The Ship Inn, Teignmouth has been declared the regional winner of Rover’s coveted Dog-friendly Pub Awards, after receiving the most votes from the public in the area.
The Dog-friendly Pub Awards, run by Rover.com, the world’s largest network of pet sitters and dog walkers, celebrates pubs with dog-friendly initiatives and encourages pubs across the country to welcome four legs as well as two.
The Ship Inn fought off fierce competition this year from over 335 dog-friendly watering holes across the South West, but held on to the top spot after accumulating the most votes....
A grant of £4,000 to the Devon Air Ambulance from Devonshire Freemasons has brought the total Masonic support given to air ambulances across the country to £2.4 million since 2007.
The total contribution to the Devon Air Ambulance since 2007 by Devonshire Freemasons is in excess of £122,000.
Devon’s Air Ambulances operates across Devon up to 19 hours a day and assisted 1109 patients during 2018.
The grant, which comes through the Masonic Charitable Foundation, is funded by freemasons and their families from across Devon, England and Wales.
Whilst on a visit to the House of Lords Ian Kingsbury JP., the Provincial Grand Master of Devonshire Freemasons, was inspired by a presentation given by Steve Morton, Director of Development for the Exeter Royal Academy for Deaf Education, outlining the Academy’s aims and development plans for the future academy which is to be relocated to a new site in Exmouth - so much so that he came back to Devonshire with the desire to help those who are affected by this very difficult sensory disability. To this end he approached the Devonshire Freemasons Benevolent Fund Committee for help, and they...
Yesterday evening (Thursday 14 November 2019), Wayne Hemingway presented his team’s vision for Queen’s Drive Exmouth.
Around 200 people attended the public exhibition at the Ocean Centre on Exmouth seafront to listen to Hemingway Design and to ask questions. The audience was made up of Exmouth people, businesses and community organisations all with an interest in the town’s future success.
A steady flow of local people had already visited Ocean the day before (Wednesday 13 November) for a preview of the exhibition and to discuss with members and council officers their...
Did you know that one in six people (one in five in Devon) have hearing loss in the UK and for those over fifty this rises to four in ten? Hearing loss affects both children and adults, some people are born deaf, some loose hearing through an accident or subjection to loud noise and for others hearing can be a gradually loss over time. As a charity which supports Deaf (BSL Users) and people with disabilities, Living Options Devon regularly engages with its service users. The charity also facilitates service providers and encourages them to better support and improve services for those with...
McCarthy and Stone are calling for construction firms in the area to join its supply chain, opening up the prospect of future work with the UK’s leading developer and manager of retirement communities to new contractors and sub-contractors in throughout the South.
This opportunity is brought to the south of the UK through the innovative partnership between McCarthy and Stone’s Southern region and Copronet- a new online portal that brings the UK’s leading developers and new sub-contractors together.
Contractors can register with Copronet for free by going to mccarthyandstone...
<p>With less than six months to go to the general release of Disney’s remake of The Little Mermaid, Cofton Holidays, which earlier this year launched mermaid and shark swimming lessons for children, is offering a new FIN fitness class, giving adults the opportunity to achieve a full-body tone up thanks to full-sized mono-fins.
Creating a splash in the fitness world, the new classes are being launched as part of Ashburn Springs Spa and Leisure’s Health and Fitness event, running from Friday 22nd November to Saturday 23rd November.
Exeter-based Software Solved, the data and software specialist, is delighted to announce the launch of its Insurance Practice which is dedicated to serving clients in the Insurance sector. The practice launch builds upon the company’s 20 years’ experience creating innovative solutions for the leading national and global Insurance firms.
In the competitive insurance industry, insurers are increasingly having to modernise legacy processes to remain agile and meet customers rising expectations.
With Software Solved’s understanding of these challenges, the team excels in ground...
A Taunton woman has scooped a national award, just two years after starting her career in house sales.
Samantha Meaden was named as the Persimmon Homes Sales Trainee of the Year, beating off competition from the leading national house builder’s 30 other regional teams.
The 21-year-old was described as a “true asset to the team” by her manager Stacey Harris.
Stacey, who is head of sales at Persimmon Homes South West based in Exeter, said: “Samantha started with Persimmon Homes as a trainee sales advisor in 2017. She had been planning a career as a make-up artist with...
A UNIQUE legal service giving separating or divorcing parents direct access to barristers says it wishes to raise awareness of parental alienation before cases reach the courtroom (November 2019).
Children in the Middle says it wants to highlight the issue to ensure parents are aware of it and catch it in its early stages, so children aren’t fully alienated.
Elizabeth McCallum, who is a family barrister and co-founder of Children in the Middle, along with fellow Exeter barrister Sarah Evans, explained: “Parental alienation is when, following divorce or separation, a child,...
