The Tellus South West survey has now started in Devon. It involves a small aircraft flying at low altitude over the landscape, gathering geophysical data from the air. The survey is progressing steadily eastwards across the region, and may make one or two overflights over your property, but once these are completed the aircraft will not return. The survey will collect data along parallel lines spaced every 200m, in a N-S direction. The survey will progress eastwards across Devon, flying over much of the county including the Plymouth, Bideford, Barnstaple, Okehampton and Totnes areas,...
Start from the café/old railway carriage, the Tarka Trial, Bideford, then enjoy the 10mile run or cycle to the Puffing Billy pub and back! Join organiser Claire Farrell for this great challenge, bring your friends and family and have some fun!
To participate you are kindly asked for a minimun donation of £3.00 per person on the day, but please be generous and give what you can!
Cant get involved? Why not make a donation to your friends or family who are taking on The 10mile Challenge!
All proceeds raised will really make a difference to the patients & families...
Haines Watts Rural Business LLP, sister firm to Bideford-based Chartered Accountants Haines Watts North Devon LLP, announce the appointment of Lucy Thomas as a farming consultant. Rural Business LLP agricultural consultants assist with decision making in response to ever-changing agricultural market conditions and cover all aspects of farm business management with clients across the South West.
A farmer’s daughter, Lucy graduated from Harper Adams with honours gaining experience in Land agency including Land Sales, Single Farm Payment and Planning when working for Rendells. Lucy...
At around 7.15am on Friday 22 March 2013 a serious road traffic collision took place involving two vehicles. Police have confirmed that the driver of the silver VW Polo, a woman in her forties from the Bude area, has been declared deceased at the scene by paramedics. Her next of kin have been informed but other family members are yet to be told.
A man, understood to be in his early forties and from the Bideford area, who was driving a Ford Maverick was air-lifted to Derriford hospital in Plymouth where he is said to be stable and not thought to have life-threatening injuries....
At just before 4am this morning, a total of 15 fire appliances from Bideford, Barnstaple, Hartland, Ilfracombe, Hatherleigh, Holsworthy, South Molton, Appledore, Torrington, and Honiton were mobilised to a thatched property on fire at Horns Cross, Bideford. Fire crews have managed to control the fire and prevent the spread to the adjoining properties.
The A39 is closed at this time.
Devon & Somerset Fire & Rescue report "Crews arrived at the scene and confirmed one thatched property was well alight. Crews got to work using two hose reel jets, two covering jets,...
Craig and Jamie Overton were back training at the County Ground in Taunton at the latter part of last week after spending the first three days working at Loughborough with the rest of the ECB Potential Emerging Players Programme squad.
The 18-year-old twins, whose home is at Northam near Bideford and who play their club cricket for North Devon, both signed full time contracts with Somerset after graduating from the Academy at the County Ground last summer. They have both made pretty rapid progress over the last 12 months, having played for England Under 19s and made their first...
An online comedic novel by Bideford author Tidy Eye called "I Hate Drunk Monkeys" is welcoming a unique new artist to its team this week.
Ronnie Wreath, who impressed the author and filmmaker his ink and Crow quill abilities, yes you heard that right, has hired Ronnie to scratch out his character's further escapades.
Ronnie is an illustrator, designer, and visual artist and says that he's been "sketching my thoughts and ideas ever since I was a kid. I'd love to doodle and sketch with ball point pens in school notebooks. At grad college I got...
Bideford-based Haines Watts North Devon LLP sponsors the Bideford and District Snooker League. Haines Watts recently celebrated national success being named as ‘Accountancy Firm of the Year – Small, Medium Size Entities (SMEs’) at the annual Financial Directors (FDs) Excellence Awards. It is a double celebration as the Haines Watts ‘Hustlers’ team from the 2013/14 season won the first division title.
Haines Watts Partner Jonathan Gifford together with work colleague Jamie Thompson and fellow ‘Hustlers’ team members have been playing together for 5 years. In two out of the last...
