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We Are South Devon
Torbay Council appoints New Director of Children’s Services
Torbay Council has appointed Nancy Meehan as Director of Children’s Services. Th…
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Lightfoot and Turo announce strategic driver-safety partnership
Devon-based Lightfoot, the “Fitbit for cars”, and Turo, the world’s largest peer…
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Appeal for information on two separate assaults on women in Torquay
Police have appealed for information following two separate assaults on women in…
Torbay Council appoints New Director of Children’s Services
Torbay Council has appointed Nancy Meehan as Director of Children’s Services. This appointment follows her interim role …
Appeal for information on two separate assaults on women in Torquay
Police have appealed for information following two separate assaults on women in Torquay last week. The first incident …
Appeal for information following assault in Exeter
Police have appealed for information following a racially aggravated assault in Exeter at the weekend. A taxi driver of…
Guest Blog: Dance, Sing & Explore with Mini Music
My name is Fee, I am a Mum of two girls aged 6 and 3. I have always lived in Devon and within the Teignbridge area. I ha…
Over 50 homes affected by power cut in Torquay
52 homes in Torquay are without electricity today Monday, 17th February. Western Power Distribution have state that the…
Torquay’s Lost Harbour
If you drive along the Torbay Road from Torquay towards Paignton, through Livermead - from ‘laefer mead’, ‘the meadow of…
Power cut affecting homes in Newton Abbot
81 homes in Newton Abbot are without electricity today Sunday 16th February. Western Power Distribution have state that…
Road closed due to flooding
Dartmouth Road is currently closed due to flooding today, Sunday 16th February. The road is closed between Waterside …
Over 50 homes without power in Torquay
Over 50 homes in Torquay are without electricity today Saturday 15th February. Western Power Distribution have state th…
Rowcroft announce new coastal challenge walk
Rowcroft Hospice is proud to announce the launch of a new coastal challenge walk, D2D. The Dartmouth to Dawlish walking challenge will take place between Saturday 16 - Sunday 17 May, covering 34 miles…
Paignton Zoo breeds beautiful endangered lizard
Paignton Zoo in Devon has hatched three very special – and very beautiful - youngsters. Keepers are hand rearing a trio of Chinese crocodile lizards. In 2018, Paignton Zoo became the first major zoolo…
The Male Trail is back for 2020
Rowcroft Hospice is proud to announce that The Male Trail is back for a second year on Saturday 7th March 2020. After a successful first year, Rowcroft Hospice is calling upon the men of South Devon …
Tesco Bags of Help looking for grant applications in South Devon
Community groups and charities across South Devon are being invited to apply for thousands of pounds’ worth of funding through the Tesco Bags of Help scheme. Applications are now officially open fo…
Wild Planet Trust’s 2020 vision
A local conservation charity is looking forward to 2020, despite a challenging 2019.Wild Planet Trust is the Devon-based charity that runs Paignton Zoo, Living Coasts in Torquay and Newquay Zoo in Cor…
Nurses’ League donates to dementia-friendly hospital ward
A group of current and former nurses is helping improve the lives of patients with dementia and their families by donating memorabilia to a ward at Torbay Hospital which is run by Torbay and South Dev…
All creatures great and very, very small
This is an Nguru spiny pygmy chameleon. It’s just a few centimetres long. What could it possibly have in common with a black rhino? The answer is – Wild Planet Trust. The charity behind Paignton Zoo, …
Paignton Zoo says goodbye to lion Lucifer
Paignton Zoo is sad to announce that senior male lion Lucifer has had to be put to sleep. Zoo spokesperson Phil Knowling: “Lucifer was 17 years old, so he was a good age for an Asiatic lion. He was…
Thousands of meals donated by South Devon Tesco shoppers this Christmas
Thousands of meals have been donated to food banks and groups feeding people, thanks to the generosity of Tesco’s South Devon shoppers, figures released today reveal. South Devon shoppers donated 10,…
Conserving Torbay’s underwater rainforest
Devon conservationists and volunteer divers have completed a successful year tending to a very special local species. Staff from Living Coasts, Torquay’s coastal zoo, supported by seagrass project div…
Tesco adopts sunflower lanyard to help customers with hidden disabilities
South Devon Tesco stores will be providing sunflower lanyards to promote disability inclusion for customers and colleagues in 2020. This comes after the supermarket chain become a signatory to the Va…
How to train your…
If animal training makes you think of tricks and shows, think again. Top zoos use training to improve animal welfare, reduce the need for risky general anaesthetics and to keep both animals and people…
Prostitution in Torquay- a brief history
It's the oldest profession in the world and Torquay has always had its ‘Ladies of the Night’, prostitution often being t…
Derek Acorah & Terror in Torbay
It has just been announced that the TV mystic Derek Acorah has died aged 69. Derek found fame as a spiritual medium and…
‘The Trial of Christine Keeler’ – the Torquay link
Beginning on Sunday 29th December at 9pm on BBC One is 'The Trial of Christine Keeler'.Starring Sophie Cookson, James No…
Guest Blog: Help us keep our family together
Becoming a new mother is arguably one of the most beautiful, but stressful things in which a young w…
Guest Blog: Bell Ringing For Brexit – A Terrible Idea
The time is nearly upon us: The 31st of January will be the day the UK departs from the European Uni…
Guest Blog: How I wrote my first Children’s book
My name is David Pearson, I’m 62 retired Electrical Wholesaler, I live in Torquay.I first came down …
Guest Blog: Emotional Politics
Once, when I was a teenager delivering newspapers in Dartmouth, a woman whose paper I delivered invi…
Guest blog: Life After Brexit
For a while there, it looked as though Brexit might actually be done and dusted. Boris Johnson’s dea…
Guest blog: Our Daily Bread
On a chilly Saturday in mid-October, I walked into town to visit the Dartmouth Food Festival. The to…
Lightfoot and Turo announce strategic driver-safety partnership
Devon-based Lightfoot, the “Fitbit for cars”, and Turo, the world’s largest peer-to-peer car-sharing platform, which has over 10,000 vehicles listed in the UK, have announced that they are working tog…
Find skilled candidates at the Torbay Jobs Fair
Promote your job vacancies and talk to up to 700 candidates at the Torbay Jobs Fair.The Jobs Fair is at the Riviera International Conference Centre, Torquay on Friday 13 March. The event is one of th…
National success for Torquay opticians
TORQUAY Willows Specsavers has issued a huge thank-you to its South Devon customers after they helped it be named the second-best opticians in all of England.The store was shortlisted among only five …
Institute of Advanced Automotive Propulsion Systems champions Lightfoot
Chudleigh-based Lightfoot, the award-winning driver behaviour technology and rewards platform have been heralded as a game-changer for modern fleet vehicles by the Institute of Advanced Automotive Pro…