Field Day (Free subscription) | 16/10/2009
Bicton College farm manager Paul Redmore is set to become a children's TV star. The farm at East Budleigh in Devon was the location for CITV programme Farm Camp to be screened each weekday at 5pm from Monday October...
Budleigh & Brewster United - celebrating sisterhood! (Free subscription) | 30/08/2009
A US-born writer who has settled in Devon and become of the county’s best known historians will be holding a local history workshop in the picturesque village of East Budleigh on 5 September. (Left: East Budleigh's prettily twisting High Street with its many ancient thatched houses, looking down from the church) Dr Todd Gray was born and raised in the Massachusetts towns of Ipswich and Gloucester,...
Budleigh & Brewster United - celebrating sisterhood! (Free subscription) | 30/07/2009
The famous Millais painting of his boyhood, the Wall in Budleigh which bears his name, the picturesque Elizabethan farmhouse in East Budleigh where he was born… all these make Budleigh Salterton proud to be associated with Devon’s hero Sir Walter Raleigh. So it was an enthusiastic and interested audience in Budleigh’s Peter Hall which welcomed Ivan Roots, Emeritus Professor of History...
nufc1892 blog on Absolute Radio (Free subscription) | 27/07/2009
A village tea rooms owner in Devon has said she will be forced to close her business after a council ordered the removal of an advertising sign for health and safety reasons. Janice Voce was told the board pointing to her remote tea shop was a "potential hazard" to pedestrians, even though it was on an embankment with no footpath. Within days of taking it down she saw her takings slump to...
Budleigh & Brewster United - celebrating sisterhood! (Free subscription) | 05/07/2009
It seems so right that an exhibition about Sir Walter Raleigh, famous for his pioneering efforts to colonise the New World, should take place in the village where he was born, just the day after Americans celebrate their independence on 4 July. Left: The portrait of Sir Walter Raleigh in All Saints Church, East Budleigh, where he and his family worshipped Sir Walter was certainly a monarchist when...
Budleigh & Brewster United - celebrating sisterhood! (Free subscription) | 04/07/2009
Sir Walter Raleigh wishes all our US readers a Happy Independence Day from his birthplace in East Budleigh, Devon.
Budleigh & Brewster United - celebrating sisterhood! (Free subscription) | 28/06/2009
I’ve been asked to record my favourite walks by the pebble people at http://exmouthroadies.blogspot.com/2009/04/rolling-stone-survey.html I hope that this is the kind of thing they want. Other people might find it interesting anyway if they want to try a walk that they may not have done before. This could well be the first of various guided rambles that I’ll post exploring the beautiful...
Interesting Facts (Free subscription) | 24/01/2009
A £30,000 statue of Sir Walter Raleigh that stands in the Devon village of East Budleigh, his birthplace, was sponsored by British American Tobacco. (Raleigh brought tobacco from America, so I guess BAT are very grateful to him.)
Express & Echo (Free subscription) | 25/03/2008
Police are cracking down on speeding school buses in an area of East Devon. Buses have been clocked breaking the speed limit at East Budleigh, near Exmouth. Police with speed cameras checked vehicles travelling on the B3178 ...
Express & Echo (Free subscription) | 17/03/2008
The Sidmouth Donkey Sanctuary will be lending its donkeys to help out with numerous local Palm Sunday services in Devon. They will be making appearances at Lympstone, Colyton, Honiton, Tipton, East Budleigh, Kilmington and Axminster. ...
Express & Echo (Free subscription) | 28/02/2008
Today 12.30pm onwards, Fairtrade promotion by students in Exeter High Street. 9.30am - 12.30pm, Fairtrade East Devon Schools Conference, Bicton Agricultural College, East Budleigh. TOMORROW ...
Express & Echo (Free subscription) | 18/10/2007
Youngsters from a local wildlife group will be dressing trees, making haystacks and harvesting apples at a Devon college on Sunday. Children from the Devon Wildlife Trust's Exmouth watch group will be at Bicton College, near East Budleigh. ...
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