A Devon based cider maker is celebrating its silver jubilee year in style after winning a national retailing award.
The Green Valley Cyder Barn and Ale House retail outlet based at Dart’s Farm at Topsham near Exeter has won the nationally recognized Drinks Retailing Award for Independent Cider Retailer of the Year 2014.
The Cyder Barn has grown from a small outdoor unit selling only cider pressed on site and made only from Devon apples to a large in-store retail outlet stocking 180 ciders and perrys from the UK and across Europe. It is now probably the largest retailer of...
For years, I've collected newspaper headlines that leave me thinking "And....?". A top example was a piece in the Express & Echo: 'Police choir sings'. A headline that wasn't quite.
Is it the same with the title above? Well, for me personally, no. For more than fifty years, stories have wandered unasked into my head; I've picked them up, turned them over, tickled their tummies perhaps, and then set them down to run away. But last April was different.
My eye was caught by a piece in the local paper about the venerable Devon & Exeter...
Three pupils from Exeter School have been selected for the England Under 18 hockey squad this week.
Upper sixth former Tom Poustie joins the squad for his second year along with Lower Sixth Formers Harry Skinner and Will Marsh.
They will train over the next few months as part of a squad of 24 players at the Lilleshall National Sports Centre in Shropshire, in preparation for international tournaments held in Germany and Spain at Easter and in July.
Exeter School Hockey Performance Coach, Mr Graham Skinner, said these three boys have worked exceedingly hard to earn...
Devon county council may raise its council tax for the first time in four years in an effort to protect its services against further cuts. Despite a budget cut of £100 million in the last four years the Council has to find another £110 million by 2017 with several non-statutory services already under review. The council’s cabinet met on Wednesday and agreed to 1.99% increase to the current council tax levels forgoing a government grant for freezing the tax for another year. Council leader John Hart explained the decision “If I accept a council tax freeze grant from the Government this year...
Extreme weather events like those experienced around the world in recent months have shown the importance of ensuring everything is done to protect agricultural land and enable farmers to meet future food production challenges, NFU President Peter Kendall will tell MPs today (Wednesday).
Giving evidence at the Efra Select Committee on food security, Mr Kendall will say that British farming is well placed to meet the challenge of increasing food production but the whole of the food industry has to work together to ensure it can maximise its potential.
Celebrity mums Joanna Lumley, Abbey Clancy and Zoe Ball recently joined forces to launch ‘Love, Mum’, a new joint campaign from Marks & Spencer (M&S) and Oxfam to raise money for mothers in living poverty around the world.
The ‘Love, Mum’ campaign is calling on the nation to shwop - not bin - unwanted childrenswear items, of any brand, to M&S stores across the South West in the run up to Mother’s Day.
‘Shwopping’ involves customers donating any item of clothing, of any brand, to be re-used, resold or recycled by charity partner Oxfam. Launched by Plan A...
This Valentine's Day a heartfelt invitation is going out to all Devon women urging them to enter Cancer Research UK’s Race for Life.
Event organisers are asking all mums, grans, sisters, aunts, daughters and friends to join the formidable army of passionate women determined to take on cancer by entering Exeter's Race for Life on 27 July.
Sam Beare, Cancer Research UK’s South West Events Manager, said: “Valentine’s Day is a great opportunity to spend time with the people we love. And for that reason it’s also the perfect date to enter Race for Life. This is because taking...
Partnership working between Devon and Somerset Trading Standards Service, Plymouth City Council Trading Standards, and Devon and Cornwall Constabulary claimed a success today, as two doorstep rogue traders pleaded guilty to fraud and Consumer Protection offences at Taunton Crown Court.
James Doran (29) of Quedgely in Gloucester and Patrick Connors (23) of Hatfield in Hertfordshire, pleaded guilty to a variety of offences committed in the summer of 2012 in Plymouth and Exeter.
They had travelled to the area, and in August, trading as South West Drives and Patios, approached...
