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Apprentice Lily Woodworth has won the ‘Apprentice of the Month’ award from local apprenticeship provider Skills Group. Lily started as an apprentice with Exeter-based DanSci Dance Studio and has recently been promoted to Studio Manager, while simultaneously showing outstanding commitment to her apprenticeship. Lily, 20 and from Heavitree, is currently undertaking an apprenticeship in Customer Services with DanSci, having previously studied A Levels at college before realising full-time education no longer suited her. After speaking to Careers South West, Lily made contact with Skills Group...

A DEVON public health campaign that helps parents care for their children when they have minor illnesses like common coughs and colds, without the unnecessary use of antibiotics, has been shortlisted for a national award.

The Listen To Your Gut campaign, led by Devon County Council (DCC), the Northern Devon Healthcare NHS Trust (NDHT) and the Northern, Eastern and Western Devon Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG), is a finalist in the inaugural Antibiotic Guardian Awards.

The awards celebrate those who have done the most to tackle the growing issue of antibiotic resistance...

Imagine feeling left out of conversations because you can’t understand what your family are saying to you or the enormous sense of isolation because you can’t make yourself understood by your school friends or workmates.

Sadly, for many Deaf people this can be an everyday reality in the wider hearing world.

During National Deaf Awareness Week, 2-8 May, Exeter Deaf Academy opens registrations for a brand new challenge event called ‘Voice Off’. This is a fun communication challenge where individuals, schools, businesses, clubs and groups switch off their voice and find other...

The most powerful man in European farming, EU Agriculture Commissioner, Phil Hogan, will be attending the Devon County Show on Thursday May 19.

Mr Hogan has accepted an invitation from NFU President, Meurig Raymond, to join him as a guest at the Show, and the Commissioner will also be guest of honour at the Devon Farm Business Awards presentation dinner on the previous evening.

Devon County Show organiser, Ollie Allen, who made the announcement at the press launch of this year’s Show in Exeter today, said that the visit was a tribute to the influence of the NFU, and in...