Police are appealing for information about a missing teenage boy who was last seen near the River Dart in Totnes.
Officers have been searching for 16-year-old Nathan Wood, from the Paignton area, after he went missing while out with a group of female friends on Friday 5 August.
Nathan was last seen in the Swallowfields area of Totnes, at the Dartington Hall end of the River Dart and the back of King Edward the Sixth Community College, at around 6pm.
Local officers have been searching the area, with assistance from a dog unit, the police helicopter, police divers,...
To honour the 400th anniversary of William Shakespeare, The Festival Players Theatre Company is bringing one of the Bard’s most famous plays, Hamlet, to Powderham Castle on Wednesday 17 August.
Thought to have been first performed in 1600, Hamlet is considered the greatest tragedy in the English language. The gripping production will be performed in the atmospheric courtyard of Powderham Castle, by The Festival Players Theatre Company, a professional theatre company from Gloucestershire who have been touring Shakespeare’s plays for 30 years. For this production, musical...
East Devon’s Community Development team arrange for Honiton SWITCH club members to take on team building challenges in Snowdonia
Two Community Development Workers from East Devon District Council, Alex Gibson and Mark Gerry, have taken a group of seven very excited young people from the council’s Honiton SWITCH club to Snowdonia National Park to take part in a number of team building challenges.
The group departed on Monday August 1 for the Welsh mountains, where they will join the Outward Bound programme, which is recognised as an excellent opportunity for people to...
The Connecting Devon and Somerset (CDS) Voucher Scheme is shaping up to be one of the most successful in the country, according to BDUK with residents and businesses across Devon and Somerset taking advantage of the scheme to boost broadband connectivity. More than 1600 applications have been made to the CDS voucher scheme and 1100 of these have been approved. Over 100 installations have been carried out to date with many more in the pipeline. A wide range of broadband technologies have been used so far including, satellite, 4G and fixed wireless solutions. One of the early beneficiaries...
With the holiday season now in full swing and families no doubt brimming with excitement, acts of terror in France and Turkey recently, the demise of Low Cost Holidays and of course travel restrictions still in place to Tunisia following the tourist massacre in 2015, tourists will no doubt have some concerns about holidays.
Litigation Partner and travel lawyer, Ian Brown from Trowers and Hamlins, gives some useful tips to ensure your travel plans don't grind to a halt…
Make sure you take insurance as soon as you book your holiday, if you don't have an annual policy.
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...
