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...
Celebrate the end of the week with a glass of bubbly and some great music at Exeter Castle on Friday 1st September 2017. The fun starts at 6pm. Entertainment will provided by Radio Exe DJ John Johnston and live music from Men Behaving Badly. Enoy a selection of fizz, a fully licensed bar and street foods. Carriages at midnight.
What a great way to start the weekend! Tickets are £20 and available by emailing corksoutforcancer@gmail.com .
Griffin Chartered Accountants has swelled its numbers by four less than a year after moving into new premises in Honiton - and the company looks set to recruit even more staff before the end of 2017.
Of the four, two are qualified accountants. Jo Davey, who joins Griffin from Thomas Westcott and Stevie-Jean Bessell, previously with Haines-Watts, bring solid experience and future management potential to the company. Griffin is showing its commitment to bringing on fresh talent with two new trainees, Tom Broderick and Andrea Gibbs. Over the same period, the company’s turnover has...
IT was fourth time lucky for Matt Norman at the 40th anniversary Dartmoor Folk Festival, held at South Zeal near Okehampton at the weekend.
Folk music, song and dance enthusiast Matt, from Bristol, was declared the champion adult Dartmoor Step Dance competition champion for 2017 after a hotly-fought competition.
Matt, formerly from South Zeal and Exeter, had previously won the title in 2008, 2011 and 2015 and now equals competitor Lisa Sture, from North Devon, who holds the record for having previously won the title on four occasions.
Putting on a musical show can be murder - as audiences will find out when The Mitre Players return to Dawlish's Shaftesbury Theatre with Curtains, a musical comedy whodunnit.
It's opening night and the leading lady is so dreadful, she is killing the show. But her final bow at the curtain call turns out to be her last - minutes later, she is dead. Enter musical theatre fan and local detective Lieutenant Frank Cioffi, who must crack the case and stop the body count climbing higher.
It's a high energy, toe-tapping, laugh-out-loud show with music and lyrics by Kander and Ebb...
Get an insight into the Exeter Chiefs and the laws of rugby with our series of events with the coaches of the 2017 Premiership champions.
The first event 'How we won the Premiership' is on Wednesday, 13th September, with Director of Rugby Rob Baxter. Ali Hepher will then be doing a 'Rugby For Dummies' on Wednesday, 11th October.
Tickets for each event are £15, or both can be bought for £25. Click here to purchase tickets.
Get an insight into the Exeter Chiefs and the laws of rugby with our series of events with the coaches of the 2017 Premiership champions.
The first event 'How we won the Premiership' is on Wednesday, 13th September, with Director of Rugby Rob Baxter and the six 'original' players who were in both the Championship and Premiership winning squads. Ali Hepher will then be doing a 'Rugby For Dummies' on Wednesday, 11th October.
Tickets for each event are £15, or both can be bought for £25. Click here to purchase your tickets.
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...
Firms in the South West enjoyed a month of solid growth during July, with employment rising at the fastest rate in 18 months, according to the latest Lloyds Bank UK Regional PMI® survey.
The increase in job creation underlined an overall improvement in the region’s economic performance, with local firms seeing growth in new business orders and output levels.
The South West PMI rose to 54.0 in July, up from 52.6 in June. A reading greater than 50.0 signifies growth in business activity, whereas below 50 indicates a decline.
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...
