South West public relations consultancy KOR Communications has won a major contract to deliver strategic communications advice and services to an international project which will see electricity flowing between France, the Channel Islands and the UK.
The Exeter-based consultancy is providing communications and engagement support to the FAB Project which aims to build a subsea and underground interconnector linking the French and British national grids.
The cables will run from the Cherbourg peninsula in France to East Devon via the Channel Island of Alderney where they will...
The number of Job Seeker’s Allowance (JSA) claimants in Devon fell to 3,237 during May, the lowest on record.
In Devon the total number of claimants fell 75 when compared to the previous month April.
Seven of Devon’s eight districts experiencing small falls in JSA, ranging between 6 and 8 claimants. Exeter being the exception, with a rise of just 5 claimants over the period.
The claimant rate (proportion of the county’s working age population claiming JSA) remained largely unchanged, South Hams and West Devon falling by just 0.1%.
Exeter Junior School enjoyed its inaugural Year 5 Careers Morning on 17 June.
This year, the focus was on 'how we use science in our jobs' with three interactive sessions run by PC Nick Taylor, Civils Manager and past pupil Jerry Bricknell and Alice Mills, the Ogden Science Outreach Officer for the College of Engineering, Mathematics and Physical Sciences at the University of Exeter.
PC Nick had pupils taking their finger prints and looking at the unique patterns found on them and linked this to genetic finger printing used by the police.
The UK’s membership of the European Union has helped boost job creation and growth in the South West for more than forty years, with as many as 250,000 jobs in the region currently linked to exports to the Single Market, the CBI argues.
According to figures from HM Treasury, there is the potential to create 74,340 future jobs for the South West if the UK remains in the EU, and continues to deepen economic ties with its member states.
Several key sectors in the region depend on the Single Market:
83,960 manufacturing jobs in the South West are linked to UK
The Donkey Sanctuary’s Car Show in Sidmouth is back on Sunday 3 July from 10am to 2pm, and it’s bigger than ever.
After the success of the first Car Show in 2015, The Donkey Sanctuary is pleased to announce that they will be running another show in July! At last year’s show they were host to over 300 fantastic cars from humble Austins to exotic Lamborghinis and this year’s show is set to be even better.
The Donkey Sanctuary Car Show brings car fanatics of all types together. As well as getting to see the cars on show, there will be trade stands and refreshments on offer....
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...
