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Road closed due to major landslip
The A381 Totnes Road is currently closed in both directions due to a landslip ne…
Road closed due to major landslip
The A381 Totnes Road is currently closed in both directions due to a landslip near Brutus Bridge this evening, Friday 28…
Sight saved following a routine eye test
A Paignton woman whose sight was saved by specialist Specsavers staff is now urging people to get their eyes tested.Liz …
Get a taste of hi-tech at South Devon College’s new Centre
South Devon College are proud to be hosting a range of fun, hands-on one-day ‘Tech Tasters’. These taster days aim to in…
Scientists of the future get behind-the-scenes look at the Environment Agency
Young scientists from Newton Abbot’s pioneering technical college discovered how the Environment Agency deals with extre…
Hydration awareness aims to reduce residents’ falls
A project to improve the health of care home residents in Torbay and South Devon by ensuring they drink enough is aiming…
£20m to connect communities across the country with new railway stations
Government focused on strengthening rail connections by investing in new and restoring disused stations Part of Governm…
Man charged following hit-and-run in Torquay
A man from Paignton has been charged in connection with a hit and run in Torquay. Four pedestrians, all aged 18 were …
Colour Out Of Space- HP Lovecraft & South Devon
Just released is 'Colour Out of Space', a new Nicolas Cage movie. This is a science-fiction horror movie about a meteor …
Business Zone: The At Home Dental Experience
Your Local Mobile Dentist At Home Dental is a unique dental service that delivers a full range of dental services direc…
Doh! Homer’s keepers are seeing double at Paignton Zoo
How many lobsters are there in this picture? One – because the “other one” is the hollow, hard outer shell of a lobster, known as an exoskeleton. Keepers at Living Coasts, Torquay’s coastal zoo, ha…
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…
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: The 400th Anniversary of the Plymouth Pilgrims in Mayflower
Abbie Hoskin is an English & History Student at the University of Plymouth. Today, she invites u…
Guest Blog: Overcoming Drug Addiction – My Story
Allow me to introduce myself properly, my name is Gemm and if you’ve been following We Are South Dev…
Guest Blog: Dealing with Grief & Loss
Katie McCooey-Hall is a 19 year old adolescent who, originally from Brixham, has recently come to th…
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 …
Edgars Water slashes fuel bills while cutting instances of dangerous driving to zero
Edgars Water, one of the largest suppliers of hydration solutions in the UK, has announced the successful installation of Lightfoot’s award-winning in-cab technology across its fleet of 60 vans. Using…
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 …