Contractors have been at work in Clayhidon turning a four-acre field into a quagmire. Instead of improving the drainage they are ruining it, digging up the old pipes and trying to make sure it floods when it rains.
Campaigners in Devon and Somerset want better broadband now, not in the future, and say there are only two weeks left to challenge secretive county council bureaucrats.
Rona Moberly writes: Responding to the recent call for volunteer litter-pickers I set out with my neighbour, Zelda Gray, armed with the requisite heavy-duty gloves and bin bags to attack our allocated area.
RONA MOBERLY WRITES: Johnny Griss was a local legend in the Bolham valley and it was extremely generous of him to leave all his assets to the Parish.
Beavers have been trying to colonise the River Culm 400 years after they were hunted to extinction in England, says Jake Chant, beaver field officer for Devon Wildlife Trust.
A message from the NHS in Devon: Vaccination is the way of out lockdown and the pandemic. An effective vaccine is the best way to protect people from coronavirus.
Graham Dewick, who lived in Higher Heazle, Clayhidon for much of his retirement, died on December 1.