Awards

Coleen Rooney has been named Ambassador of the Tesco Mum of the Year Awards 2014 and will help find incredible mums to be honoured at the awards ceremony next year.

Following in the footsteps of Denise Van Outen and Sara Cox, Coleen is encouraging the public to name the most deserving mums in the UK, who will be celebrated at a glittering star-studded luncheon at a luxury hotel in London the weekend before Mothers’ Day, next year. “Coleen was chosen to be our Ambassador because charity work lies very close to her heart. She manages to juggle a busy home life with two young boys...

The Magdalen Chapter in Exeter has been named as City Hotel of the Year. The announcement was made at a star-studded awards ceremony held at The Savoy Hotel in London on Monday 2 September.

General Manager Fiona Moores and Sales Manager Jo Thomas, from The Magdalen Chapter, joined hundreds of guests at the Food & Travel Magazine Readers Awards where the announcement was made. The Exeter hotel was one of six finalists in the City Hotel of the Year category. Other properties nominated include London’s Mandarin Oriental Hyde Park, The Savoy, The Arch London, The Zetter Townhouse...

Teignbridge has once again scored a hat trick in the prestigious Green Flag Award scheme.

The top quality trio, Decoy Country Park and Courtenay Park, Newton Abbot, and The Den, Teignmouth, have picked up the prestigious accolade, confirming them as among the best parks and open spaces in Britain.

The Green Flag is seen as the national benchmark for quality parks, and to win an award a place must perform well against eight set criteria:

• A welcoming place • Healthy, safe and secure • Clean and well maintained • Sustainability • Conservation and heritage • Community...

Shortlisted from 105 entries, an artwork developed for an exhibition at RAMM has won an international linocut prize.

Exeter-based artist Volkhardt Müller adapted 12 little plastic TVs with musical clockwork to play finely carved miniature lino cuts on a perpetual roll for the Witness Box display in the exhibition, Any High Street. More of Volkhardt’s work can be seen in the current display at RAMM by Devon-based artist collective Blind Ditch: This City’s Centre.

Volkhardt is thrilled that the 12 scenes of contemporary Exeter have gained international recognition “I was...