Exeter School pupils, parents and staff are celebrating another year of consistently high GCSE results.
82% of all grades were A* or A and 49.8% of grades were A*. Seventy-two candidates scored 8 or more A*/A grades with 42 registering 10 or more A*/A grades.
Laura Perring from Exeter is the daughter of an Old Exonian and the highest individual achiever with 12 A*s.
Charlie Austin, Kelsey Baxter-Sibley, Phoebe Campbell, Jessica Flanagan, Jake Kilmartin, Will Silver and Bill Taylor each attained eleven A*s.
All eight pupils achieved A* with distinction in...
Police closed a section of the M5 for two hours today causing long delays for motorists.
The road was closed in both directions, southbound between J26-27 and at J27 northbound due to concern for a woman on the motorway bridge, and motorists’ safety.
The road was re-opened at 1.30pm and police reported the woman to be safe and well.
Avon & Somerset Police are warning of delays due to backlogs of traffic clearing and have advised anyone planning to travel towards Wellington from the north or south to delay their journey.
After the success of last week’s A-Level results, The Maynard School is thrilled to have posted yet another outstanding set of results at GCSE level.
Students at the South West’s leading independent school for girls have outperformed the national average to an extraordinary extent with 66% achieving A* and A grades and 91% gaining A*, A and B grades across a broad spectrum of subjects.
By contrast, nationally the GCSE results show the sharpest decline on record and the national average for A* - C grades is only 66.9%, proving just how well the Maynard girls have done....
A Devon businesswoman has won a competition to name a life-sized rhino, which is standing outside Exeter Central Train Station for the next two months.
Karen Bryant of Select Appliances in Plymouth submitted the name 'Paladin' as part of a contest held by Devon and Somerset Trading Standards Service and the Buy With Confidence Trader Approval scheme.
Devon & Somerset Trading Standards Service’s Buy With Confidence (BWC) scheme is sponsoring Paladin as part of Paignton Zoo's Great Big Rhino Project.
In total 42 life-sized painted rhino sculptures can be seen...
Police searches will continue in Exminster in connection with yesterday’s arrest of a 30-year-old man in Somerset on suspicion of terrorism offences.
A man was arrested at 12.20pm by officers from the Metropolitan Police Service’s Counter Terrorism Command (SO15), supported by colleagues from Avon and Somerset and Devon and Cornwall Police, on suspicion of being involved in the preparation for acts of terrorism under section 5 of the Terrorism Act.
Searches are now being conducted by the Metropolitan Police Service’s Counter Terrorism Command (SO15) and local uniform...
Despite the recent economic slowdown, there are encouraging signs that many of Exeter’s businesses are coping with the new retail environment with impressive flexibility and dynamism.
Although many businesses may have suffered due to the city’s somewhat remote location, certain companies have flourished in recent years by adapting to various online trends that have benefitted a wide range of areas from online gaming to boutique fashion.
One of the more startling trends can be found by taking a quick visit to Exeter’s Rooster Records on Fore Street. This comfortably...
The personal diary of Sergeant James Littler is being published online 100 years after he survived the fierce fighting at the Battle of the Somme on the National Army Museum’s commemorative website First World War in Focus.
Littler arrived on the Somme on 29 July 1916. Allied attacks had been launched on 1 July and continued into mid-November, but with German counter attacks the offensive eventually included 12 separate battles. These battles often went on for weeks at a time and Littler recorded how the men awaited their fate in a ‘hell-hole’.
Aquamarine Media are providing the complete set up and management of monthly paid search marketing campaigns for global charity, Microloan Foundation.
As part of the Google Ad Grants scheme, the Teignmouth-based agency will be running multiple PPC campaigns for the charity, worth $10,000 in advertising a month, completely free of charge.
The campaigns, which will be monitored closely by a team of experts, will drive quality traffic to Microloan Foundation’s website and significantly increase the awareness of the life changing work they do.
Blundell’s School announces another excellent set of GCSE results with more than a quarter of grades at A*, a position that equals the school’s best ever results of last year.
From a large and able group of pupils, once again more than half the grades were at A*/A Level and, in an improvement on last year, more than a third of the year group ( 31 pupils) gained at least 8 A* and A grades.
The pass rate was again well over 95%. The following pupils gained 9 or more A*s: Imogen Cotton, Alfie Gardner, Megan Grant, Julia Huntingford, Will McIntyre, Bonnie Price, Kieran Smith...
The refugee crisis has become huge as of late: Around the world there have been many different situations that have forced the local populous to pick up and move, leaving most of their belongings and their former life at home.
These people range from different countries across the globe, most of which are war torn, and those who have become dispossessed include men, women and children.
This has been met with support for those placed in the harshest of situations. Charities have responded to this in Aid of these people, offering funding through fundraisers in order to fund...
