Exeter Golf and Country Club is celebrating a double win at the Devon LTA (Lawn Tennis Association) Awards.
Head of Rackets, James Temple was awarded 'Young Tennis Coach of the Year', with trainee coach Tom Slack winning 'Volunteer of the Year'. Exeter Golf and Country Club was a finalist for the prestigious 'Club of the Year'.
James has worked as a tennis coach since the age of 16. He stared coaching in Wiltshire before moving to Devon, working at Exeter Tennis Centre, Victoria Park and Exwick Tennis Club before joining Exeter Golf and Country Club in 2011.
Landlords’ confidence in the buy to let (BTL) sector has collapsed to an all-time low and is now ‘worse than levels witnessed during the financial crash’, the CEO of the UK’s largest landlord association will tell leading mortgage professionals today (2nd February 2016).
Richard Lambert, Chief Executive Officer of the National Landlords Association (NLA), will tell delegates at the Building Societies Association’s (BSA) annual meet-up for mortgage professionals that confidence in landlords’ business expectations has tumbled by more than a third over the past year – down from 67 per...
Celebrated athlete and popular broadcaster, Colin Jackson CBE, has been confirmed as the guest speaker at this year’s Devon Sports Awards.
Colin is regarded as one of the greatest athletes in the history of British Athletics, ranking in the top ten hurdlers in the world for two decades and retaining the 110m record for thirteen years. Since retiring in 2002, Colin has become a popular broadcaster, particularly as part of the BBC Athletics team. Colin was also a finalist in Strictly Come Dancing in 2005.
Chairman of the Exeter Foundation, Tony Rowe OBE, said: “We’re...
Devon war memorials are among hundreds to be listed over the last year through Historic England’s pledge to protect 2,500 memorials by 2018, marking the centenary of the First World War.
Sidmouth War Memorial, Church Lane, Sidmouth http://bit.ly/1nYOu8u
War Memorial in the Churchyard of the Church of St John the Evangelist, Bovey Tracey http://bit.ly/202EPtl
Newton Abbot War Memorial, Queen Street, Newton Abbot http://bit.ly/1nYQ6iC
Meavy War Memorial, West Devon http://bit.ly/1nYQD3Z
Steve French, an ex-serviceman from Exeter, will take on Exeter’s Rock Solid Race in March to raise money for Scotty’s Little Soldiers, a leading charity that helps bereaved British Forces children smile again.
Steve, 28, now a restaurant manager, was touring with the Army when Lee Scott, the inspiration behind the charity and father-of-two, was killed in Afghanistan after his vehicle hit an IED.
He will be running the obstacle event with partner Emily and the pair are hoping to raise up to £700 for the national children’s charity. It’s the second time Steve will be...
Francis Clark’s annual Finance in the South West event, now in its 4th year running, will be taking place on Tuesday 23rd February from 08:00 to 14:00 at Exeter Racecourse. The
Seminar brings together specialists representing funding and business support available to businesses in the Heart of the South West LEP area.
This year the keynote speaker will be Radio 4 business and economics journalist Jonty Bloom.
Research has indicated that there is a significant funding gap between funding available from traditional sources of funding and actual business requirements...
Communities across Devon are being called on to vote for this year’s recycling heroes.
The fourth Recycle Devon Thank You Awards is being held next month, and this year residents can vote online.
Vote for your favourite shortlisted candidate at: http://www.recycledevon.org/have-your-vote up until 8 February.
This year there have been 61 nominations in categories Your Recycling Hero, School Recycling Hero, Community Group recycling hero, Collection Crew/Operative, Recycling Centre Operative staff and Small Business Champion.
A new study from the online journal Heart suggests a link between the tendency to become easily stressed in adolescents and a heightened risk of developing high blood pressure in later life.
The research looked at more than 1.5 million 18-year-old men with normal blood pressure, who had been conscripted to the army in Sweden between 1969 and 1997 until the end of 2012 and were assessed for their levels of stress resilience.
At the end of the study, those who were more prone to stress a at the age of 18 were associated with a heightened risk of high blood pressure.
Teignbridge District Council has launched a new campaign ‘Don’t be a Dumper’ that aims to get people to pick up after their pooch and reduce the amount of dog mess that is left on the sands and seafront areas of local resorts.
Throughout this week (Monday February 1 to Friday February 5) Teignbridge’s resorts staff will be using glow in the dark temporary spray paint to mark dog mess on the promenade areas. Dog wardens will be out in force and will fine anyone who is seen not picking up. On Friday Feb 5 there will be a big clear up to remove what’s been left behind.
