Her Royal Highness, The Duchess of Cornwall will officially open the new BBC South West Headquarters in Plymouth on Wednesday 20 July 2016.
For the last two years BBC South West has undertaken an ambitious redevelopment of its headquarters in Plymouth. The multi-million pound investment is the biggest BBC building project outside London in recent years. The new headquarters is home to cutting edge news-gathering and broadcasting technology and future-proofs the BBC’s commitment to the South West, a commitment that began in 1924 when the first BBC offices in Plymouth were built....
Harper Adams university students came second in an international robotics competition.
The team, made of four MEng Agricultural Engineering students, entered the competition at the Field Robot Event in Gut Mariaburghausen in Habfurt, Germany.
The students to enter were Joe Allin, 23, Ali Taylor, 24, Tom Lindley, 23, and Josh Mathews, 23, who were all accompanied by the Head of off-road Vehicle design and Final Year senior tutor Dr Ianto Guy.
Dr Ianto said: “Most of the teams were from other universities. We had a relatively small team, the others had around 10-15...
Harold the Giraffe, the mascot of children’s charity Life Education Wessex (LEW), is going on the road for a week from Monday 11th July to spread the word about an exciting online resource available without charge to schools from September.
‘Harold’ the Giraffe puppet will be making a whistle-stop tour of as many schools as possible throughout Devon, Somerset, Dorset and Hampshire before the end of the academic year. He aims to visit at least 50 schools across the four counties, including a number in Exeter, to tell teachers and children about SCARF, an interactive educational...
Exeter College students impressed at the coveted national finals in London of the toughest debating competition in the country.
A landmark event in the UK’s education calendar, the college students beat off tough competition to reach the Institute of Ideas Debating Matters National Final at the Museum of London.
The students from Exeter College won their place at the national finals after being crowned winners of the West and South Wales regional final of the competition.
Team members Milo Simpson, Tilly Porter, Stan Whittaker and Dylan Woodward were all praised by...
Quicke’s cheddar cheese is to be featured on Virgin Train’s new menu.
The menu, developed for Virgin trains exclusively by the award winning chef James Martin will feature Quicke’s cheese for first class customers.
The Quicke family have been farming in Newton st Cyres for nearly 500 years, making traditional clothbound cheddar.
The multi award winning cheddar is created using traditional recipes handed down from generation to generation with milk from their specially bred herd of grass fed cows.
Mary Quicke, Managing director for Quicke’s said: “I’m...
Uffculme-based Coldharbour Mill Museum is the latest winner of RGB Building Supplies’ Well Built Community Fund following a public vote where the local community was asked to show their support.
Up against groups based in Paignton and Wiveliscombe, people in the local areas were asked to vote for who they would like to be the lucky recipients of £1,000 worth of building materials from RGB.
More than 400 votes were received with the museum coming out on top.
Coldharbour Mill is one of the oldest woollen mills in the UK having been in continuous production since 1797...
Police in South Devon are seeking a 21-year-old man who is wanted for a breach of an electronic tagging order.
Dennis Ham from Buckfastleigh is currently sought by police and officers are following a number of lines of enquiry to ascertain his whereabouts and intend to arrest him and return him to court when he is located.
He is described as a white man around 1.70m (5’7”) tall, of medium build with long hair and a beard.
Police are appealing to anyone who has seen Ham or has had recent contact with him to email 101@dc.police.uk or to telephone 101 quoting log 128...
An Exeter based business that provides bespoke loans to the regional business community is to sponsor the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners (STEP) South West branch meeting in November. The event will be held at Sandy Park Conference Centre, the home of Premiership rugby side Exeter Chiefs.
Trust and estate practitioners will be addressed by Professor Lesley King, Professional Development Consultant of the University of Law and author of ‘A Modern Approach to Wills, Administration and Estate Planning’. She is also the wills and probate columnist for the Law Society Gazette...
Firefighters were called to a blaze in Exeter this evening (6 July).
Three appliances from Danes Castle, Middlemoor and Topsham were sent to deal with the fire in a kitchen at a property in Bennett Square at around 6.30.
On arrival crews confirmed there was smoke and flames issuing.
A cooker was slightly damaged by fire and the ground floor kitchen was slightly damaged by smoke.
The fire was extinguished using two breathing apparatus, positive pressure fan and dry powder extinguisher.
