On Saturday 24 January, local scout groups attended a Forester Badge day with the team at Knightshayes, the National Trust property on the outskirts of Tiverton.
2nd Tiverton scouts, Halberton and 1st Taunton scouts, Wilton took part in a number of forester activities in Impey wood, including felling and cutting back trees safely using tools like loppers and bow saws and planting sapling oak, birch and field maple trees.
Impey wood is currently undergoing a programme of regeneration, with the ranger team planning to replant 12,000 trees over the next three years. The local...
From a 150-year-old crinoline to a 60s mini, garments have shaped not only their owners but also the entire face of fashion.
Killerton’s latest costume exhibition ‘The F-Word: the changing language of fashion’ explores how fashion has responded to the latest innovations and made its mark across the centuries.
Zips, buttons, elastic – items now taken for granted were revolutionary in their day. They changed what could be worn and also helped people dress faster and with ease. And the language of fashion is often bound to the technology and materials used to produce it....
Thousands of items of counterfeit “Frozen” merchandise, including dolls and costumes, have been seized in Barnstaple and Ilfracombe by Devon and Somerset Trading Standards service.
Investigations are continuing, but the authorities have issued a warning , alerting people to the potential dangers.
“We are concerned that children could be playing with these potentially dangerous dolls or wearing costumes which are highly flammable,” says Councillor Roger Croad, Devon County Council’s Cabinet Member with responsibility for the Trading Standards service.
Businesses in the South West can get hands on practical advice about social media, working with the ‘cloud’, understanding analytics and the benefits of utilising other digital technologies at two separate events taking place in February. Specialist Business support services from Superfast Business, The Digital Marketplace, Heart of the South West Business Support and Get up to Speed, all delivered by Peninsula Enterprise, have joined forces to deliver Technology Mega Trends 2015.
Taking place in Barnstaple on Tuesday 24 February and Exeter on Thursday 26 February, business owners...
Devon Wildlife Trust is looking for friendly, enthusiastic and confident people to take on a new challenge in 2015, and help Devon’s biggest wildlife conservation charity recruit new members. The Membership Recruiter position has never been more valuable to DWT, as membership is the only reliable source of income for the charity to be able to continue helping wildlife in Devon. DWT’s 49 nature reserves across Devon provide habitats for a host of threatened and rare species including dormice, otters and greater horseshoe bats. Membership allows the charity to continue the habitat management...
Flybe today announces the appointment of Luke Farajallah as Chief Operations Officer. Luke joins Flybe on 1 April, 2015 from Bond Offshore Helicopters where he has been the Managing Director since 2012.
Luke has over 25 years of aviation experience having spent 17 years with British Airways in various operational roles. After BA, Luke held senior operations roles with a number of airlines in UK and Mainland Europe including Wizz Air and easyJet.
He is replacing John Palmer, current Director of Operations, who is leaving Flybe at the end of March to take up a role with...
Fifteen ancient skeletons have been discovered on an archaeological dig in Ipplepen, a major Romano-British settlement in Devon and now the best preserved Roman cemetery in the county.
University of Exeter archaeologists and a team of students and volunteers uncovered the human remains during an excavation of a Roman Road and found a roadside cemetery, the like of which has never been seen in the region. The significance of the discovery took on further importance when one of the skeletons was found to date from around 250 to 350 years after the Roman period, an era often referred...
Police are appealing for witnesses to a collision on the A38 near Exeter in which a man suffered serious injuries.
At around 8.55am on Sunday 8 February, a silver Vauxhall Corsa, travelling along the A38 northbound, left the carriageway on Haldon Hill and collided with a tree.
Extensive damage was caused to the car and the driver suffered serious head injuries.
The fire service, highways and an air ambulance were called to assist.
The 23-year-old male driver, from London, was taken by air ambulance to Derriford Hospital where he remains in a critical...
Connecting Devon and Somerset today announced it has achieved a major milestone in its rollout of superfast fibre broadband. More than 100,000 homes and businesses in the two counties now have access to fibre broadband as a result of the partnership, with nearly 90 per cent of those premises being able to connect to superfast speeds of 24Mbps or above. The news comes as the Government today announced that the nationwide rollout of superfast broadband has now reached more than two million homes and businesses1. Around 12,500 orders have already been placed since the beginning of this year...
