A Devon holiday park is set to open its doors all year round, launching a new pool membership as a thank you to local residents.
For the first time in its 73-year history, Ladram Bay Holiday Park, on the Jurassic Coast between Sidmouth and Budleigh Salterton, will open its swimming pool complex from November to March.
The redeveloped complex, including a main pool, children’s zone, sauna, steam room, Jacuzzi, gym and poolside café, will open at the family run park, which first saw campers pitch up in 1943.
Ladram Bay enjoyed its most successful summer this year,...
Andy Baylis a cricket coach from Exeter, was rewarded for his work promoting grassroots cricket after receiving the MCC Spirit of Cricket Award at the Chance to Shine Annual Awards last week (7th October).
The awards lunch at Nomura Bank in London celebrated and rewarded the achievements of people involved in the Chance to Shine Schools programme.
Special guests included England and Kent rising star Sam Billings alongside England women coaching ambassadors Tammy Beaumont and Kate Cross and Chance to Shine Vice-President Mark Nicholas who hosted the event.
Devon’s Job Seeker’s Allowance (JSA) claimants increased by 56 claimants between August and September 2015 to 3,297 claimants in total.
However, the overall claimant rate for Devon - the proportion of the county’s working age population - remains the same at 0.8 per cent, still far below the UK average of 1.7 per cent.
At a district level, Exeter and East Devon have experienced falls of 20 and 24 claimants each, while the remaining districts, with the exception of North Devon, experienced increases no higher than 15 claimants
Staff and patients at the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital have been showing their support for IPF Week 2015 (5th – 11th October) – a national campaign run by the British Lung Foundation (BLF) to raise awareness of a lung condition called idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF).
IPF, a type of Interstitial Lung disease (ILD), is a condition that causes scarring of the lungs. This build-up of scar tissue makes lungs stiff and less able to take in oxygen, so people with IPF often feel breathless from simple everyday activities. It has no known cause or cure and the number of people...
Top gardening tips to help the humble hedgehog will be on offer at a wildlife event this Saturday (October 17) at Seaton Wetlands.
East Devon District Council’s Countryside Team will be working in their wildlife garden from 10am to 2pm to improve the area for our prickly friends. Come along and learn about what hedgehogs need from a garden, and just why our gardens are increasingly important refuges for these wonderful creatures. There is even the opportunity to pre-book a hedgehog box kit to make and take home with you.
Steve Edmonds, EDDC Countryside team leader for sites...
Local business woman Sarah Wilde, 42 from Exminster, is excited for her highly anticipated TV debut since making the decision to swap her spatula for mascara.
Sarah, who once worked at a roadside café satisfying hungry tourists, now runs her own successful Avon business and is the star of a new Avon Cosmetics TV advertising campaign.
A self-confessed ‘workaholic’, Sarah lives and breathes Avon and wants to share her story to empower women everywhere.
The entrepreneur started her Avon business as a way to earn extra money alongside her job at the Transport Café. She...
The city dubbed too posh to have an Old Kent Road on its own official Monopoly board, launched today (Wednesday 14 October), is to be honoured with TWO "Mayfairs".
Exeter hit the national headlines earlier in the year, as social media went into overdrive, after it was claimed Devon’s ancient capital city was just too well-heeled to have its’ own equivalent of Old Kent Road. This square is the most moderately priced location on the world’s favourite family board game.
The Monopoly: Exeter Edition will be launched in spectacular style today, as a gigantic replica of the board...
The Christmas season starts with the delicious sights, smells and tastes of Exeter Street Food’s Christmas Markets.
The first market is being held at the Guildhall Shopping Centre every day from 1st December – 23rd December, with late night shopping every Thursday in December until 9pm. The ever-popular Christmas Night Markets will be held at Exeter Quay on Thursday 3rd December under the transit shed and on Wednesday 23rd December at Piazza Terracina. There will be live music from local musicians and jazz band The Locked horns. If you haven’t already joined the Street Food...
Two practical courses inspired by the displays at Exeter’s Royal Albert Memorial Museum (RAMM) are ideal people looking new outlets for their creativity.
The courses in jewellery making and stone carving start with a tour of the museum galleries to seek inspiration then continue at the Passmore Edwards Centre in Newton Abbot.
Jewellery in Metal for Beginners starts on Wednesday 21 October. Devon jewellery designer Naomi Davies leads the weekly sessions. Her work combines current fashion trends with timeless style to produce highly wearable art that shines with class,...
Members of the East Devon District Council Conservative Group were treated to a guided tour of Exmouth’s RNLI station on Saturday (10 October), including an in-depth look at the South West’s first Shannon class lifeboat – the R and J Welburn. They were shown around the lifeboat station by Coxswain Steve Hockings-Thompson and members of his volunteer crew. They started their visit by admiring the exterior of the building, which is an iconic modern landmark on Exmouth’s seafront, currently the subject of an ambitious regeneration programme. The group – pictured outside the main boathouse –...
