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Barratt and David Wilson Homes is continuing its positive work to support local employment, by creating new roles to develop talent in the construction industry in Exeter.

The leading housebuilder, which is has its regional headquarters in Exeter, aims to recruit five new bricklaying apprentices to work across its developments in the region. They include sites in Exeter and Pinhoe.

It will also look to recruit a Technical Advanced Apprentice and a Commercial Advanced Apprentice who will have roles based at head office.

The vacancies come ahead of the twelfth annual...

Good writing is capable of informing, persuading, entertaining, and, in the process, bolstering the search-engine performance of the website to which it’s attached. You don’t have to be a master wordsmith to get your ideas out there – and if you’re not, there are several habits worth getting into if you want to make your writing more compelling. Let’s examine a few of them!

1. Read

If you want to write well, you need to read the type of writing you want to emulate. Think critically about which elements of it you’d like to incorporate into your own work. Don’t try to read...

Volunteers helped to put over 1,000 trees in the ground at community planting days held near Clyst Honiton recently.

By the end of the second planting day, volunteers had planted more than half of the total number of trees for Mosshayne farm, which meant they had completed the first wood on “the island” – the name of one of the new woods located between the River Clyst and a leat. It means that more than a thousand new trees are now in the ground.

There are still around 1,200 trees still to plant and you can get involved on Thursday 28th February, Friday 1st March and...

Exe Bridges will undergo essential repairs and maintenance during overnight work in March and April. Work to reconstruct and resurface the two bridges will start on the evening of Monday 4 March and is expected to take around seven weeks. Most of the work will be carried out from 6:30pm to 7am, although some daytime work will be needed on occasions. The existing road surface is in need of reconstruction. The scheme will also involve re-waterproofing the North and South bridges and repairs will be carried out to defective manhole covers, kerbs and gullies. Councillor Stuart Hughes, Devon...