sidmouth

The National Trust in East Devon is on the lookout for new volunteers to help manage some amazing countryside and coast. Whether you love getting your boots muddy and being active rain or shine, or are more at home welcoming visitors, we are seeking people with a passion for their local area.

Find out more at one of our volunteer open days on Sunday 8 March or Saturday 11 April at Branscombe Village Hall.

The National Trust team is based at Branscombe, nestled between Sidmouth and Beer, but covers a much wider area from Honiton to Exmouth. Caring for cliffs, hill forts,...

Coastal process and engineering experts will present baseline reports at second steering group meeting today (24 February)

Members of the Steering Group for the Sidmouth & East Beach Management Plan (BMP) project will be meeting at East Devon District Council’s offices at the Knowle on Tuesday 24 February to discuss the findings of four key baseline reports – Coastal Processes (including cliff evolution), Coastal Defence Works, Environmental Issues and the Economics – upon which the rest of the project will be based. The project was commissioned by the council in partnership...

East Devon District Council has now completed work on the coastal defence beach recycling project at Sidmouth’s main beach, with the exception of clearing some drains that had filled with pebbles as the beach levels rose, and the reinstatement of a boulder into a rock groyne.

The work, which began on 5 January, was finished well within the original estimated time frame of six weeks and has restored the beach’s profile back to a healthy level with a protective blanket of shingle.

However, this is not about making the beach look pretty. For over 20 years the shingle has...

Police have released images of some unique jewellery stolen from Sidmouth.

A man broke into the JBM jewellers in Church Street around 3.30am on Monday, January 19th, smashing a front door and a number of display cases.

A quantity of gold jewellery was stolen including four very distinctive rings.

The rings each have an opal in with a number of diamonds on the sides and are hallmarked with the jeweller’s specific mark.

The suspect is described as a white man who was wearing a coat with a hoodie underneath and a baseball cap.

Police are keen to hear...

The Donkey Sanctuary is this week celebrating the 50th birthday of Tessa, its oldest donkey!

Tessa arrived at The Donkey Sanctuary in 1985. She has since spent 30 years living happily on its farms with various donkey friends. With the average UK donkey life expectancy at 27, Tessa has outlived many of her peers- but she is still going strong!

Born in 1965 amid The Beatles and Top of the Pops era Tessa has a zest for life, a healthy appetite and a love of being groomed. She lives amongst a group of 27 donkeys and is friendly with all of them, and she has a favourite...

The Donkey Sanctuary, Sidmouth has teamed up with local woodland co-operative AxeWoods to offer local people the chance to collect free firewood for a limited period this month.

Recent coppicing operations at one of The Donkey Sanctuary’s farms in Sidmouth have produced a large volume of willow that the charity is offering to local people to collect for firewood on key dates at the end of January.

Events and Wildlife Manager for The Donkey Sanctuary, James Chubb, explains: “After coppicing an area of our willow beds we’ve now got a great stack of wood that we’d like to...

East Devon District Council cabinet has recommended that an extensive refurbishment and replacement programme be put in place to improve the current provision of its popular beach huts and chalets at Sidmouth, Exmouth, Budleigh Salterton, Seaton and Beer.

To ensure the economic viability and sustainability of the beach huts, as an enduring local amenity, a sinking fund of £19,000 will be established, which will enable new beach hut schemes to be created. It will also mean that old huts, which have reached the end of their life, can be replaced.

The current management of all...