National Trust has been able to carry out extensive repair work to dry stone walls around East Soar Farm near Salcombe. Funded through Natural England’s Higher Level Stewardship Scheme, these boundary walls are over 200 years old.
Contractor Mark Newman Stonework has been working with his team for three months, repairing and rebuilding in total over 350m of wall. Some of the work has been on some very steep cliffs where the wall has collapsed over time and has been a challenge for the team to work on, particularly in the recent weather.
Hundreds of protesters have gathered in Male, the capital of the Maldives, following the arrest on Tuesday morning of former President and leader of the Maldives Democratic Party, Mohamed Nasheed.
Photographs shared by sources in Male show demonstrators being arrested and put in police vans. A heavy police presence, with officers in riot gear has been reported.
Protesters have reportedly tipped a government vehicle over, as clashes intensify.
Offenders put the lives of police officers at risk by tampering with road signs on a blind bend near Honiton. The culprits dragged two large temporary triangular warning signs and sandbags into the middle of the A30 near Yarcombe in the early hours of Saturday (2 March). The signs had been by the side of the road on a blind bend in a wooded area at Hilltop. A police unit and ambulance on a 999 call to help a person with medical difficulties had to take emergency action to avoid a collision. Sergeant Richard Poole, of Honiton police station, said the signs had been deliberately moved into...
South West insurer Cornish Mutual has launched a campaign to improve the safety of horses during transport. Called HorseSafe, the campaign is being run in partnership with the specialist animal rescue team at Devon & Somerset Fire & Rescue Service. "We hope that HorseSafe will help to raise awareness of safety issues when transporting horses and help owners make the right choices for themselves and their individual horses or ponies," said Philip Wilson, Field Force Manager at Cornish Mutual. Neil Giddings, animal rescue specialist at Devon & Somerset Fire & Rescue Service (...
Exeter-based fashion boutique Dukes are now stocking London-based lifestyle fitness, swimwear and loungewear brand Vevie.
Vevie was launched last year and was founded by Caroline Greenslade. Through her career Caroline has designed lingerie, swimwear and loungewear for both designer and high street brands in the UK, these include designing Heidi Klein’s launch range, working with Agent Provocateur, Pistol Panties and Hoola and as Head of Design for Debenhams.
Caroline’s background in lingerie design and technical garment fit and construction brings a new perspective to both...
BBC Radio Devon presenter David FitzGerald will be taking part in the Hospiscare Men’s Walk this month as part of his intense health and fitness campaign.
FitzGerald, who presents the interactive lunch, has been challenged by the BBC’s ‘Inside Out South West’ to take on a new healthier lifestyle. The DJ, who had been a stranger to exercise untill recently, has decided to walk the 10 kilometer route for the local charity as part of his new fitness regime.
To the listeners of his show David FitzGerald is better known for his love of food then his active lifestyle, but has...
Employees with disabilities are twice as likely to be attacked at work and experience much higher rates of insults, ridicule and intimidation, a new study has found.
Research from the universities of Plymouth and Cardiff found people with physical or psychological disabilities or long-term illness reported higher rates of 21 types of ill-treatment than did other workers. This included higher levels of physical and verbal abuse from managers and colleagues, but also from customers and clients they came into contact with.
The new leader of the Green Party of England and Wales, Natalie Bennett, is visiting Devon Today (Tuesday 5 March) to launch the Green Party Manifesto for Devon for the May Devon County Council elections.
Voted in as party leader during 2012, her visit will also include meeting Devon farmers to discuss the horse meat scandal and the impact of climate change on farming.
Independent traders in Honiton and Exeter will also have an opportunity to meet her to talk about the challenges facing small businesses and enterprises. Natalie will visit the Bus station site in Exeter to...
Exeter Chiefs head coach Rob Baxter admitted he took a "great deal of pride" from his side's showing as they completed a league double over reigning Aviva Premiership champions Harlequins. Baxter watched on intently as his team battled back from conceding a converted Ugo Monye try early on to record a 27-16 victory at the Twickenham Stoop. Fly-half Gareth Steenson was the chief tormentor for the home side as not only did he help himself to an excellent 17-point haul with the boot, but his impressive on-field display also helped him create second half tries for Damian Welch and Luke Arscott...
Tickets go on sale today (Tuesday 5 March) for the biggest variety show in the county calendar. Everything from Dancing Diggers to ‘orange elephants’ and fabulous local food and drink will be at the Devon County Show on May 16 to18 at Westpoint, Exeter.
Making this spectacular event even more family-friendly, a ‘Kids go free’ promotion is available for up to three children (aged between five and 15 years old) when accompanied by a paying adult on Saturday.
Advance tickets offer savings off the on-the-day prices including a special offer for senior citizens (aged 60 and over...
