Andrew Brownsword Hotels is celebrating following the announcement that Michael Wignall and Gidleigh Park have been awarded two Michelin stars following the release of the Michelin Guide 2017. Having only started at Gidleigh Park in January this year, this is the first year that Michelin has evaluated Michael Wignall’s Gidleigh Park menus, and with great success. Announced today during a star studded event held at the Institution of Engineering and Technology at Savoy Place, London, the ceremony was the first time the awards had been announced at a live event since The Michelin Guide Great...
Axminster Community Hospital has been temporarily closed (Monday 3rd October) due to a burst water main pipe in the cellar.
The flooding has caused some infrastructure damage, which has affected the hospital’s IT services and electricity supply. As a result, services at the hospital have been temporarily suspended.
Staff from the Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Foundation Trust have been working on site this morning to resolve the situation as quickly as possible, with support from Northern Devon Healthcare Trust and other partner agencies. The Fire Service has also been in...
Exeter School was a wonderful venue for the 2016/17 Launch of Young Enterprise, Company Programme. A packed programme with energetic and inspirational presenters was a great introduction for all the teams to the Young Enterprise - Company Programme.
This programme is for student’s pupils aged 15-19 years old, giving them the opportunity to run a real business and start something inspirational. Over the course of an academic year, students can:
• Raise finance by selling shares • Open and use their own bank account • Carry out market research • Work together to create their...
In the week that we celebrated Grandparents’ Day, a family lawyer from East Devon has spoken of the plight of grandparents who lose contact with their grandchildren as a result of family breakdown, feud or bereavement.
In the UK, grandparents don’t have an automatic right to contact with their grandchildren. However, they can ask the Court for permission to apply for a Child Arrangements Order to see them. It is rare for an application by a grandparent to be refused, unless it can be shown not to be in the child’s best interests.
The installation of a 3G pitch at Exeter City’s Cliff Hill Training Ground is well under way thanks to work from NPS, Sportfields and Desso Sports.
The start-of-the-art pitch will be built to the same size as the playing field at St James Park using a contemporary cork infill surface and is set to be completed by the 17th of December.
It will benefit the club greatly as it will enable the first team to train effectively during the winter months and also be a facility that Exeter City’s Academy, Football in the Community charity and the Ladies team will be able to use all...
At 2300hrs on 30th September a Kawasaki Motorcycle collided with road works in Bridge Road, Exeter. The male rider is currently in hospital with life threatening injuries.
Today, The Wildlife Trusts publish a new report, ‘The case for more Marine Conservation Zones’. The report identifies 48 areas at sea that still need protection for their marine habitats and wildlife. Nine of the sites identified are off Devon’s coasts, with two areas in the Bristol Channel, one in Lyme Bay and six Devon estuaries recommended as MCZs. Following the designation of 50 Marine Conservation Zones since 2011 (of which six are in Devon) these new sites would complete a network of special places where habitats and wildlife can flourish to safeguard healthy and productive seas for...
There was further frustration today for Rolle Exmouth Ltd after the community organisation was forced suspend community activities.
It is the latest stage in a saga which has taken more twists and turns than a Devon country lane.
REL, has been working since 2010 to make the vacant Rolle College site sustainable as a long-term education, community and business asset for the town.
However, Plymouth University, the current owner, has struck a deal to sell its asset to the Exeter Deaf Academy which plans to create a state-of-the-art campus in Exmouth.
Police are investigating the shooting of a Peregrine Falcon in South Devon, causing it injury.
The bird of prey was found at a coastal location near Ipplepen on 23rd August 2016 with an injury to its wing. Examination of the bird by a local vet revealed that it had been shot with an air rifle pellet causing fractures to the wing.
There was a coded ring on the bird’s leg that had been placed there whilst in the nest a few weeks after hatching by a local ornithologist and British Trust for Ornithology (BTO) volunteer.
These rings were issued by the BTO to assist in...
Significant achievements in infection control and prevention are being celebrated at the Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Foundation Trust, as the hospital marks the fifth anniversary since its last incident of hospital acquired MRSA blood stream infection. This remarkable accomplishment comes as the result of continuous improvements at the Trust over the last 10 years thanks to the dedicated work of our staff.
The Trust is now considered a national leader in infection control, being the only general hospital in England to have avoided having any MRSA blood stream infections for the last...
