A garden which won awards at this year’s Chelsea Flower Show has found a new home in Plymouth. The Pathway Garden was inspired by the theme of homelessness and won the Silver-Gilt Medal and Best Environmental Innovation Award. It has been installed at the Shekinah centre – a charity which supports homeless people in Plymouth....
BBC A bumble bee at the Forest Garden on the Dartington Estate The creator of a forest garden in Devon, the oldest of its kind in Europe, says it is giving insights into how wildlife adapts to climate change. The self-seeding garden on Dartington Estate is managed by the Agroforestry Research Trust (ART) and contains...
The Englishman, born to a Albanian father and a British-Yemeni mother, became hooked on the sport when his mum brought him to a boxing gym aged five. “I was doing loads of sports at the time. But when I started sparring at about nine I just fell in love with it,” he says. “The first...
Peter Shuttleworth BBC News Reporting fromMerthyr Tydfil BBC Keen gardener John Watkeys has had to start his garden from scratch after losing part of it to the Heads of the Valleys upgrade John Watkeys used to love an evening cup of tea watching bats fly around his oak tree, but that part of his garden...
A fifth man has appeared in court charged with murder after the death of a 24-year-old man in Exmouth. Ben Helliker, 26, of Halsdon Road, Exmouth, has been accused of murdering Denva Smith on 31 May in the town. Helliker was jointly charged with the murder along with Zac Davies, 23, of Hawthorn Grove, Exmouth;...
Jeremy Ball Social affairs correspondent, BBC East Midlands BBC Armed police seized four kits containing guns, silencers, bullets and latex gloves Detectives have revealed how they uncovered a makeshift factory that produced lethal “assassination kits” for organised crime groups. Armed police arrested Ronald Knowles as he tried to burn a “treasure trove” of evidence in...
Four men have appeared in court charged with murdering a man who died in a garden in Devon. The 24-year-old man died from a stab wound in the garden of a property at Ashfield Close, Exmouth, on Saturday. Police were called at about 00:45 BST to reports of an assault. The man died at the...
A further four suspects have been arrested after the death of a man in Exmouth on Saturday. Officers were called at about 00:45 BST after they received reports a 24-year-old man had been assaulted and found in a garden of a property at Ashfield Close, Exmouth. He was pronounced dead at the scene, and three...
A homelessness charity in Devon has been given a garden which featured at the Chelsea Flower Show. Shekinah was selected to have the Pathway Garden once the show had finished on 24 May and a team has begun to install it in Plymouth. The garden was inspired by the work of UK-wide homelessness charity Pathway...
Two men have been arrested on suspicion of murder after a man died in a garden in Devon. Officers were called at about 00:45 BST on Saturday after they received reports a man in his 20s had been assaulted and found in a garden of a property at Ashfield Close, Exmouth. Emergency services attended but...
Stuart Maisner BBC News, South East RSPCA An RSPCA inspector used a car jack to try to free the deer A deer has been rescued after getting wedged between the metal railings of a garden gate. The animal got stuck after attempting to squeeze through the gate at a property in Banstead, Surrey, according to...
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Hartley, 26, could make his England return this week in the one-day international series against West Indies, which starts on Thursday at Edgbaston. He has had a decent start to the season with Lancashire but has still been putting in the hours amid the perennials. “It is a 5am or 5:30am wake-up, walk the dogs,...
Sofia Ferreira Santos BBC News NTB/Jan Langhaugvia via Reuters The huge ship crashed into a local resident’s front garden on Thursday The watch officer of a huge container ship that ran aground and crashed into a garden in Norway has told police he was asleep at the time of the incident. Investigators said the man,...
A man in Norway woke up to find a huge container ship had run aground and crashed into his front garden. The 135m-ship (443ft) missed Johan Helberg’s house by metres at about 05:00 local time (03:00 GMT) on Thursday. Mr Helberg was only alerted to the commotion by his panicked neighbour who had watched the...