The Bowls Development Alliance (BDA) have announced that Active Devon, Devon's innovative County Sports Partnership have been successful in become a hotspot for bowls in the country.
They were one of just eight County Sports Partnerships to be awarded money from the BDA nationally.
Active Devon will spend the next two months identifying the best locations in which to focus opportunities with the most dynamic partners in the county in order for the hot spot funding to generate the maximum impact.
The main work begins in January 2016 and runs for an initial 12 month...
On Sunday 29 November The Donkey Sanctuary Sidmouth will be holding their annual Christmas Fair and Santa’s Grotto from 10:00am to 4:00pm. Come and kick-start your Christmas shopping, or simply treat yourself at this festive event!
The arena will be full of traders selling wonderfully unique, and in some cases delicious items and goods. Choose from a range of freshly cut Christmas trees, available to take away on the day.
Pick up some gorgeous gifts at the Christmas Fair! Everything from handmade original items to beautiful products from local artisans will be available...
Police are renewing their appeal for witnesses to a collision on the A30 at Okehampton in which two elderly people were seriously injured.
Emergency services were called around 6.05pm on Thursday 12 November after the collision between and a DAF large goods vehicle and a Volvo S80 on the westbound carriageway at Sourton.
The Volvo was reported to have broken down in lane one at the time of the collision and officers are keen to speak to anyone who witnessed the stationary car.
The occupants of the Volvo, an 84-year-old man and a 79-year-old woman from Launceston,...
As the race to Christmas picks up pace and sparkly trees and glitter start to appear in Exeter, Gandy Street will be buzzing with music and entertainers in their own seasonal festival: Countdown To Christmas.
From 5.30pm on Thursday November 26, Gandy Street’s independent traders will be holding an extraordinary pre-Christmas celebration shopping night with more than 20 businesses joining in the festivities. As well as discounts, promotions and offers galore, visitors to the street will be treated to goody bags, mince pies, mulled wine and all manner...
A 15-strong team of knitters from law firm Stephens Scown LLP have been brandishing their needles in aid of the Exeter office’s chosen charity, Age UK Exeter. Stephens Scown’s knitting club has knitted as many little woolly hats as possible for the Exeter branch of Age UK, in support of the charity’s nationwide campaign “the Big Knit”. The club, comprised of 15 knitters of mixed experience, have knitted 375 hats in total. The hats will be put on Innocent Smoothies bottles, which will be sold from February 2016. 25p from each bottle sold will go directly to Age UK. Many of the members had...
DCET Training specialises in Electrical Training qualifications specialising in high quality Apprenticeships and Traineeships as well as offering a wide range of commercial courses.
We are running a free 6 week Security Systems Traineeship from Monday 4th January 2016 based at our centre in Marsh Barton, Exeter.
The Traineeship is designed to prepare the candidate for a career in the security industry giving them the best possible chance of securing an apprenticeship and employment.
The candidate will gain theoretical knowledge and practical experience in a security...
Pioneering new research by the University of Exeter could pave the way for miniaturised optical circuits and increased internet speeds, by helping accelerate the ‘graphene revolution’.
Physicists from the University of Exeter in collaboration with the ICFO Institute in Barcelona have used a ground-breaking new technique to trap light at the surface of the wonder material graphene using only pulses of laser light.
Crucially, the team of scientists have also been able to steer this trapped light across the surface of the graphene, without the need for any nanoscale devices....
It’s easy to assume that domestic abuse is an issue that only affects partners or ex-partners within a relationship. However, an increasingly more common form of abuse, with potentially devastating results, is set to challenge those inherent beliefs.
Since 2011, in Devon alone, there have been two domestic homicide cases where the murderer is in fact the victim’s child. The child in question is not a young adolescent, but a grown-up adult child in their 20s or 30s.
The cases prompted the Safer Devon Partnership to launch an initiative to raise awareness of domestic abuse...
Francis Clark Financial Planning has recruited five new personnel to strengthen the Financial Services team, providing superior advice and support to private clients and firms throughout the South West.
Paul Greet joined FCFP as an Auto-Enrolment Consultant from JLT (Jardine Lloyd Thompson) in Exeter, where he worked for ten years in various client facing roles from developing occupational pension schemes through to administrative services.
Paul said “I’m delighted to be offered the opportunity to work for a leading local Financial Planning company who offer the highest...
A major £500,000 investment to reconstruct the A3052 near Sidmouth will get underway in January.
Trow Hill will be reconstructed and resurfaced between Steven’s Cross and Dunscombe Lane, as part of a seven week programme of essential maintenance unveiled by Devon County Council.
Ahead of the resurfacing work, drainage improvements are programmed to start from Monday 4 January 2016. This is anticipated to take three weeks to complete.
Councillor Stuart Hughes, Devon County Council Cabinet member for Highway Management and local member for Sidmouth and Sidford, said...
