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Barratt Homes apprentice Joe Harris (19) is celebrating this week, after picking up a coveted carpentry accolade from Exeter College.

The award-winner, now in his second year, is learning his trade at the housebuilder’s Saxon Fields development in Cullompton and has been named Site Carpentry Level 2 Apprentice of the Year 2016-17.

“Big congratulations to Joe - this is fantastic news,” said Barratt Homes managing director Paul Moran. “We are all very proud of him because he has worked incredibly hard for this award. And to add to his success, he has completed his level two...

As school children settle in to their long awaited summer holidays, and families across Devon count down the final days to their annual getaway, foster carer Katherine Page has planned a memorable summer for her three fostered children, Anna, Louise and Alice (not their real names).

But just as it’s a challenge for parents to balance holidays, time out from the school term, and a work life, that challenge can be complicated further for foster families by the temporary nature of some foster placements. Planning holidays for one thing, not knowing exactly whether changes to their...

Local charity Hospiscare is delighted to announce that for the second year running there will an Open Garden weekend held on 23rd and 24th September at the beautiful private home, Holcombe Court in Holcombe Rogus.

Holcombe Court is a Grade I Tudor manor house situated on the border of Devon and Somerset, and its seven-acre garden is rarely open to the public.

The 2016 weekend raised over £4,000 to support Pine Lodge Day Hospice in Tiverton and it is hoped the amount will be beaten this year. The funds raised will prove invaluable towards ensuring that Hospiscare can...

Staff from an Exeter commercial insurance broker Arthur J. Gallagher, based at Northernhay Place, came together with colleagues across three of its other South-West offices to tackle a two-day 170-mile cycling challenge in memory of much-loved, Exeter-based colleague, Claire Jarman, who sadly lost her life to cancer earlier this year. With the final fundraising tally now in — and having smashed their initial £30,000 target to the tune of more than £10,000 — the team came together once more to present a cheque to Cancer Research UK for £40,379 at a special event held in mum-of-two Claire’s...