New research reveals Devon's top historical insults
Strumpets & Ninnycocks and How to Swear Like an Elizabethan in Devon, by Exeter University historian Dr Todd Gray. Picture: Contributed Exeter University historian Dr Todd Gray looked at hundreds...
View ArticleThis is what a 1million home in North Devon looks... 1
What does a million-pound home look like? The answer depends very much on whether you live in London or the rest of the UK. Land Registry records show a total of 934 houses, flats and commercial...
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Dublin. He is widely recognized as one of the greatest satirists in the English language.
View ArticleDigital arts firm behind plan to save old Barnstaple church
Conservationists are hoping to find a new use - and funding - to restore the former Catholic Church of the Immaculate Conception in Summerland Street, Barnstaple. Picture: Andy Keeble Chivenor-based...
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Ilfracombe health campaigners are inviting people to join them in "seeing red" in the town next weekend in the latest protest over hospital service cuts in North Devon. HEALTH campaigners are inviting...
View ArticleWe can have that wall
Recently a woman witnessed a motor vehicle accident and called the police for help. After several minutes of mutual puzzlement, the caller and the police dispatcher figured out they were 3,000 miles...
View ArticlePlans show access road to new Barnstaple homes will run through play area
More details have been revealed about proposals for the first of nearly a thousand new homes being planned at Westacott on the outskirts of Barnstaple. A masterplan outlining up to 153 homes - and...
View ArticleHate crimes in North and West Devon reached 95 last year 1
FIGURES released ahead of a national campaign to tackle hate crime revealed 95 occurrences across North and West Devon last year. Some police forces across the UK are seeing an increase in reports of...
View ArticleMotorists in North Devon and Torridge pay over the odds for car parking
Overspend in pay and display machines across North Devon and Torridge comes to some 60,000 a year - but where does it go? In the Torridge District Council area people paid extra for a pay and display...
View ArticleGet your hands on new life-saving' babygrow at Barnstaple Tesco
A new life-saving babygrow has been designed to help parents perform cardio pulmonary resuscitation on their baby if they stop breathing. Picture: Contributed A new babygrow has been designed to help...
View ArticleWoman and baby airlifted to hospital with 'life threatening'...
Police appeal for witnesses after woman and baby had to be cut from her car and airlifted to hospital with 'life changing' injuries. The crash between a car and a coach happened on the B3227 at...
View ArticleNew Petroc lifestyle building will officially open next week
The new Lifestyle Centre in Petroc at Barnstaple will open on October 20 including a spa, restaurant, hair and beauty salons and commercial kitchens. The new building houses state-of-the art facilities...
View ArticleBarnstaple hospital Friends fear health cuts
Fundraisers fear the threat of cuts to North Devon's health services could put a dent in their efforts to help others. The League of Friends of Barnstaple Hospital has raised almost A 2.5million since...
View ArticlePictures & video: Ilfracombe Sees Red
Ilfracombe formed a red line along the High Street today for the Sees Red event to protest against cuts to local health services. Led by the chant of 'They say cutback, we say fight back' the...
View ArticleBarnstaple flooded as North Devon faces high tides
Barnstaple county councillor Brian Greenslade said this was not the first time we had seen this happen: "On the last occasion tidal flaps not working properly were identified as a problem. "I am...
View ArticleVIDEO: Barnstaple drivers swerve to avoid flooding on road 1
Photographer Ryan Martin http://www.thatryanmartin.com/ captured the moment a car was forced to hit the brakes and swerve to avoid the water: Another of his videos shows water coming perilously close...
View ArticleBarnstaple mum's Halloween garden to raise funds for Children's Hospice South...
They are the work of Emma Parker-Jay, who has created her Halloween front garden to raise funds for Children's Hospice South West's Little Bridge House. The 29-year-old is inviting members of the...
View ArticleStagecoach South West has announced return fares on... 1
Stagecoach South West has today announced that return fares on Barnstaple buses will be scrapped by the end of the month. From Sunday, October 30, Stagecoach's North Devon fare zones will be adapted to...
View ArticleNorth Devon towns 'seeing red' this week in opposition to... 1
ILFRACOMBE was the latest town in North Devon to "see red" over proposed hospital cuts last weekend with hundreds of people lining the streets in bright red costumes. On Saturday October 22, Barnstaple...
View ArticleNorth Devon Food Fest in Barnstaple's Pannier Market... 1
Food producers and food fans gathered in the Pannier Market to enjoy a day of tasting and talking about recipes, treats and flavours. Since the festival began in 2008, event organisers have seen the...
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