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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
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.
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.
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
Ready for Valentine's Day?
Our columnist isn’t raising her romantic expectations too high
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
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…
Recycling, Back To Its Roots
Donkeys are helping gardeners, as ELIZABETH EDWIN explains
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
Snowdrops In All Their Glory
A North Devon garden comes into its own during winter
Marvellous Mr Pickle
BELINDA JONES meets the rescue rascal that inspired an Ashburton artist to go time-travelling!
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
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
Fond Christmas Memories
Pat Keenor is a well-known Devon journalist who brings her wit and wisdom to our pages every month
Festive Feathered Friend
Tony Jackson reveals why the robin is a bird forever associated with Christmas
Christmas Traditions
PHILIP DALLING looks forward to another festive season made all the merrier by mummers and carolers
Little Jenny Wren
For a tiny bird the wren has an extraordinary loud voice.
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.
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.
Doggie Heaven In South Devon
If you want to take your dog out for the day, head for the South Hams.
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
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
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
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
Schooled In Performances
SU CARROLL goes behind the scenes and talks to the Artistic Director of Dartington’s programme of summer events