The Muddy Dog Challenge is back in Exeter for more mud, sweat and cheers helping to raise money for the dogs and cats at Battersea.

Battersea’s Muddy Dog Challenge is one of the UK’s biggest obstacle courses you can take part in with your dog. The aim of the challenge is simply to have fun while raising money for Battersea. Participants can enter solo, in a team with the kids, with or without a dog, and there is a distance of 2.5km or 5km to choose from. All registered participants will receive a Muddy Dog Challenge t-shirt and dog bandana to take part in, and a medal and rosette...

Tesco customers in Devon taking part in a new campaign to provide meals to children living in food insecurity have enabled thousands of meals to be donated.

In the past three weeks, the Devon Tesco stores have given a donation for every vegetable and piece of fruit across all its stores.

It has been part of the Buy One to Help a Child scheme to provide food that FareShare will redistribute to children’s charities.

Sales of stacks of strawberries, a bounty of bananas and container-loads of cucumbers purchased by Tesco customers mean that over 5,000 charities will...

Devon has the opportunity to become the heart of a ‘Southwest Powerhouse’ with communities creating their own power, selling what they don’t need and then reinvesting proceeds into local projects such as giving local homes a net-zero retrofit.

This would create thousands of jobs and help ensure that the county achieves the goal enshrined in its Carbon Plan, to become Net-Zero by 2050 at the latest.

And the key could well be onshore wind.

Devon has more not-for-profit Community Energy Organisations than any other county in England – and the county’s geography and...

Devon County Council and the NHS has issued 23,000 ‘thank you’s - one to every care worker working in the county council area – for going above and beyond to keep vulnerable people safe and well throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. But with the entire health and care system at full stretch the County Council says the situation is becoming unsustainable, and is calling for over 1,000 more people to join the care workforce, and for families and communities to do all they can help ease the pressure. “We all know that the whole health and care system is under tremendous pressure right now and it...

A Exeter-based businessman has been appointed by the Government to help small businesses seize the post-Brexit opportunities offered by the UK’s new trade deals.

Simon Lane of HEL Performance Products has joined the Department for International Trade’s cadre of more than 400 successful business leaders across England, tasked with passing their expertise in selling overseas onto other, less experienced companies.

HEL Performance began exporting its range of performance vehicle braking products in 2002 by setting up distributors in five European countries, and the company...

The Campaign for Learning is inviting organisations and businesses to run special activities for this year’s Family Learning Festival (16th to 31st October). This year’s theme is ‘Play, Imagine, Learn’.

The Family Learning Festival, now in its 23rd year, aims to promote a love of learning for life. Organisers run activities for different generations to learn together. The Festival is for all the family, children and their parents, carers, grandparents, uncles, aunts and friends take part.

Juliette Collier, National Director at the Campaign for Learning said, “There are...

Private tenants such as students looking for new digs ahead of the autumn semester are being warned not to get caught out by costly rental fees which have now been banned.

The warning, from the Heart of the Southwest Trading Standards Service, which covers Devon, Plymouth, Somerset, and Torbay, follows a recent audit carried out by the Service, of 81 lettings agents across the service area.

The Service worked in partnership with The Property Ombudsman and found that 70 per cent of the letting agents checked failed the audit because of a range of issues relating to tenant...

Logistics and distribution group Gregory is making good on its environmental commitments by breaking new ground in partnership with innovative brewery Brewdog and operating the first all-electric 19 tonne rigid refrigerated vehicle in the UK.

Electric vehicles form part of Gregory’s five year sustainability strategy which has already seen the introduction of electric pool cars and a number of gas powered vehicles to reduce its environmental impact, with 15% of its new orders now for alternative fuel vehicles....

It is always the right time to think of your great outdoors. Most people think of what they should do to their outdoor space only during spring. However, nowadays, there is a lot you can add to it and give it a makeover. Patios, decks, lawns beckon. What do you keep in mind as you choose your outdoor furniture? The space, the place to buy them, the budget, should it be child friendly? The sunlight it needs, when will you be using it? Plus, many others are some things to consider. Below are vital things to explore before you spend your dollars on your outdoor furniture.

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New weddings and events venue, Valleyside Barn based in Bickleigh, will host a local food and drinks fair to officially launch their opening. Sixteen local food and drinks producers will attend the daytime event on Sunday 26th September. Visitors will be able to sample sweet and savoury delicacies including oysters, smoked fish, dim sum and a range of ales, lager, cider, gin and wine from across the region.

Emma Wright, Partner of Valleyside Barn & Escapes said, “We’re very excited to officially open our newly converted barn. The food and drinks fair is an opportunity for...