Over the weekend of the 19th & 20th March, Paul and Rosemary Sowden are hosting an Open Garden event at Saffron Court in Chudleigh to raise funds for local charity Rainbow Living. Saffron Court, a 1.3 acre Parkland garden with views over the Teign Valley, will be bursting with an abundance of snowdrops, primroses, daffodils and bluebells during the 2-day event. The venue includes a children’s play area; it is accessible for those with reduced mobility and is also dog friendly. Guests will be able to enjoy cream teas and take part in a raffle. There will also be a plant sale, including...
Chancellor George Osborne is expected to use his Budget speech to call for an extension to school days.
Schools will be able to bid for funding for extra activities like sport and art.
Mr Osborne's will also pledge that every school in England will be removed from local authority control.
Schools will either have to have converted by 2020 or have an academy order in place by then.
For any school that fails to have a plan in place, the government will take on radical new powers to intervene and ensure academy conversion takes place.
Overnight closures will be needed at the Exeter Road/Turks Head Junction in Honiton this week as the improvement scheme nears completion.
The junction, which connects the western end of Honiton to the A30 dual carriageway, is being converted to a mini roundabout from the existing “give way” arrangement.
The upgrade is expected to be completed by the end of this month and the final stage of the scheme, which involves resurfacing the road, will be carried out during overnight road closures on the evenings of Wednesday (16 March), Thursday (17 March) and Friday (18 March). The...
A hardworking legal team from The Family Law Company is celebrating after winning the coveted Team of the Year Award at the inaugural DASLS Awards.
The team found out that they were the winners during the awards ceremony held at Sandy Park.
The Family Law Company Director Jane Chanot who heads up the team, which is based in Exeter and Plymouth said: "I was completely taken by surprise and extremely proud when we were called up to accept the award.
"There was an amazing number of legal luminaries at the event, and we were all rather in awe. To be amongst the award...
A Devon medispa has scooped the top accolade at the industry’s most prestigious award ceremony.
Radiance MediSpa, on New North Road in Exeter, has won Medical Aesthetic Clinic of the Year at the Professional Beauty Awards 2016.
Up against the very best salon spas across the country, Dr Ros Debenham’s Radiance MediSpa was the number one choice of the judges in the Medical Aesthetic Clinic of the Year category. The award recognises companies who deliver excellent service in providing treatments such as Botox, dermal fillers, fat freezing and laser treatments for customers....
On 16th March, Families for Children, along with many adoption agencies across England, will be opening their doors simultaneously to enquiring adopters and hosting a Big Adoption Day, a national adoption information event.
There will be over 30 events being held across England and their aim is to reinforce the message that adopters continue to be needed for our most vulnerable children in the care system.
Prospective adopters attending a Big Adoption Day will have the opportunity to meet adoption experts in an informal and friendly environment. As well as being able to ask...
A new study has found that twice as many people than previously thought may be living with genetic condition that can cause a deadly heart attack at a young age.
Research, published in the journal Circulation, looked at 37,000 people from the US and found that Familial Hypercholesterolemia (FH) prevalence should be one in 250 rather than the previous estimate of one in 500.
FH is a genetic condition which results in high levels of cholesterol in your blood from birth. This increases a person’s risk of suffering from a heart attack or heart disease at an early age if left...
WINNING top awards for their produce has secured local farmers Neil and Sally Grigg a feature in a prestigious national magazine.
Neil and Sally, who run a farm near Broadclyst, are featured in this week’s Country Life magazine.
The couple are tenants on a 400 acre National Trust farm which is part of the Killerton Estate, where they have been farming their own herd of Red Ruby cattle since 2007. This month’s Country Life, features them talking about their entry into farming, following careers as an accountant and rural surveyor.
Social enterprise subgroup of Exeter Chamber of Commerce, ESSENCE, will be holding Exeter’s First Social Pitch Night on Wednesday 13th April at The Generator, Dix’s Field from 4pm.
ESSENCE is an active peer-support network for social enterprises and co-operatives, social businesses and those that support social aims.
The evening will be host to businesses across the city interested in the social enterprise sector and will give the chance to hear a range of social start up ideas and new project/product launches from a range of local organisations keen to win prizes and...
Paul McCartney once famously said ‘If slaughterhouses had glass walls, we would all be vegetarians’… but of course they don’t, and most people remain unaware of the lives and deaths of animals bred for food. But now all that is changing with Animal Equality becoming the first animal protection group in the world to transport people inside factory farms and slaughterhouses via virtual reality technology.
Exeter will be the first stop for the international organisation’s iAnimal project, a virtual reality experience filmed over the past 18 months inside pig farms in the UK, Germany...
