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St Loye’s Foundation is pleased to announce that Eilis Rainsford will be its next Chief Executive from July.

Eilis joins St Loye’s Foundation from the mental health charity Community Care Trust (South West) Ltd where she has been Chief Executive since 2009.

Eilis has more than 25 years’ experience in senior management and leadership roles in the voluntary, health and social care sectors. She started her career in nursing.

She will lead a newly-formed group structure bringing together St Loye’s Foundation and the Community Care Trust (South West) Ltd. Eilis will...

Exeter Wheelers Cycling Club took part in a hill climb relay challenge up to the top of Stoke Woods to publicise their Hill Climb Festival to be held on 19th September.

Members of the club made 100 ascents of the Stoke Woods Hill (as seen in the Tour of Britain) in teams of three over the course of the day, the cyclists successfully climbed over 29,000ft, the equivalent of climbing Mt Everest to help publicise the clubs upcoming Hill Climb Festival.

Hill climbing is a long-running time trial tradition, which is well-represented in the South West with Minehead Cycling Club...

Work on the Tithebarn Link Road is nearing completion, with the first section of the route due to open on Friday 26 June. The initial stretch will connect Cumberland Way to Pinn Lane. Pinn Lane will be closed to motor vehicles for a short distance immediately south of the new road to remove through-traffic from the southern section of Pinn Lane. This will create a safer route for pedestrians and cyclists. Work on the remainder of the road, from Pinn Lane to the Science Park, will continue over the coming weeks and should be completed by mid-July. When complete the new £4.2 million road...

The current battle for the leadership of the Labour Party is in full swing with televised show downs between the candidates hitting the airwaves. A new edition of ‘A History of the British Labour Party’ by a historian at the University of Exeter has recently been published. The book brings up to date analysis of the party, examining both Gordon Brown's period in office and the Labour Party under the leadership of Ed Miliband. Professor Andrew Thorpe's study has been the leading single-volume text on the Labour Party since its first edition in 1997 and has now been thoroughly revised...