20 charities are set to benefit from the match-day fundraising efforts of the Exeter Foundation during the 2017/18 rugby season.
Set up six years ago by the Exeter Chiefs and a selected group of local businessmen to help promote the local community and the vision of people working within it, the Exeter Foundation has raised over £1 million since its inception.
The Exeter Foundation has helped to directly fund over 80 charities and organisations, including the designated charities each year and several other projects and schemes.
Operation Tramline, a roads policing operation held over two weeks in Devon and Cornwall (3-7 and 10-14 July) on the M5, A30, A38 and sections of the A361, has been declared a success.
82 vehicles were stopped, and 105 offences were recorded which included 37 drivers using handheld mobile devices. The operation employed officers from the Devon & Cornwall Police and Dorset Police Alliance Roads Policing Team, and focused on heavy and light goods vehicles, although in the course of their duties officers recorded offences by drivers of other types of vehicles and assisted at the...
Two trading standards services on different sides of the country have worked together to convict a rogue trader who preyed on the elderly and the vulnerable.
Self-employed gardener James Holmes, 29, has been sentenced to 200 hours community work after being found guilty of fraud. Holmes, who pleaded guilty, was sentenced at Peterborough Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday 12 July 2017. The court heard how Holmes had targeted elderly vulnerable people in Yaxley in Cambridgeshire, and Exeter, Devon, to get them to agree to have work carried out in their garden. In May an elderly Exeter...
Leading chartered accountants and business advisers PKF Francis Clark have announced that they are relocating their Exeter operation to larger premises in November.
160 staff members will move to Peninsula Business Park, Exeter, just a stone’s throw from the firm’s current premises at Vantage Point on Pynes Hill. The new office building will be renamed from Argal House to Centenary House.
The move has been prompted by year on year growth for the UK Top 20 accountancy firm which now has 8 offices across the South and South West of England of which Exeter is the largest. In...
Walkers following the popular Two Moors Way between Newbridge and Holne on Dartmoor can now enjoy an easier walk thanks to a generous donation from a local walking group towards route improvements.
Moorland Ramblers provided a £200 donation to Dartmoor National Park Authority’s Donate for Dartmoor donation scheme to help fund the cost of converting worn out stiles with kissing gates. The work was co-ordinated by the National Park Authority with assistance from local farmers and contractors.
Andrew Watson, Head of Recreation, Access & Estates said: “We would like to...
South West workloads have slowed across all sectors of the construction industry as Brexit delays investment, according to the Q2 2017 UK RICS Construction and Infrastructure Market Survey. Anecdotal evidence from respondents suggests that uncertainty regarding Brexit is weighing on investment decisions, alongside the political turmoil generated from last month’s general election.
After a positive picture in the Q1 survey with the growth in workloads accelerating at its strongest pace since the referendum, there has been a modest slowing in Q2 2017 with private commercial and...
Your essential guide to What’s On in and around Exeter this weekend (21-23) July:
THEATRE
Just Like That! The Tommy Cooper Show Friday, 8pm, Barnfield Theatre, Exeter A wonderful homage to the UK’s best-loved comedian of all time, a laugh-a-minute extravaganza that comedy fans of all ages simply can’t miss – just like that! Written by and Starring John Hewer. www.barnfieldtheatre.org.uk
Comedy of Errors Friday, Saturday & Sunday, Rougemont Gardens, Exeter A brand-new adaptation of William Shakespeare’s The Comedy of Errors. Marrying a colourful circus-infused...
Thousands of Olly Murs fans have been left disappointed after it was announced that his concert at Powderham Castle next weekend has been cancelled.
Event organisers, Stephen C Associates Limited, has gone into insolvency and is now expected to go into liquidation.
The Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra Proms event which was due to take place on Sunday 30 July has also been cancelled.
Stephen C Associates Limited said: “We are sorry to inform you that the company Stephen C Associates Limited, promoter of numerous outdoor shows, has ceased to trade. It is insolvent and...
Local club Unit 1 Exeter is taking part in a pilot project that will help make sure artists are getting their fair share of royalties for the music they create. The club on Summerland Street is taking part in the pilot being led by music industry licensing bodies PRS for Music and PPL. By using the very latest Music Recognition Technology (MRT), it is hoped that the data collated from the tracks played by the club’s DJs could improve the way in which royalties are paid to the right performers, songwriters, producers, record labels and music publishers. Having initially launched in London...
A woman from Crediton has raised a phenomenal £1122 by taking to the skies and jumping out of a plane at 15,000 feet to help support the British Heart Foundation’s (BHF) life saving research.
Gill Davies, 34, was inspired to do the jump for the love of her daughter Caitlin, who was sadly born with a serious, and at times life threatening heart condition.
“We didn’t know there was any problem with her heart, until a couple of hours after she was born. She became blue and lifeless and was rushed to the Special Care Baby Unit (SCBU). After a few hours, we were told that she...
