With just a few days to go before polling day the Electoral Commission, the independent body which oversees elections, is highlighting what voters need to know to vote in the elections and answering some of the most common questions and misconceptions.
The elections
4 out of 37 Local Authorities in the South West have elections on 3 May.
Local government elections select councillors, who are responsible for making decisions on running services in your local area.
People can find out if they have elections in their area on the Commission’s Your Vote Matters...
Top 100 law firm Michelmores, today announces the rebranding of its existing Technology Media and Communications practice.
Headed up by Partner Tom Torkar, the new Technology & Innovation Team will be made up of an expanded group of experienced lawyers who will deliver innovative, joined-up solutions through a multi-disciplinary approach. The team will include Richard Cobb (corporate), David Thompson (commercial), Charlotte Bolton (IP) Nathaniel Lane (data privacy and security), Tom Stenner-Evans (employment disputes), and Brian Garner (tax).
Chinese teachers from Shanghai visited Exeter College in a mutually beneficial exchange visit, under an international partnership.
Two experienced teachers, Sun (Harry) Qianzhi and Zhijing (Joey) Zhang, from the world- class Shanghai Information Technology College spent an intensive two weeks undertaking tailored teacher masterclasses and observing teachers at Exeter College, ranked Ofsted ‘Outstanding’.
The Chinese teachers studied an Introduction to Inclusive Teaching and Learning qualification, accredited by City & Guilds.
Exeter’s highly successful Cyber Security Awareness Week finally drew to a close - just seven weeks late!
The last event in the sell out programme of events had to be postponed because of snow. But the organisers, Bluegrass Group, were determined the week should finish in style.
Undaunted, they rescheduled the final event at Hanlons Brewery in Newton St Cyres to toast the success of the week and announce plans for next year’s event.
This year’s CSAW attracted 90 businesses from the city who attended a week long range of seminars, workshops and networking events,...
For those of you who know or have heard of Pip Bowhay from Kenton, you will be aware that she likes walking and she’s a passionate fund-raiser for local charities; she walked the 479 miles of the Santiago de Compostela back in 2015; shaved her hair off in 2016; has organised abseils down the church tower, frock swaps and compiled a cookbook – these activities together raising way over £10,000!
All this is pretty remarkable, but even more so when you hear that Pip lost half her sight as a result of a stroke in 2007 and her husband Richard passed away at the hospice in Exeter in 2011...
Bridge Road in Exeter will be closed overnight on Wednesday 9 May.
The road will be closed from 8.30pm on Wednesday 9 May, and will re-open by 5:30am the following morning (Thursday 10 May).
The closure is needed for the installation of Automatic Traffic Counters, and Devon County Council’s maintenance contractor Skanska will also be taking the opportunity to clean out drainage gullies.
The traffic counters are magnetic loops sealed in the road surface which record the number of vehicles travelling over them and feed the information to a roadside cabinet. The data...
Healthcare and protection insurance specialist, The Exeter, has retained its Investors in People accreditation for the eighteenth year in succession. The Investors in People Standard seeks to highlight commitment to high performance through good people management in businesses. The Exeter met each of the nine key indicators of high performance, each with three underpinning themes, which The Investors in People Framework is organised around.
With its office based on the outskirts of Exeter and a staff count of nearly 130, The Exeter provides medical insurance and a range of other...
For the fourth year in a row, Otter Garden Centres is headline sponsor for the popular Ottery St Mary Food & Families Festival.
This year the festival is set for Saturday, June 2 and the family-run garden centre is looking forward to once again being involved.
Sabine Taylor from Otter Garden Centres, said: “It takes a lot of hard work to make the festival the success that it is, and we’re delighted to support the event once again.
“The festival attracts increasing numbers of visitors to the town centre each year and helps to put Ottery St Mary firmly on the map...
Paignton Zoo has just bred a rare and unusual lizard for the very first time.
The Solomon Islands skink is also known as the prehensile-tailed skink, or the monkey-tailed skink… or the giant skink… or the monkey skink… or even the zebra skink Whatever you call it, this is one extraordinary creature.
For a start, it’s the world’s largest skink. A skink is a type of lizard – the word is from the Greek and referred originally to lizards in that part of the world. It’s one of the few reptiles known to live in a social group (called a circulus). It gives birth rather than lays...
Scouts in the Cullompton area have a new long term home thanks to the work of five star housebuilder Barratt Homes.
Apprentices from the housebuilder, which this year celebrates its 60th anniversary, have built a brand new community hub for the scouts with the Cullompton Scout Centre officially handed over to the group at a recent opening ceremony.
And the new residents were full of praise for the new facility which can accommodate all 60 members of the group and has room for them to expand in the future.
Scout leaders James Buczkowski and Sarah Wyatt said they were...
