016 competition has a botanical theme and the shortlisted entries are:

• 21 Group of Artists, Bovey Tracey • Alphington Art Group, Exeter • Flying Colours, Teignmouth • Macula Collective, Exmouth • Newton Abbot Art Group • Tiverton Art Society...

The UK’s first mobile phone network aimed at serving older customers, Fuss Free Phones, has launched in Go Mobile stores across Devon.

Fuss Free Phones provides a telephonist-based concierge-style service, accessed at the press of a single big button on a Doro mobile phone. Answered immediately by specially trained, friendly telephonists, customers can ask to be put through to their friends and relatives, for a text message to be sent and replies read back, or request help to find something on the Web.

Now available in all 38 Go Mobile stores across Devon, Cornwall and...

Samaritans volunteers in Exeter, Mid and East Devon have launched a new campaign called We Listen, letting people know they can call Samaritans whatever they’re going through.

Posters in local railway stations really do allow the public to read between the lines because they contain hidden messages where people claiming to be fine are not OK at all.

One says ‘I’m alright with being single I guess. It’s not ideal for the kids, but they seem to be coping’ - the real message being, ‘I’m not coping’.

Supported by Network Rail, the campaign aims to show that while it’s...

Killerton’s Kitchen Restaurant, situated inside the Georgian mansion near Exeter, is to celebrate home-grown ingredients and local cooking talent by throwing open its doors to a new Secret Supper Club.

The fine-dining restaurant, which won Gold in last year’s Taste of the West awards, will open late on the first Wednesday of the month from 2 March until December. Diners can look forward to dishes like venison terrine, pork tenderloin and chilli chocolate fondant made from local produce grown on and around the National Trust estate.

The changing seasonal menus will include...

Head coach Rob Baxter hailed his Exeter Chiefs side as they saw off local rivals Bath Rugby to close the gap on leaders Saracens at the top of the Aviva Premiership.

Fresh from victory away to London Irish the week previous, the Devon club pocketed only their second-ever league win against Bath at a packed out Sandy Park.

Skipper Gareth Steenson was the chief architect of the home side’s 26-17 win, plundering four penalties and also converting tries for Ian Whitten and Kai Horstmann. The Irishman’s 16-point haul took him to 1,000 top flight points and edged him ever closer...

The reality of life for refugees fleeing the conflict in Syria will come vividly to life when award-winning photographer Giles Duley shows his pictures and tells the stories behind them at this year’s TEDxExeter.

Duley, who lost three limbs and nearly his life in 2011 when working in Afghanistan, is an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society. He started out as a fashion and music photographer photographing such nineties icons as Oasis, The Prodigy and Pulp.

Disillusioned with celebrity culture, he discovered that he could use his craft to tell the stories of those...