The thousands of visitors walking the South Devon coastline this summer are benefiting from several improvement projects as part of the South West Coast Path 40th Anniversary.
Thanks to funding from the Great South West Walk, Rural Development Programme for England (RDPE) and the National Trust, several projects have been completed, with more to go ahead later in the summer.
National Trust Head Ranger Simon Garner says: “We were very pleased to secure this funding. Without it, we would have struggled to complete all the projects. The winter really took its toll on the coast...
The Show is now over 50 years old and the excitement on show day is still evident the minute the hall opens. There are 97 classes to enter with 18 cups to win, including the peoples choice for adults and children. There were some new trophies this year in memory of local residents who have passed away including the Paul Palmer photo frame for best photograph, and the Ruby Cooke Cup. Ruby was a committee member for 50 years and always entered the cookery and flower classes.
Here is this years list of winners, TROPHY WINNERS FOR 2013
Volunteering may be good for your health, reveals a large systematic review and meta-analysis published in the open access journal BMC Public Health .
Volunteering can improve mental health and help you live longer, finds the study which pools and compares data from multiple experimental trials and longitudinal cohort studies. Some observational evidence points to around a 20 per cent reduction in mortality among volunteers compared to non-volunteers in cohort studies. Volunteers also reported lower levels of depression, increased life satisfaction and enhanced well-being, although...
A Community Health Check is being held at St Stephen’s Church, High Street, Exeter on Saturday, 7th September. Do you “know your numbers”? Get your BMI, blood pressure, blood sugar, and cholesterol measured for FREE.
One fire fighting appliance from Cullompton fire station attended reports of a car on fire outside Mcdonald's restaurant at the Cullompton services at 6.37am today.
Upon arrival, crews found one vehicle well alight.
Crews used two breathing apparatus and two hose reel jets to extinguish the fire which was located in the engine compartment.
Meanwhile, crews attended reports of a fire at the Red Lion House at Membury in Axminster last night.
Appliances from Chard, Colyton and Honiton were called to the scene at 6.29pm.
Police are appealing for the public’s help in identifying a suspect (pictured) after an attempted robbery in St Thomas, Exeter. The incident happened on Monday 5 August at around 9.10am outside the Post Office in Okehampton Road. The victim, a 27-year-old woman from Whipton, approached the Post Office to pay in the takings from a local store when she was approached by a white man from behind who was riding a push bike. The victim was pushed by the offender who grabbed at the bag she was carrying and said “give me the money”. A brief struggle then ensued between the victim and the offender...
Fresh from helping England's Under-20s to Junior World Championship success during the summer, Exeter Chiefs youngster Luke Cowan-Dickie has set himself a new aim ahead of the forthcoming 2013/14 campaign. That aim is to follow the lead of close friends Jack Nowell and Henry Slade, themselves other members of the winning Red Rose team in France, and look to work his way into a Chiefs squad in the Aviva Premiership. Last term both Nowell and Slade did just that as head coach Rob Baxter rewarded their efforts in training and on the field itself with appearances in English rugby's top flight...
Despite a solid track record, Exeter City manager Paul Tisdale is taking nothing for granted as his team prepares to face Morecambe away from home tomorrow (3pm).
Tisdale, who has notched up two wins and a draw since the season kicked off, told the club's website: “I take every away game assuming that we can win it just as much as a home game – I don’t view away games any less favourably than a home game and that’s the attitude we will take into the game on Saturday against Morecambe.
“Every game is different. The whistle goes at the beginning of the game, and it’s a fresh...
Farmland prices in the South West hit yet another record high during the first half of 2013 and have now more than trebled in less than a decade, according to the latest RICS Rural Land Market Survey H1 2013.
During the first six months of the year, the cost of farmland jumped to £7,250 per acre across the region, hitting a record high for the eighth consecutive period. The cost of land is now more than three times that of the same period in 2004 when an acre cost just over £2,300.
The exponential growth in prices has been driven by the on-going demand from farmers and...
