Business

Ashfords LLP's multi award-winning conveyancing team has gained further recognition for the quality of its service at the 2012 Equity Release Awards, which took place at the end of last month (note: 27 November) at Merchants Taylors’ Hall in London.

The firm’s Equity Release team, led by Partner Peter Barton, was the overall winner in the National Equity Release Conveyancing category, beating Equilaw and Goldsmith Williams to win the award, which was voted on by participating advisors and providers.

Peter Barton, Partner and Head of the Equity Release practice at Ashfords,...

The systematic creation of new and better apprenticeships was cited as one of the key pillars of a fundamentally better economy and better society by Andrew Adonis, labour peer and former education minister and transport secretary in a visit to a local further education college last week.

Lord Adonis – noted for his controversial support for Michael Gove and academies – was opening Exeter College's new £8.5million pound Technology Centre in front of business and education partners as well as staff and students and he was critical of the role the public sector and his own former...

15 Minute Wonders - a business seminar with a difference - is due to be hosted at Buckerell Lodge, Topsham Road, Exeter on 17th January 2013.

Based on the Pecha Kucha and TED concepts of keeping presentations concise, fast paced and generating curiosity, Southwestfd have brought together some of the region’s most professional public speakers for an evening of 15 minute wonders. Each speaker will present for 15 minutes on a key business function, giving you a valuable insight into how to improve your business success.

There will be a speaker panel Q&A session and the...

In just two months since it was launched on 8th October, The Exeter Daily has clocked up almost 90,000 hits.

The Exeter Daily team have been bowled over by the positive response from both users and advertisers, with over 15,000 people having visited the site since its launch.

Close to 700 individuals, businesses and groups have registered as users of the site.

Top stories over the past two months include articles on flooding, a mum who went on the run with her son to prevent him having cancer treatment and a fatal motorway accident.

“The statistics are...