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The picturesque estuary town of Topsham, just four miles from Exeter, will be celebrating the end of winter with Spring Forward Saturdayon the 30th March. Just before the clocks go forward to welcome warmer days the town will be buzzing with a fair-like atmosphere, with the majority of shops, cafés and restaurants taking part, and live music around the town.

The event is in its second year and is set to be a fabulous, vibrant day, full of offers from local businesses, Spring treats, children’s activities and foot-tapping sounds from talented local musicians.

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Celebrated journalist Nick Davies will discuss his landmark investigative work at a University of Exeter event this month.

Mr Davies, also a documentary maker, has been involved in uncovering the phone-hacking scandal in Rupert Murdoch’s newspaper empire; initiating the alliance of news organisations which published US war logs and cables obtained by Wikileaks; and working as part of the team which handled the British end of Edward Snowden’s leaks about the US National Security Agency.

He will discuss his 40-year career with Don Boyd, film director, producer, screenwriter...

A new fashion exhibition, the ‘Tree of Life,’ is celebrating the connection of the National Trust’s Killerton estate to the founding of the Forestry Commission in 1919.

It’s a little known fact that 100 years ago, Devon MP Francis Acland, whose family owned the Killerton estate, was one of the founding fathers of the committee which led to the creation of the Forestry Commission in 1919. To mark the centenary of his contribution, Killerton’s new ‘Tree of Life’ fashion exhibition explores the connection between trees and what we wear, including high-fashion pieces made from...

A pharmacy technician is a healthcare provider working under direct supervision of a licensed pharmacist. Pharmacy technicians conduct various pharmacy-related tasks. Although they usually work in the community, retail, or hospital pharmacies, they can as well work for long-term care facilities, third-party insurance companies, academe, grocery stores, general merchandise stores, computer software companies, pharmaceutical manufacturers, or in government.

Other functions of a pharmacy technician include:

• Assembling and packaging medicine for prescriptions
• ...