Do you have IT skills that you could use to help others? And a do you have a bit of spare time? If you do, Healthwatch Torbay’s exciting new Digital Inclusion Project needs you! Although we’re l…

‘What people forget is just how lonely life can be for a carer.’ Those words, spoken by a carer I spoke to recently, are echoed in Healthwatch Torbay’s recent Carers Report. Caring for a loved o…

It’s Spring - a time for births and beginnings. At Paignton Zoo, bird keepers are busy overseeing a whole clutch of hatchings. The season isn’t fully underway yet, but already staff have crested pige…

Yesterday, 800 participants took part in a 5k route along Teignmouth Beach whilst being showered in two tonnes of rainbow-coloured powder paint. The fundraising event has pledged to raise an incred…

Paignton Zoo has become the first zoo in the country to breed a tiny tortoise on the edge of extinction. The secret? A fine blend of driving passion and cool-headed science. The spider tortoise (Pyxi…

Rowcroft Hospice is reaching out for people who need to make or update their Will to do so during its Make a Will Week, from Monday 14 – Friday 18 May 2018. Throughout Make a Will Week, local solic…

Zoos are all about exotic species – aren’t they? Well, three top local zoos are doing their bit to highlight the importance of native species. Paignton Zoo Environmental Park, Living Coasts in Torqua…

Rowcroft’s novel fundraising event, Jail or Bail, saw local business men and women raise an incredible £8,000 during their time in ‘prison’ to help support local people living with life-limiting illne…

A sickly African penguin chick has been nursed back to health with fish soup by dedicated zoo keepers. Staff at Living Coasts, Torquay’s coastal zoo and aquarium, have been feeding the chick every 3 …

A local hospice who supports more than 2,000 patients and their families in South Devon each year has received a boost from one of Torquay’s major shopping centres. Rowcroft Hospice was chosen by U…

Paignton Zoo has just bred a rare and unusual lizard for the very first time. The Solomon Islands skink is also known as the prehensile-tailed skink, or the monkey-tailed skink… or the giant skink… or…

A coastal conservation charity is calling on people to come and try their hand at plastic surgery. Staff from Living Coasts, Torquay’s coastal zoo and aquarium, are running a series of beach cleans…

Conservationists in Torquay have turned marine waste into thought-provoking art. A new installation at Living Coasts, Torquay’s coastal zoo and aquarium, combines education, plastic waste and inspi…