Christmas is just around the corner and the Positive People team are getting festive by holding Christmas crafting workshops across Devon. The Positive People project is funded by the Big Lottery Fund and the European Social Fund and aims to help people get socially and digitally connected.
In these free workshops, participants can get involved with a range of activities including making wreaths and snow globes, designing Christmas cards and T-shirts and making their own tree decorations. At some venues, there is also the opportunity to try out cake decorating and build a Virtual...
The Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Foundation Trust (RD&E) and Devon Partnership NHS Trust (DPT) have won a national bid to set up a new academy in Devon to improve care for patients.
The Devon Flow Coaching Academy aims to better manage a patient’s journey or ‘flow’ through the healthcare system by streamlining and redesigning processes in a way that benefits them, their carers and staff. It is expected to begin its work in February 2018.
A patient’s experience of pathways of care, sometimes through different organisations, can be complex and involve multiple...
A leading South West energy lawyer, whose dedication to the energy sector has seen her train in high altitude rescues for wind turbines, has won a trio of industry awards. Over the last three weeks Sonya Bedford, partner and head of the energy team at Stephens Scown LLP has been named Community Energy Champion at the Community Energy Awards, Energy Champion at the Energy Institute Awards and Environmental Champion at the Devon Environmental Business Initiative Awards. The Energy Institute is the professional body for the energy industry. It has over 23,000 individual members and 350...
Expanding, multi-award winning chartered accountants Haines Watts located in Exeter, acquired additional office space to accommodate its ever-growing team.
The leading firm of accountants has grown exponentially over the last 12 months with an increase of 75% in members of staff. This includes the creation of a business service division, from one person to a team of five specialising in bookkeeping, VAT and payroll.
And the recruitment drive continues with new Head of Tax Mark Johnstone, and an Accounts & Audit Senior joining the team by the end of the year, as well as...
Long-established Southern Healthcare owns four homes across Devon specialising in complex nursing, dementia and residential care. And it’s a double celebration for the independent care provider, which has been rated ‘Overall Outstanding’ by Care Quality Commission (CQC), for not one, but two of their homes. Sefton Hall based in Dawlish and The Old Rectory located in Exeter, were recognised in four domains: effective, responsive, caring and well-led. The coveted accomplishment is shared by only 1% of care homes in the country, thus earning Southern Healthcare the right to be recognised as...
Throughout December Devon and Cornwall Police will be making sure that the region’s roads are a safe place for everyone.
The annual Christmas operation to stop people driving under the influence of drugs or alcohol, through awareness raising and rigorous enforcement, is under way.
Any drivers involved in a collision and any motorists whose driving may lead police to suspect they are under the influence of alcohol will be breathalysed. If drug driving is suspected, drivers can also be tested at the roadside using a mouth swab device.
Police are appealing for witnesses after the theft of a £30,000 tractor from a farm in Bovey Tracey.
The red McCormick tractor [pictured] was taken from the farm yard overnight on Thursday 30 November to Friday 1 December.
Police are appealing for witnesses and asking anyone who may have seen the vehicle in the area to contact them. It carries the registration number WA10 KWT.
They would also like to hear from anyone who may have been offered the tractor for sale.
Anyone with information is asked to contact police via 101@dc.police.uk or by calling 101,...
COSTUME divas will be squaring up next weekend to see who can wear the most outlandish costume. The fifth annual Steampunk Yule Ball:The Nightmare before Christmas will be held at the Exeter Phoenix on Saturday, December 9. Featured acts include Victorian hip-hop artist Professor Elemental, dystopian art-rockers Babal, surreal cellist Miss Von Trapp, and The Wattingers. As well as celebrating the weird and wonderful underworld of Exeter, the event hopes to raise awareness of homelessness and the of work local charity Exeter Community Initiatives. Headliners & BBC6Music Favourites “Fey...
