Every Hut’s a Castle: The hugely popular competition celebrating the UK’s iconic and much-loved coastline havens has returned for its second year, with Beach Hut insurance specialists, Ryan’s Insurance inviting owners to enter to win over £1000 of prizes.
This year, in collaboration with both Millie’s Beach Huts, and the bestselling British author and scriptwriter, Veronica Henry, the competition is calling on the UK’s 20,000-plus beach hut owners to compete to become the prestigious winner of the ‘Ryan’s Beach Hut of the Year 2021’ – with entries judged on beach hut uses and the...
A planning application has been submitted for the next phase of the Teign Estuary Trail.
Devon County Council has been supported by Teignbridge District Council in preparing the proposals to develop a 5km section of multi-use trail between Passage House Inn in Newton Abbot and the A381 at La Roche Maurice Walk, east of Bishopsteignton.
The Trail will also include a shared-use path connecting from the A381 to the junction near Morrisons supermarket, at the western edge of Teignmouth. However further design work is being undertaken on this link which does not require...
Stagecoach South West has announced the appointment of new operations director, Katie Wagstaff to join their senior management team.
Katie began her career as a graduate trainee at Stagecoach South in 2014 and has since worked in various management roles within the Stagecoach London business and was previously Operations Manager for Basingstoke. She will be responsible for the South West operations which includes 917 drivers and 348 buses and coaches spanning over 111 routes and over 16 million miles a year. She replaces Paul Clark, who left at the end of May 2021 to take a new...
German Doner Kebab has opened its doors in Exeter, bringing a new fast-casual dining experience to the city.
The restaurant is located at 177-181 Fore St and opened on May 31st, creating in the region of 40 new jobs for the local area.
German Doner Kebab Exeter will offer a full Dine-In experience, plus Takeaway with Click & Collect and Delivery coming soon.
German Doner Kebab is revolutionising the kebab in the UK, bringing a fresh, high-quality taste sensation that has made it the number one spot to enjoy a kebab.
It’s likely that this summer will largely be spent in the UK, so what better way to make the most of it than packing up the car and heading for some of the beautiful scenery the British Isles has to offer?
Based on recent figures, it is also likely that many will be loading up the Sat Nav ahead of their journey in an electric vehicle (EV). Official government figures from the start of 2021 put over 150,000 zero-emission battery electric vehicles on the UK's roads - an increase of almost 100,000 since 2019. Plug-in hybrid and range-extended electric vehicles have also seen a...
The impact from COVID and a government review of how cider is taxed was the focus for Simon Jupp’s visit to Darts Farm. Simon met with Sandford Orchards owner Barny Butterfield, Michael Dart from Darts Farm and Mark Hopper from the National Association of Cider Makers (NACM) at a public event held by Darts Farm.
After being given a tour of Darts Farm’s new restaurant & cidery, The Farm Table, and learning more about the cider industry, Simon listened to concerns about cider makers’ tanks remaining largely blocked with the 2019 and 2020 harvests, which may need to be destroyed...
Tickets have gone on sale for Budleigh Music Festival which will be held from 9 - 17 July after a break last year due to Government restrictions. A week-long programme of live classical music will be held in the town, this year accompanied by incredible sensory art installation, Colourscape.
Immersive experience
As well as a star-studded line up of world-class musicians, this year’s festival will see the launch of Colourscape, an immersive experience of colour, light and music, taking the form of a walk-through installation on The Green. Interlinked chambers of intense...
A Devon-based, award-winning coffee pod producer is breaking into the Chinese market with its eco-friendly, compostable coffee capsules made from wood and bark.
Blue Goose’s coffee pods are now selling in China online through the Great British Food Store on the country’s largest social media platform, WeChat.
The Great British Food Store just set up by Business West, one of the UK’s largest Chambers of Commerce, is already selling 20 UK food and drink brands on WeChat which has a user base of 1.2 billion.
Lex Thornley, co-founder of Blue Goose, based in Exeter...
Volunteers are being sought in Devon to help two leading charities support children and families this summer.
From 15-17 July, charities FareShare and the Trussell Trust will be collecting long-life food in Tesco’s large Devon stores as part of a special Food Collection to support children and families throughout the summer holidays.
Food donated by Tesco customers during the collection will go to support food banks in the Trussell Trust’s network and to local charities supplied by FareShare, including holiday clubs providing healthy meals and activities to youngsters...
Three quarters of adults in Devon have now had their first dose of the Covid-19 vaccine.
More than 750,000 first doses had been given up to 23 May and almost half a million second doses.
The milestone has been reached less than six months since the first vaccine was administered in Devon on 8 December 2020 to 81-year-old Kathleen Viney.
Since then vaccines have been delivered in a huge variety of places, including a mosque, bus, sports centres and grounds, a garden centre, pub, pharmacies, a town hall, hospitals and events venues.
