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Legends Of Lockdown
Devon Life

Legends Of Lockdown

A new online exhibition features an array of Devon’s lockdown legends exploring their lives and communities during the pandemic restrictions

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4 mins  |
November 2020
Look Out For Intelligent Slime!
Devon Life

Look Out For Intelligent Slime!

Think you know your waxcaps from your dog vomit slime mould? Exmoor’s conservation team needs our help to record the pretty and the not-so-pretty wildlife living in this unique national park. finds out more

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5 mins  |
November 2020
Retirement redefined
Devon Life

Retirement redefined

Millbrook Village’s Leah Jackson talks to AMELIA THURSTON about how wellbeing and quality of life are at the heart of the later living community

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3 mins  |
November 2020
Look to the future
Devon Life

Look to the future

SU CARROLL talks to Sir Antony Gormley about his contribution to Devon’s artistic life

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4 mins  |
November 2020
Natural beauty
Devon Life

Natural beauty

Working with nature and the cycle of seasons, a new flower farm is blossoming in a fold of the beautiful River Teign valley

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5 mins  |
November 2020
THE DIARY
Devon Life

THE DIARY

SU CARROLL recommends the best events across the county this month

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10+ mins  |
November 2020
My kinda city...
Devon Life

My kinda city...

With the perfect balance of country and city life, Exeter still shines as the jewel of the West. STEPHANIE DARKES shares her insider insights into the city that stole her heart

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4 mins  |
November 2020
Letting themselves in for hard work...
Devon Life

Letting themselves in for hard work...

Renovating your entire house is tough. Renovating someone else’s seven-bedroom Grade-II listed Georgian farmhouse and turning it into a high-end holiday let is even trickier. CHRISSY HARRIS went to Kingston see how it’s done

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6 mins  |
November 2020
Lessons from history
Devon Life

Lessons from history

History author Ian Mortimer has taken readers on travels through time from the Middle Ages to the Industrial Revolution. STU LAMBERT asks him how our country and our county changed in Regency times

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4 mins  |
November 2020
A Reform character
Devon Life

A Reform character

The owner of North Devon’s longest standing brewery is about to take on a new challenge, as CATHERINE COURTENAY discovers

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4 mins  |
November 2020
Hallowe'en haunts
Devon Life

Hallowe'en haunts

To celebrate Hallowe’en, HAZEL SILLVER looks at the folklore of seven of the county’s most mysterious places

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4 mins  |
October 2020
Eating for Devon
Devon Life

Eating for Devon

This year, our choices about the food we buy and eat are more important than ever, as CATHERINE COURTENAY discovers.

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4 mins  |
October 2020
Picture perfect and so much more...
Devon Life

Picture perfect and so much more...

Cobbled streets, flower-strewn cottages and resident donkeys have helped Clovelly become ‘the most Instagrammable village in the UK’. But this place is much more than just a good photo opportunity, as CHRISSY HARRIS discovers

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6 mins  |
October 2020
Aspire to Astilbe
Devon Life

Aspire to Astilbe

A 30-year adventure to find and save a collection of plants has led to a prestigious award for one Devon gardener

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4 mins  |
October 2020
Talking up Torquay
Devon Life

Talking up Torquay

Torquay is a lively place in a beautiful location. So why don’t we shout about it more? CHRISSY HARRIS explains why it’s time to take this English Riviera town more seriously

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5 mins  |
October 2020
Stepping out
Devon Life

Stepping out

BECKY DICKINSON embraces the joy of walking on the South West Coast Path in North Devon

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4 mins  |
October 2020
Seeing stars
Devon Life

Seeing stars

Devon is home to an International Dark Skies Reserve, and this October sees plenty of opportunities to discover its moonlit secrets

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3 mins  |
October 2020
Beyond a virtual (art) world
Devon Life

Beyond a virtual (art) world

The future of the art world may reside online - but can you buy an artwork from the virtual world? One gallery is showing the rest how it is done

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5 mins  |
October 2020
Beaming with pride
Devon Life

Beaming with pride

Starter homes don’t usually look like this one. CHRISSY HARRIS went to visit an eye-catching barn conversion, created by a talented young couple

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6 mins  |
October 2020
A head start
Devon Life

A head start

Mary Pugsley MBE speaks to GLEN KING about the exciting expansion of Hair@theAcademy to new larger premises located in the heart of Exeter

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4 mins  |
October 2020
Plodding on
Devon Life

Plodding on

Retired policeman Peter Evans, 78, has clocked up more than 50,000 miles in the 24 years he’s been enjoying his daily walk across Dartmoor. CHRISSY HARRIS joined him (and just about kept up)

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6 mins  |
September 2020
Saving the Splendour of Exmoor
Devon Life

Saving the Splendour of Exmoor

The splendour of Exmoor National Park may appear timeless and untroubled,but a new book reveals the long and often bitter struggle conservationists faced to save the landscape from the twin threats of afforestation and the plough

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4 mins  |
September 2020
The write stuff
Devon Life

The write stuff

Lynda La Plante novelist, producer and writer of over 150 hours of television and 33 crime novels talks to JUDI SPIERS about her recent best seller Buried

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5 mins  |
September 2020
Spectacular sands and sea views
Devon Life

Spectacular sands and sea views

So much to do and see - but it’s the golden sands of Exmouth that provide the really big draw for SUE CADE

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4 mins  |
September 2020
Ten questions you must ask
Devon Life

Ten questions you must ask

As the property market takes on a new look post coronavirus lockdown, leading estate agent ROGER WILKINSON has drawn up a set of key questions for buyers

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6 mins  |
September 2020
Proud mum moment
Devon Life

Proud mum moment

This month Deborah Clark is reflecting on her son’s passing out as newly-qualified Royal Marine

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3 mins  |
September 2020
More than just food for the hungry
Devon Life

More than just food for the hungry

In his regular quarterly column for Devon Life, fundraising expert PAUL COURTNEY profiles a charity which has provided a vital lockdown lifeline

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4 mins  |
September 2020
Perfect Pairings
Devon Life

Perfect Pairings

From a beautiful and historic South Devon estate, food and drink alchemy is produced, as HARRY WILD discovers

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4 mins  |
September 2020
Labour of love
Devon Life

Labour of love

Getting together 40 years after they first met inspired Simon and Nikki Rice to create a truly remarkable coastal home, as CHRISSY HARRIS discovers...

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6 mins  |
September 2020
A floral feast
Devon Life

A floral feast

From cocktail bars to Bake Off, a Devon grower supplies gastronomes across the country with a feast of flowers – all of which are edible, discovers CATHERINE COURTENAY

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5 mins  |
September 2020

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