The curators of Tunes In The Dunes are holding a unique festival on one of the county's most loved beaches this summer. Over the 12th to the 14th of July, Tunes are bringing national and international artists to the beautiful Blackpool Sands beach in Devon. This year Tunes on the Sands will welcome KT Tunstall, Wet [...]
If you're a meat-eater, you need to consider carefully the source of the meat you buy It’s an emotive subject and there’s no doubt that the demand for meat is in decline. We’re regularly being told that gasses given off by our cattle herds are contributing to global warming, and that it’s environmentally unfriendly eating [...]
A new documentary, ‘Breakwater’, celebrates the South West’s efforts in leading a local-to-national scale reduction in marine litter, produced by Emma Askew I am a young environmental researcher, film-maker and South West rep for the national charity Surfers Against Sewage. My drive to produce my first documentary was cemented after I wrote to David Attenborough two [...]
CLEAN AIR DAY IS TODAY! New consumer research has shown that 57% of women spend more time in a car when heavily pregnant - likely to be a result of walking, cycling and using public transport becoming increasingly difficult. As pollution levels are nearly double inside a car compared to walking, this can be the [...]
Two pairs of rare Pied Flycatchers, which are on the ‘Birds of Conservation Concern’ red list, are successfully breeding at Lydford Gorge in Devon, thanks to work done by rangers at National Trust. They are further thrilled to have discovered that one pair of the birds, who were born in different parts of Devon, have [...]
