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More than 4,000 tench and bream were released into the Tiverton Canal this week to help replace fish lost following a spectacular bank collapse near Halberton in November 2012.

Thousands of fish including pike, perch, bream, tench, roach and eels were washed out of the canal after a section of bank gave way following torrential rain. Water from the canal flooded surrounding fields creating a temporary lake.

Environment Agency officers assisted by members of the Tiverton Angling Club launched an emergency rescue and successfully returned more than 400 fish to the canal, but...

As British households prepare to face the cold winter, new research reveals 3,000 households in Tiverton and Honiton are eligible for assistance from their energy supplier with heating their homes. The findings from Home Heat Helpline show that a total of 3.6 million households across Great Britain qualify for help.

8 percent of homes in Tiverton and Honiton are entitled to relief from energy companies this year. Households that qualify include low income pensioners, disadvantaged families with children or those with a disability, or any household that lives in one of the most...

West Country Beef and West Country Lamb will become protected names across Europe from next year onwards.

Meat produced in six south west counties including Devon will receive the same protected status as Jersey Royal Potatoes, Scottish Wild Salmon and Cornish Clotted Cream through a Protected Geographical Indication (PGI).

The PGI means local goods will be given legal protection against imitation that will help them build a brand name without its reputation being damaged by inferior products.

Farmers and producers have welcomed the news which will see West Country...

Neil Parish, MP for Tiverton and Honiton, has pledged his support for Halve It, a national coalition campaign that aims to halve late diagnosis and undiagnosed HIV in the UK by 2015.

At the Halve It World AIDS Day parliamentary drop-in session on the 27 November, Neil met with key members of the campaign’s steering group, including leading HIV clinicians, and CEOs of patient and policy organisations. He discussed with them Halve It’s aims and achievements to date, and the campaign’s compelling case for HIV to remain a public health priority in the UK. The event, which marked the...

Knightshayes, a National Trust property on the outskirts of Tiverton is looking for feedback from dog walkers, runners and den builders alike.

Newly-appointed Senior Ranger, Raef Johnson, is looking to meet and get to know as many users of the grade II listed parkland and woods as possible when he hosts two walks in December.

Knightshayes has recently seen the creation of a new ranger team, whose role it is to care specifically for the park and woodland areas of the estate. Raef joined the team at the end of October, after a number of years working for the Forestry...

Get your Christmas shopping off to a flying start at Knightshayes’ annual Christmas Craft and Food Fair on Saturday 16 and Sunday 17 November, 10am-4pm. For the first time this year, a number of local food producers are displaying their delicious goodies, alongside a brilliant selection of hand-made crafts at the Victorian Gothic National Trust house near Tiverton. Elaine Vergette from Knightshayes, who is helping to organise the Fair, said: "We’ve run a successful Christmas Craft Fair here at Knightshayes for a few years now, but this year we’ve decided to focus on local, hand-made,...

Last night, Neil Parish MP, presented the Rural Fair Share Petition signed by the residents of Tiverton and Honiton. The Rural Fair Share campaign is calling on the Government to address the ongoing disparity in funding between rural and urban areas.

The campaign is set up to counter policies such as the rural penalty which sees urban areas receive 50% more support per head than rural areas. The Campaign is set up by a group of MPs which regularly argue for a fairer funding balance between urban and rural areas. The group’s Secretary Graham Stuart MP, said: "The Rural Fair Share...

If you go down to the gardens at Knightshayes this half term, you’ll be in for a big surprise.

With giant spiders, ghostly figures and busy gardeners, the National Trust team on the outskirts of Tiverton have lots on to see the summer out and the winter in.

Along with the popular annual trail around the gardens from 26 October to 3 November, there will also be craft activities and a face painter from 29 to 31 October. Both children and adults will have the chance to get their hands dirty in the formal garden, as the team attempt the mammoth task of planting over 10,000...