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Exeter-based, self-catering specialist, Luxury Coastal , celebrates its fourth anniversary on 31 March 2023 as one of the fastest-growing holiday providers in the south west, bringing 28,741 guests to the region in 2022, and achieving a year-on-year turnover growth of 28%. The Company remains committed to sharing its success within the local community, putting longevity before profit and is continuing to work towards B Corp accreditation over the next 12 months.

Managing Director, Phil Beattie, explains: “At our core is a commitment to support people, businesses and organisations...

Stagecoach has announced today (29 March 2023) that it has appointed Martin Gibbon to manage its bus operations in South Wales. Martin, who is currently Operations Director of Stagecoach West and Oxford Tube running bus and coach services, will take over as Managing Director of Stagecoach South Wales in May.

A key part of Martin’s role will be working with local stakeholders across the South Wales region. He will also be responsible for a team of around 750 employees and over 100 vital express and local bus services connecting communities across the region.

Martin joined...

A £10,000 donation from a healthcare charity will enable University of Exeter Medical School Students to take up clinical placements in hospitals and laboratories around the globe, to help shape their education.

The Hospital Saturday Fund has given fifteen final year Exeter medical students the opportunity to undertake training abroad through a bursary. The final year students will take off for countries in South America, Southeast Asia, Australia and more. Once there, the students will undertake a clinical placement, which diversifies their experience of how different health...

As applications for massive new solar farms on prime agricultural land continue to come thick and fast, the Devon branch of the countryside charity CPRE has released a map showing the alarming spread of industrial-sized solar developments across the county.

The map shows the number, scale and spread of 65 permitted and pending solar farms of 20+ acres in Devon, and the only major application to be refused last December at Marsh Green in East Devon. The nine largest solar farms covering 100+ acres are all within the local authority areas of Torridge, North Devon, Mid Devon and...