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Get On Your Bike In Our Cycle City
Devon Life

Get On Your Bike In Our Cycle City

Bike-friendly Exeter is a great place to explore on two wheels. CHRISSY HARRIS talks to the cyclists helping to promote pedal power in the city

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March 2018
Annie Get Your Gun!
Devon Life

Annie Get Your Gun!

Devon lady guns is a group of female sharpshooters with their sights set on attracting new members and encouraging more women to take up the pastime. Sharon goble got fired up to meet them.

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March 2017
Turning Exeter Green
Devon Life

Turning Exeter Green

A verdant hue is spreading across exeter...We have the devon wildlife trust’s emily stallworthy and her army of volunteers to thank, writes Fran Mcelhone.

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March 2017
Counting on Caroline
Devon Life

Counting on Caroline

In the latest in her series throughout 2017 profiling inspirational women, KATE HASKELL talks to someone who is debunking the myths about her profession

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February 2017
Ready for Valentine's Day?
Devon Life

Ready for Valentine's Day?

Our columnist isn’t raising her romantic expectations too high

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February 2017
Fashion & Femininity
Devon Life

Fashion & Femininity

A new fashion exhibition at a landmark Devon National Trust property will give a timely insight into the links between fashion and suffrage

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February 2018
The Branscombe Project
Devon Life

The Branscombe Project

Branscombe residents have seen it all over the years: smugglers, ghosts and one of the most extraordinary shipwrecks the world has ever seen. CHRISSY HARRIS meets a woman helping to preserve the history of this fascinating village…

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February 2018
Recycling, Back To Its Roots
Devon Life

Recycling, Back To Its Roots

Donkeys are helping gardeners, as ELIZABETH EDWIN explains

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February 2018
Help Save Our Crayfish
Devon Life

Help Save Our Crayfish

A call has been made for the public to help save the white-clawed crayfish which is at risk of global extinction. KATE WILLIAMS finds out why

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February 2018
Snowdrops In All Their Glory
Devon Life

Snowdrops In All Their Glory

A North Devon garden comes into its own during winter

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February 2018
Marvellous Mr Pickle
Devon Life

Marvellous Mr Pickle

BELINDA JONES meets the rescue rascal that inspired an Ashburton artist to go time-travelling!

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April 2017
Seize The Day
Devon Life

Seize The Day

Eaten too much? Bored of charades? It’s time to wrap up and get out there. CHRISSY HARRIS looks at what you could do on Christmas Day in Devon

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December 2017
A Festive Foodie Production
Devon Life

A Festive Foodie Production

NATALIE MILLAR-PARTRIDGE hears about the curtain going up on a unique Devon dining experience in the run-up to Christmas

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December 2017
Fond Christmas Memories
Devon Life

Fond Christmas Memories

Pat Keenor is a well-known Devon journalist who brings her wit and wisdom to our pages every month

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December 2017
Festive Feathered Friend
Devon Life

Festive Feathered Friend

Tony Jackson reveals why the robin is a bird forever associated with Christmas

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December 2017
Christmas Traditions
Devon Life

Christmas Traditions

PHILIP DALLING looks forward to another festive season made all the merrier by mummers and carolers

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December 2017
Little Jenny Wren
Devon Life

Little Jenny Wren

For a tiny bird the wren has an extraordinary loud voice.

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December 2017
A Not-So-Secret Society
Devon Life

A Not-So-Secret Society

There are some 5,500 freemasons across 138 lodges in devon. But how much do we know about them? As freemasonry celebrates its 300th anniversary, chrissy harris went to meet some members of this fascinating organisation.

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April 2017
A Spoonful Of Toads' Elixir Keeps The Colic At Bay
Devon Life

A Spoonful Of Toads' Elixir Keeps The Colic At Bay

This month our columnist Pat Keenor  is looking into ancient remedies...And isn’t liking what she finds.

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April 2017
Doggie Heaven In South Devon
Devon Life

Doggie Heaven In South Devon

If you want to take your dog out for the day, head for the South Hams.

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August 2017
Forging Ahead
Devon Life

Forging Ahead

A 300 year old forge on Dartmoor has been restored to its former glory and is back in business. SHARON GOBLE went to Widecombe to meet farrier Nick Rule

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August 2017
A Whole Branch Of A Species To Ourselves...
Devon Life

A Whole Branch Of A Species To Ourselves...

IAN PARSONS reveals that Devon is home to its own native tree – with a quirky explanation for how it got its name

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August 2017
Truckling With Joy
Devon Life

Truckling With Joy

As Quicke’s Cheese launches a groundbreaking partnership with a Cornish food producer, CATHERINE COURTENAY heads to the farm to meet its inspirational figurehead

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August 2017
Pathway Of Prosperity
Devon Life

Pathway Of Prosperity

CATHY SAYERS reveals how a noble family commissioned the building of a drive stretching nine miles around a beautiful part of the South Devon coastline

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August 2017
Schooled In Performances
Devon Life

Schooled In Performances

SU CARROLL goes behind the scenes and talks to the Artistic Director of Dartington’s programme of summer events

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August 2017