A Devon holiday park with its own private beach has won a top tourism award for providing the best family experience and customer service.
Sites across Somerset, Dorset and Devon were shortlisted for the regional 2014 Hoseasons ‘Family Fun’ Diamond Award.
And Ladram Bay Holiday Park, on the East Devon coast between Sidmouth and Budleigh Salterton, scooped the top award – for the fourth consecutive year.
The annual awards were held at the Celtic Manor Resort near Cardiff, with the Family Fun category recognising ‘exceptional quality and outstanding customer service...
Construction workers across the South West have been brushing up on their health and safety knowledge at the first ever CFSW Health and Safety Expo.
Over 400 local sub contractors and health and safety professionals and students attended the event, which took place in Exeter last week, to learn more about training, occupational health, asbestos awareness and removal, PPE, plant and equipment use, general construction site health and safety issues and working at height.
The theme for the day was ‘well being’ and aimed to alter behaviour and attitude to promote safe and...
Campaigners have launched a high-stakes bid to secure the future of Devon's Dartmoor Zoo, immortalised in the Hollywood Movie “We Bought a Zoo” starring Matt Damon.
The zoo, on the southern slopes of England’s last wilderness area, was bought in 2006 by journalist Benjamin Mee who wrote a book about his struggle to bring it back from the brink of ruin, inspire his family and save the animals while grieving the death of his young wife.
His tale of hope in adversity inspired Hollywood director Cameron Crowe to make the heartwarming film starring Matt Damon and Scarlett...
Following the success of our first comedy event, Comedy at the Park returns to Sandy Park on Friday, January 30th.
This time the line-up includes three comedians plus a compere. The night will start with Paul McMullan, who was described as "the best new comedian I've seen", followed by Nick Page - "the funniest thing I've seen all year" and finally "fast and funny" Geoff Boyz.
The compere will be Simon Clayton - a "fast-thinking Londoner".
Tickets for this event will be £10 and can be booked here.
World Unlimited are very pleased to announce details for a Devon show for The Gerry Colvin Band + support Sam Fearon at Kingskerswell Parish Church on December 13th. Doors 7pm
In the early 1980’s Gerry Colvin co-founded and fronted the legendary John Peel favourite skiffle-cowpunk indie outfit Terry & Gerry. This seminal band toured Europe and the USA and appeared on countless TV shows including The Tube and The Old Grey Whistle Test. T
heir five singles and album all reached No.1 on the indie charts. In the nineties Gerry spent time in Nashville - working as a...
Help Dartmoor National Park Archaeologists and Rangers look after prehistoric stone rows in a weekend of conservation work on Saturday 22 and Sunday 23 November.
Dartmoor’s landscape is among the richest in western Europe in terms of its archaeological remains. Dartmoor contains the longest stone row in the world and has the greatest number of archaeological sites out of all the UK National Parks. In fact 60% of all stone rows to be found in England are on Dartmoor and 1/3 of all stone rows in the UK and Brittany are on Dartmoor.
Christmas shoppers are being offered free parking after 5pm in Exeter City Council run pay and display car parks.
The offer runs from Thursday 20 November until Wednesday 24 December.
Those parking prior to 5pm will only be required to purchase a ticket until 5pm, whilst for those arriving after this time parking will be absolutely free.
Cllr Rosie Denham, Lead Councillor for Economy & Culture, said: "We wanted to offer something in the way of a seasonal thank you to our many car park customers and at the same time encourage people to come into Exeter to enjoy...
Around 100 LV= staff gave up their time on Friday to man the phone lines for BBC Children in Need.
The Exeter call centre staff were supported by Exeter Chiefs players Sam Skinner and Stu Townsend, who served drinks and snacks during the first part of the evening.
The volunteers handled over 2,000 calls between 6.45pm and 11pm, taking in excess of £60,000 in donations and pledges.
Steve Knight, Chief Operating Officer at LV= said: “We’ve worked with Children in Need for seven years now, however, this is the first time we have opened our Exeter call centre.
The Christmas season has started at Otter Nurseries with the opening of the ever popular Santa’s Grotto.
Visitors to the garden centre on opening day enjoyed additional family fun with free face painting, magic from George the Magician and entertaining characters from Cinderella. There was also the chance to meet donkeys from The Donkey Sanctuary.
Children took the opportunity to have an early chat with Santa and put in a hopeful word for this year’s most-wanted Christmas presents.
“November may seem early for a trip to meet Santa, but dates get booked up very...
Local families and children have just a few more days to donate their pre-loved toys to the Argos Toy Exchange in support of children’s charity Barnardo’s, which ends on 25th November.
The Argos Toy Exchange, a fundraising initiative which kicked off in October, encourages parents and children across the county to donate unwanted toys to their local Argos or Barnardo’s store, and in return they will receive a £5.00 gift voucher to redeem when they spend £35 or more on toys at Argos up until Christmas Eve. The money raised from the sale of the donated toys will go directly to...
