An ambulance driver from Crediton has scooped a pair of VIP hospitality tickets to the Devon stage finish of the Tour of Britain 2016.
On Friday September 9 the world’s top cycling teams and riders will race from Sidmouth on the East Devon coast to the summit of Haytor on Dartmoor.
And Doug Bosley, who works for WAFA Emergency Medical Vehicles, will be able to watch the finish in style after winning a prize draw held by stage six hosts Devon County Council.
The draw was held at the beginning of National Bike Week (6- and the tickets give Doug and one other full...
Exeter-based Flybe this morning announced pre-tax annual profits of £2.7m.
The figure compares with a loss of £35.6m the previous year and was helped, in part, by cheaper fuel prices.
The company said there had been an 8.2% increase in passenger revenue and 5.9% increase in passenger numbers but that conditions remained "challenging".
Saad Hammad, chief executive, who is steering the company through a three year turnaround plan said: "We delivered top-line growth in a difficult revenue environment, expanding our network and carrying more passengers than last year...
Near term expectations for South West house prices turned slightly negative for the first time since 2013 according to the latest Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) Residential Market Survey.
The survey shows house prices in central London falling while prices are continuing to climb modestly across the rest of the UK. In the South West 25% more respondents said prices had risen rather than fallen over the last three months. This figure has fallen in each month since February when 73% more respondents reported a rise rather than a fall in prices.
Leading independent wholesaler M.J. Baker Foodservice completed record-breaking sales at its annual foodservice trade show. The Newton Abbot-based firm, which runs the biggest foodservice event in the West Country, concluded deals worth more than £600,000 at the event at Newton Abbot Racecourse. More than 700 foodservice professionals, including leading independent food manufacturers from across Devon, Cornwall, Bristol and Somerset, and some of the UK’s leading suppliers, attended the show, which smashed the £500,000 sales mark set in 2015. The trade show, which was free to visit,...
A study commissioned by Devon County Council has looked into the reasons why some children miss school due to anxiety.
The findings are helping the Council provide practical advice and information to schools in order that they can better support students, enabling them to keep up their attendance.
Educational Psychologists conducted the study as part of a wider exploration of ‘anxiety based school avoidance’ across Devon.
Their report acknowledges that students miss school, or find it hard to attend, for various reasons such as following a period of illness or...
An exhibition of beautiful early 19th-century illustrations of Indian flora exploring the plants’ usage in traditional Ayurvedic and modern medicine.
In the late 18th and early 19th centuries the East India Company controlled much of the Indian subcontinent. Keen to exploit and export valuable natural commodities, the Company set out to record the flora of India and commissioned Indian artists to create detailed botanical illustrations.
Many of the plants were known through their use in Ayurvedic medicine. One of the world’s oldest medicinal systems, it has been practiced...
Exeter Respect returns to the city on Saturday 11th June and Sunday 12th June 2016. Our diversity festival has grown dramatically along with the diversity of the city’s population, and provides a great, safe, space in which more communities than ever before can come and celebrate and share their cultures.
Exeter Respect is the city's annual celebration of diversity where we use the performing and creative arts to engage the wider community in sayign no to racism and all forms of prejudice. The Respect ethos is a simple one: racism and prejudice often spring from fear, and fear is...
A sharp new take on a classic Greek myth, this is a bitterly funny story of love, loss and eating your way out of grief. As the audience are transformed into the gods of legend, will Orpheus ever escape his past?
Martin Bonger delivers a gripping solo performance in this black comedy that bridges the everyday with the celestial.
‘So the mum carried it and pushed it out and that. But does anyone say to the dad, ‘What high quality sperms you have?’ No they do not. An’ those nine months are long. Seriously talking about calling her ‘Ariadne’, ‘Bentley’ or ‘Oceana’, so you are literally delighted with ‘Bowie’ for the easy life…’
Leo’s seventeen. He’s got college, a healthy right-swipe-rate on Tinder and a six-month-old.
He’s mashing avocado and buying Pampers over own-brand because of the more reliable gusset. Leo’s on the triple shift of school, work and night feeds and wants to be a dad in every...
Amy’s making a play. It’s an experiment. It’s about motherhood.
Amy Golding is an award-winning theatre-maker whose work has been seen across the UK and in South Africa.
As Artistic Director of Curious Monkey, Amy makes shows from real stories, told to her by real people.
Now she’s making her own story. It’s about the before, the now and the what might be.
In Preggers, Amy attempts to work out motherhood – what does it really mean? For women now and for women of previous generations. Her mother’s unconventional approach to family life was captured by a 1979...
