Angel investors have given £1 million backing to an innovative website which helps the bereaved.
Exeter-based Funeral Zone predicts that it will double in size within the next six months as a result of the seven-figure windfall, creating new technology jobs in the city.
Funeral Zone, launched by childhood friends Ed Gallois and Kevin Homeyard in 2013, is an online resource which provides everything you need when somebody dies.
Besides supporting the bereaved with practical help and resources www.funeralzone.co.uk also features a nationwide directory of funeral...
A cleaning company director who scammed the elderly by offering to clean their carpets for a bargain price before massively hiking up the cost has been given a 12-month suspended sentence.
At Exeter Crown Court on Wednesday Adam Joseph Vallier, 34, of Hannington Road, Pokesdown, Bournemouth, was also ordered to carry out 250 hours of community service.
Vallier had been found guilty of unfair trading and fraud after a five-day trial on September 23.
During sentencing Recorder A S Vaitilingam QC praised investigators from Devon and Somerset Trading Standards for...
A building at the heart of Devon and Cornwall police headquarters has been named in honour of much loved Falmouth PC Andy Hocking. Thousands of local people paraded through the town as a mark of respect when Andy died suddenly in March 2015. He was just 52. His impact on the local community was immense, and he epitomised everything that is good about neighbourhood policing. Now, in addition to permanent tributes in Falmouth, his memory will live on at Middlemoor HQ in Exeter where new recruits will see his name on a daily basis as they begin their training and follow in his footsteps. A...
Devon solicitors Wollen Michelmore have been recognised as among the best in the legal profession at the Law Society's 10th annual Excellence Awards in London last week. Shortlisted in three categories: Excellence in Client Service, Excellence in Private Client Practice and Excellence in Marketing & Communications, the firm were honoured to be highly commended in the third category of Excellence in Marketing & Communications. "The excellence awards are a recognition of the commitment, enthusiasm and passion that solicitors show in serving their clients, which – in the process -...
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People who may have used the Underground Passages to shelter from the Blitz are being asked to help produce a short film.
Next year marks the 75th anniversary of the Exeter Blitz of 1942. To commemorate these events, Exeter’s Underground Passages plans to produce a short documentary about wartime Exeter and the night-time Baedeker raids the city suffered.
Staff at the Passages are attempting to contact anyone who can remember Exeter during these years, particularly anyone who used the passages as an air-raid shelter. They are hoping to conduct living memory interviews with...
A ‘treasure chest’ of Exeter City Football Club’s history has been launched at a big gathering of former players at St James Park.
The event on Saturday 22 October saw the official unveiling of The Grecian Archive – an on-line resource packed with items from Exeter City’s heritage.
The Archive has been overseen by the Exeter City History Group, a Supporters Trust initiative, and delivered and hosted by its partner the University of Exeter with funding from the Heritage Lottery Fund.
The Archive can be visited at: http://grecianarchive.exeter.ac.uk
