Devon's leading independent trade supplier of tools and equipment to general light industrial businesses has strengthened its management team with a new senior appointment.
Cath Mullin has joined Parkins as its new sales director with a remit to drive the sales strategy forward for the company including all routes to market.
Before joining Parkins Cath spent 18 years at timber and builders' merchant giant Travis Perkins, working her way up from trainee to director of customer services responsible for around a third of the UK.
The award-winning Mark Bruce Company, whose critically acclaimed dance theatre production of Dracula performed to sellout audiences across the country in 2013 and 2014, including Exeter, bring their brand new production THE ODYSSEY to Exeter Northcott Theatre on April 11th and 12th.
THE ODYSSEY, Homer’s epic poem written over two thousand years ago, is given the Mark Bruce Company dance theatre treatment; a dramatic, rich re-telling of the ten year journey undertaken by Odysseus after the fall of Troy. During his struggle to return home the King, (Christopher Tandy) faces the wrath...
Following its recent inspection in February 2016 the Maynard School in Exeter is thrilled to have achieved the highest possible “excellent” rating for teaching by the Independent Schools Inspectorate (ISI), the Ofsted equivalent for independent schools.
Headmistress, Bee Hughes, is delighted by the report findings: “It’s a fantastic outcome for the School and reiterates everything that we, and so many others, already know. The five main categories were judged to be excellent but equally important to us was that the ISI found that both parents and pupils, responding to the pre-...
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...
