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Westbank’s Community Allotment made accessible to all thanks to Kier’s volunteers

Manpower and materials donated to Westbank Community Health and Care by the Kier Group have transformed the charity’s Community Allotment at Exminster into a space that’s accessible to everyone.

Eleven local volunteers from Kier’s Natural Resources Nuclear & Networks division recently worked over a total of about 4 days to create a tarmac access ramp, level the ground and lay a concrete pathway to make the allotment accessible to wheelchair users. The monetary value of the work amounts to approximately £7,000, including labour and materials.

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The 1975 and Jake Bugg join BBC Radio 1’s Big Weekend Exeter line-up

Authored by Mary Youlden
Posted: Tue, 03/01/2016 - 11:56am

BBC Radio 1’s Nick Grimshaw today announced that The 1975 and Jake Bugg have joined the line-up for Radio 1’s Big Weekend Exeter 2016.

The 1975 and Jake dropped into The Radio 1 Breakfast Show to make the announcement, which follows on from their performance last night at Radio 1 Presents, where the pair exclusively took to the stage alongside Lady Leshurr at London’s O2 Forum, Kentish Town.

The 1975 say: “We're really excited to be playing in Exeter for Radio 1's Big Weekend. We loved playing Derry~Londonderry and Glasgow and are really pleased to be heading back for a...

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MEP celebrates success of University of Exeter EU-funded projects

Authored by Mary Youlden
Posted: Tue, 03/01/2016 - 11:11am

South West MEP Clare Moody has met pioneering University of Exeter experts who are helping to boost economic growth and create jobs in the region.

Funding from the European Union, through the European Regional Development Fund, has helped establish two Business Technology Centres at the University of Exeter, which have supported more than 380 businesses, providing research support, advice and access to facilities and leading academics.

Ms Moody heard how CALM (Centre for Additive Layer Manufacturing) and CALMARE (Centre for Alternative Materials and Remanufacturing), both...

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SW early support funding fears

Authored by News Desk
Posted: Tue, 03/01/2016 - 7:35am

Government funding for early help services in the South West is expected to be cut by 70 per cent, from £416m to £126m, between 2010 and 2020, leaving children and families without the early support that often stops their problems spiralling out of control.

The ‘Losing in the long run’ report published today by the charities Action for Children, National Children’s Bureau and The Children’s Society questions the sustainability of further cuts and examines the amount of money central government is giving to local authorities for early intervention services.

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Concern over drug driving levels

Authored by News Desk
Posted: Mon, 02/29/2016 - 10:31pm

Large numbers of drivers and passengers are still taking dangerous risks when it comes to drugs, according to a new survey.

Brake, the road safety charity, and Direct Line have revealed a shocking one in 14 drivers (7%) admit they drive at least once a month after having taken drugs.

The release of these figures comes a year after the introduction of new drug-drive laws designed to make it easier for police to catch criminal drivers. In the 12 months since the law change, there has been a six-fold increase in the number of convictions for drug-driving nationally, but some...

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Exeter event offers an insight into apprenticeships

Authored by News Desk
Posted: Mon, 02/29/2016 - 8:19pm

The Ofsted Grade 1 National Apprenticeship Providers have organised a number of Apprenticeship open days across the country which are due to take place throughout National Apprenticeship Week.

The events, which have been named as ‘Apprentice Insight Evenings’, will be a celebration of Apprenticeships and the impact they can have in the local area.

On 16th March, the Exeter academy will play host to both employers and young people from the local area who are considering the Apprenticeship route and will offer them an ‘insight’ into the world of Apprenticeships.

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Funding to improve public access to Dartmoor hay meadows

Devon Wildlife Trust is today celebrating the news that it has received a £13,340.00 funding award from SITA Trust for its project "Meadows for Everyone". Hay meadows are one of England’s rarest habitats. On Dartmoor, after many years of decline, there are now hopes that these spectacularly colourful landscape features could be on the verge of a real renaissance. A Heritage Lottery Fund project is promoting better management for surviving meadows, and a number of owners are cooperating to establish new flowering grasslands on private land. The Meadows for Everyone project will complement...

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Help your favourite art group exhibit at RAMM

Authored by News Desk
Posted: Mon, 02/29/2016 - 4:53pm

Seven Devon art groups are looking for votes, hoping that they will win the opportunity to display their work at Exeter’s award-winning Royal Albert Memorial Museum (RAMM) from 30 April to 29 May.

The Express & Echo newspaper is featuring their work throughout March and readers are invited to vote for their favourite.

The 2016 competition has a botanical theme and the shortlisted entries are:

• 21 Group of Artists, Bovey Tracey • Alphington Art Group, Exeter • Flying Colours, Teignmouth • Macula Collective, Exmouth • Newton Abbot Art Group • Tiverton Art Society...

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Phone network for older people launches in Devon

The UK’s first mobile phone network aimed at serving older customers, Fuss Free Phones, has launched in Go Mobile stores across Devon.

Fuss Free Phones provides a telephonist-based concierge-style service, accessed at the press of a single big button on a Doro mobile phone. Answered immediately by specially trained, friendly telephonists, customers can ask to be put through to their friends and relatives, for a text message to be sent and replies read back, or request help to find something on the Web.

Now available in all 38 Go Mobile stores across Devon, Cornwall and...

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Reading Between the Lines, with Exeter, Mid & East Devon Samaritans

Samaritans volunteers in Exeter, Mid and East Devon have launched a new campaign called We Listen, letting people know they can call Samaritans whatever they’re going through.

Posters in local railway stations really do allow the public to read between the lines because they contain hidden messages where people claiming to be fine are not OK at all.

One says ‘I’m alright with being single I guess. It’s not ideal for the kids, but they seem to be coping’ - the real message being, ‘I’m not coping’.

Supported by Network Rail, the campaign aims to show that while it’s...

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Refugee stories set to come alive at TEDxExeter

Authored by Mary Youlden
Posted: Mon, 02/29/2016 - 11:36am

The reality of life for refugees fleeing the conflict in Syria will come vividly to life when award-winning photographer Giles Duley shows his pictures and tells the stories behind them at this year’s TEDxExeter.

Duley, who lost three limbs and nearly his life in 2011 when working in Afghanistan, is an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society. He started out as a fashion and music photographer photographing such nineties icons as Oasis, The Prodigy and Pulp.

Disillusioned with celebrity culture, he discovered that he could use his craft to tell the stories of those...

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