The summit stage finish at Haytor will be one of the toughest three hill-climbs in this year’s Tour of Britain says race director Mick Bennett.
And the Devon stage's victor could crucially point the way to who wins the overall race.
This year’s Stage Six of Tour of Britain starts in Sidmouth and ends in Haytor, taking in communities including Ottery St Mary, Honiton, Willand, Tiverton, Crediton, Moretonhampstead, Chudleigh and Bovey Tracey.
It is being hosted by Devon County Council and partners East Devon District Council, Sidmouth Town Council, Teignbridge...
The organisers of the Nourish Festival are looking forward to this year’s festival which takes place in early September.
The Festival will bring some of the region’s top food producers and craft makers to Bovey Tracey, alongside a programme of nationally and internationally renowned musicians.
This year, Nourish Festival launches The Devon Street Food Awards in association with Devon Life, a lively competition to decide who is the Best Street producer in Devon. Devon is packed full of inspirational and exciting street food producers and Nourish celebrates our Food Heroes...
Devon & Somerset Trading Standards Service is warning residents to be vigilant against scammers claiming to be from a council or other public authority.
The warning follows a series of complaints to the service from residents who have received scam calls.
Callers claiming to be from local authorities including Devon County Council and Somerset County Council have attempted to gain the confidence of their victims, their personal details or money.
Bogus callers have variously offered to help with a compensation claim following an accident, asked for money to...
Stagecoach South West has joined forces with the North Devon Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA) to produce a new guide to visiting some of the region’s best pubs by bus.
’21 pubs on the 21 bus route’ includes pubs perfect for families, pubs with history, pubs with live music or sports and ones that serve great food. Of course, it goes without saying, that all pubs featured also carry a great selection of real ales.
The pubs are all located on, or close to, Stagecoach’s flagship 21/21A North Devon Wave bus service, connecting Ilfracombe, Braunton, Barnstaple, Bideford and...
After 18 months in the planning, Exeter School pupils, parents, staff, friends and alumni are putting their best wheel forward to raise £50,000 for charity, departing from Land’s End on Monday 8 August. The team of twenty riders supported by eight crew, two minibuses, and a trailer will cycle 912.9 miles and 46,929 vertical feet over ten days to raise money for the Children’s Society and The Janine Di-Vincenzo Foundation. Estates and Facilities Manager Craig Stewart has organised the ambitious cycle ride from Land’s End to John O’Groats. “After many conversations with colleagues over lunch...
Cult coffee and wine bar, Artigiano, recently hosted Exeter’s highly successful PA Network for an evening of crafting cocktails, munching pizza platters and some essential networking with their peers.
Established in 2012, the Exeter PA Network is a professional networking group dedicated to supporting Executive Assistants, Personal Assistants, Secretaries and Administrators. With a mission to raise the profile of these vital roles within the business world, while delivering fresh and forward-thinking training and recognising the changes made to the PA role in recent years, the PA...
Your essential guide to what’s on in and around Exeter this weekend (5-7 August).
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Margo and Mr Whatsit Friday & Saturday, Exeter Phoenix Did you ever have an imaginary friend? A little piece of mischief only you could see? Someone that made you feel safe through new schools, new families, new homes? Sophia’s imaginary friend is called Mr Whatsit, and he’s always there with a new joke to tell and a new game to play – that is, until the day she unimagines him. Now there’s a new imaginary friend in town – the tea-drinking, lipstick-wearing, ever-confident Margo....
Devon law firm WBW Solicitors has strengthened its commercial property team with the appointment of experienced commercial property solicitor Ashley Bevans to its Torquay Office.
Ashley joins WBW as an associate solicitor from Ashfords in Exeter. He is one of four new solicitors to join WBW’s property department.
Ashley specialises in commercial property and has extensive experience dealing with commercial leases and licensed trade properties.
Anthony Fripp, Head of Commercial Property said: “We are delighted to welcome Ashley to the team at what is an exciting time...
Hillside Product Design, based in Teignmouth, Devon have been instrumental in designing the Xyloband led wristbands used by Coldplay at Glastonbury in June and on their current, and previous world tours.
Coldplay headlined the famous Glastonbury festival’s Pyramid stage to a crowd of over 100,000 waving their LED wristbands.
This was the fourth time the band have headlined the Somerset Festival. The enormous field lit by the audience made for a different experience making the entire area look, and feel part of a piece of artwork that the millions on TV could only admire...
East Devon District Council Chairman Cllr Stuart Hughes has thrown his weight behind a community’s fight to keep its Lloyds Bank branch.
Parishioners of St Andrew’s Parish Church in Colyton have written to the Chairman of Lloyds Bank, Lord Norman Blackwell, appealing to him in the strongest terms to keep their bank branch open.
In their letter, the rector of the church the Rev Hilary Dawson and her two church wardens Christine Sansom and David Fouracre, say: “It would appear in the world of big business, small is not beautiful: however, to a community like ours such a...
