A new interior design service for homeowners has opened in Sidmouth town centre.
Sarah Yates, an interior designer with 25 years’ experience, has recently relocated her interior design business to Sidmouth and set up a showroom in Potburys on the High Street.
Sarah Yates Interiors provides services ranging from complete interior design projects and home styling solutions to bespoke window dressings and furniture re-upholstering.
Sarah comments: “It’s great to be back in Sidmouth - the town where I grew up and where my family are still based. Having established the...
New research released today by the new car buying and selling website Carfused.com reveals just how dirty the nation’s cars really are. With the help of cleaning expert Kim Woodburn – from Channel 4’s How Clean is Your House? – Carfused.com swabbed 15 car interiors and sent the tests to The University of Nottingham’s Microbiology Investigation Centre for analysis with some shocking results.
Amid the shards of fingernails, pet hairs and crisp packets, the cars of students, parents, office workers and van drivers were all found to be contaminated by an array of microorganisms. This...
An organised crime group bringing class-A drugs from Liverpool to Devon have been sentenced to 140 years in prison at Exeter Crown Court today (Thursday 23rd July).
Nineteen people in total have been sentenced for conspiracy to supply class-A controlled drugs. 17 pleaded guilty with the remaining two found guilty following trial at Exeter Crown Court in March.
Throughout 12-month long Operation Reform, heroin and cocaine with an estimated street value of £1.25 million and cash in excess of £91,500 was intercepted.
The South West is getting set to go rugby crazy with the countdown to the first World Cup fixture in Exeter now well underway.
Tonga face Namibia in Pool C at Sandy Park on September 29 but there will be a sprinkling of international talent on show in the city before that to whet the appetite of rugby fans.
Former New Zealand Maori Brad Hepi and Welsh World Cup player Will James are two of the star names signed up to play in a charity tag rugby day in Exeter this weekend.
The Devon Rugby Legends Tag Feztival at Exeter Saracens on Saturday is raising awareness and...
The Grand Western Canal Country Park and Stover County Park have today (Thursday 23 July) been named among the best green spaces in the UK.
The parks, which are both managed by the County Council, are among a record-breaking 1,582 parks and green spaces across the country, and 90 in the South West, to be presented with the Green Flag Award.
The prestigious award from environmental charity Keep Britain Tidy, provides recognition that the Grand Western Canal Country Park, near Tiverton, and Stover Country Park, near Newton Abbot, are achieving the highest possible standards,...
Why has the sound of ping pong balls bouncing on tables, happy voices and shrieks of laughter become a familiar sound in city centres nationwide this summer? It’s all down to Ping!; the sensational public street festival which has taken the nation by storm once again! By placing 1,000 ping pong tables in the streets of 19 towns and cities, Ping! offers members of the general public the opportunity to pick up a bat and ball and enjoy the game and they have done so in their thousands; the free-to-use tables prove just too irresistible to pass by and as a result they’re used around the clock...
Members of the Devon Art Society will be displaying their finest works at St Annes Hall, Babbacombe Road, Babbacombe.
The show runs from Saturday 1 August through until Sunday 16 August and admission is free.
The exhibition covers classical themes with floral, still-life, figurative and landscape as well as seascape subject matters. There will also be some abstracts but much of the work covers beautiful scenes of the West Country. You will be able to enjoy some high quality paintings large and small at affordable prices.
Exeter Green Party says that if new rules adopted by the European Parliament are agreed by the European Commission, sending food waste to the Exeter’s energy from waste plant could become illegal.
The Parliament last week voted to end the incineration of all recyclable and biodegradable waste. http://www.greens-efa.eu/circular-economy-14330.html
Currently, food waste in the city makes up around 35% of ‘black bin’ waste and is incinerated at the £46m Marsh Barton energy from waste plant site.
Greens have long campaigned for food waste to be collected and processed...
Police are appealing for the public’s help in trying to locate some distinctive items stolen from the Exmouth area.
Two rings and an ornament (pictured) were stolen during a burglary at a house in the St John’s Road area between Monday 29 June and Tuesday 7 July.
The items are described as a white gold ladies wedding ring with diamond cut effect, a ladies vintage Art Deco style gold band, and a wind-up ornament.
Detective Constable Matthew Burnell, Honiton CID said: “The stolen items are very distinctive and are of huge sentimental value to the owners.
Devon public relations firm Tidy Eye PR has been appointed to provide services for TV legend and Thunderbirds co-creator Sylvia Anderson and film producer daughter Dee Anderson.