PKF Francis Clark is celebrating the success of Corporate Finance senior associate Matt Willmott who has been awarded Young Dealmaker of the year at the Insider South West Dealmakers Awards 2016.

The prestigious awards recognise and reward the wealth of talent in the region’s professional services sector and celebrate the success achieved by dealmakers in the South West over the past 12 months.

Matt Willmott joined PKF Francis Clark’s Corporate Finance team in 2010 and has extensive experience across company acquisitions and disposals, raising finance, due diligence,...

UK manufacturers both large and small from all over the UK are being urged to enter The Manufacturer MX Awards (TMMX) by the deadline of June 30.

TMMX Awards is the biggest annual celebration in the industry’s calendar, attracting almost 1000 attendees. The free to enter programme is not just about the awards though, they are the pinnacle of a stringent programme designed to provide valuable business improvement advice and feedback from an expert panel of judges in the form of a confidential business report.

The TMMX Awards categories range from recognition in innovation...

Devon & Somerset Fire & Rescue Service hosted former Chief Fire and Rescue Adviser Sir Ken Knight on Monday 20 June, to discuss the Service’s progress on recommendations in his 2013 report Facing the Future.

In his Government-commissioned review, Sir Ken published his conclusions as to how English fire and rescue services could become more cost-effective and efficient in the future.

The report found that while incidents had reduced by 40 per cent in the last decade, the fire and rescue service could achieve greater cost savings by using different staffing models and...

The Chunk of Devon team celebrated the companies 10th anniversary on Friday 17th. Welcomed aboard the Pride of Exmouth, by the crew from Stuart Line Cruises , on a sunny June evening they were all dressed to kill for a casino/James Bond style party. Pretty much the whole team were able to be there with their partners.

Chunk of Devon had a few tricky times in the early days and even featured on the TV programme 'Businesses in Crisis' with Sir Gerry Robinson back in 2009. That's all behind them now.

Chunk is a busy growing company - supplying their pies, pasties, pork pies...

Leading British actors Jim Carter & Imelda Staunton are to join folk band Show of Hands in a special Battle of the Somme centenary concert in Exeter Cathedral on July 1st.

The concert comes at the end of a day of commemorations beginning with the unveiling of the UK’s biggest art project remembering every man who fell.

The 19240 Shrouds of the Somme Project aims to commemorate every single one of the 19,240 allied servicemen who fell on the first day of the Battle of the Somme.

At 7:30am, exactly 100 years to the minute from when the final whistle was blown to ‘...

The governors of Tipton St John Primary School have announced ambitious plans to re-locate their ageing, flood-prone buildings to a brand new site.

The Church of England school has been flooded on a number of occasions with children being evacuated and the school being shut for major clean-up operations.

The governors had applied to Education Minister Lord Nash for funding to re-locate the school within the village.

But they have now been told that the Government will not fund the move to another village site.

Now – following talks with the Diocese of Exeter...

Poor weather conditions have forced a planned road closure on the A361 North Devon Link Road to be postponed again.

The closure for resurfacing work between Bolham roundabout and Station Road, South Molton, was due to take place between 6am and 4pm from Tuesday 21 June to Thursday 23 June.

The work will be re-scheduled to take place in the coming weeks. Re-scheduled dates have yet to be confirmed but will be publicised in advance.

Advance information signs on site will be amended to display the revised closure dates and information on Devon County Council’s...

On Friday 17 June, Exeter Deaf Academy Governors, Trustees, staff and students were joined by the Right Honourable Exeter MP Ben Bradshaw and the Right Worshipful Lord Mayor of Exeter Cynthia Thompson.

English teacher, Deb Thomas was presented with the Silver Award for Excellence in Special Needs Teaching 2016 by the MP and Lord Mayor and is now one of the top six teachers in the UK in line to win a Pearson Teaching Award for 2016 Teacher of Year.

Deb now goes on to compete as a finalist for Teacher of the Year having been selected from hundreds of teaching professionals...

A digital marketing agency has created a full time position for its first apprentice following the successful completion of her course.

MiHi Digital, which was founded by Mark Worden from his living room on the Exeter Quayside almost three years ago, has grown exponentially year on year, seeing a 60% increase in new clients in the past 12 months and expanding its team as a result.

Former journalist Amelia Chubb joined MiHi Digital a year ago as the company’s first digital marketing apprentice. After successfully completing her twelve months of training, Amelia has now...

An Exeter Daily reader today blamed Westpoint for much of the traffic chaos ahead of Elton John's concery in Exeter last night.

Gary, from Yeovil, said the problems appeared to be due to the parking of vehicles once inside the ground.

In an email, he said: "One marshall told us that 'people had arrived in the wrong cars' suggesting that people were having difficulty parking on the wet grass unless they were in a 4x4.

"When we got near to the parking places it was obvious that there were very few stewards visible and there seemed to be no coordination whatsoever....