The Northern Devon Healthcare NHS Trust is delighted to announce the appointment of Dr Nicola Ryley as interim director of nursing.

Nicola joined the Trust this week from Aneurin Bevan University Health Board in South Wales, where she had been assistant director of nursing for five years.

Nicola was responsible for the leadership and professional regulation of over 6,000 nursing and allied staff at the Health Board, one of the largest and most complex integrated NHS organisations in the UK.

She has held senior clinical, operational and leadership roles across a...

Every Spring and Autumn Freemasons from around Devon gather to give support totalling £40,000 to local organisations who are in need of assistance, among which this year included Families for Children who support adopted children and their families throughout the South West.

The money is raised through the “WAKE Fund” a trust conceived by the Right Worshipful Brother William Alexander Kneel, our Provincial Grand Master from 1970 to 1984, the late owner of Kneels laundry & dry cleaners. This fund now stands at £1.8 million the interest earned is given annually to local non...

Christmas is only weeks away, and soon your house will be bustling with guests. It's time to get that guest room ready so your friends and family can actually enjoy their stay. Don't leave preparing the guest room to the last minute. You will be in for more than a few unpleasant surprises. Start early by following these tips to add functionality and looks to your guest room:

Start by Cleaning

Removing the clutter is the first step to making any room in your home welcome to guests. If guest rooms remain unoccupied for months, as they often are, they eventually gather things...

A Plymouth University spin out venture founded on breakthrough research into the efficiency of photovoltaic solar panels has received significant investment following a first round of fundraising.

PulsiV Solar has been backed with £500,000 of investment to continue its development of technology that significantly improves the amount of energy generated by solar panel inverters, which is then harvested for supply to the grid.

Based on the Plymouth Science Park, the company will now accelerate product development, enabling it to embark upon further prototyping and testing in...

A powerful and heart-warming film about a group of Syrian refugee women is being shown at the University of Exeter.

A free screening of Yasmin Fedda’s award-winning documentary ‘Queens of Syria’, is being hosted by the University of Exeter’s Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies and Department of Theology on Thursday 12 November, and is open for everyone to attend.

The film follows a 2013 theatre project run with Syrian women who are living in exile as they prepare to perform the ancient Greek tragedy, ‘The Trojan Woman’; a play that although separated by two thousand years...

Leading Devon law firm Stephens Scown LLP has won a prestigious Excellence in Marketing and Communications award in the Law Society Excellence Awards 2015.

Stephens Scown, which has offices in Exeter, beat off stiff competition from other firms around the country to scoop the award at a glittering ceremony held at the Hilton Hotel on Park Lane in London last week.

The Law Society, which is the independent professional body for solicitors throughout England and Wales, praised the firm for “using local insight on issues that mattered to the local community” and making sure...

Stagecoach have unexpectedly brought forward the start date for work on the new bus depot at Matford, meaning a temporary closure of the weekly Sunday market and car boot sale at the Exeter Livestock Centre.

This week's market (Sunday 2 November) will be the last until the new year, with the market re-opening on Sunday 3 January.

It had been expected that the works on the depot would start in February and the market would have been able to operate alongside it. However the Livestock Centre is currently undergoing major works to replace its roof and install solar panels, two...

Police in Exeter are appealing for the public’s help to trace a 23-year-old man who is wanted for recall to prison.

Corey Soper, (pictured) was originally charged with theft, but has failed to comply with the conditions of his license as part of his probation. Numerous enquiries have been made by police to try and locate him.

Police are asking the public for information about his whereabouts and to report any sighting to them.

Soper has connections to Exeter, Devon and Cornwall.

He is described as being 5ft 8 in height, of proportionate build and with...

Essential work is planned on traffic signals in Exeter next week.

Maintenance replacement work is planned on the traffic signals at the Gordon’s Lamp Junction in Heavitree from Monday 2nd November 2015.

Gordon’s Lamp Junction is the junction of Magdalen Road and Fore Street.

This Devon County Council scheme is expected to be completed on Friday 20th November 2015.

This work will be coordinated with the works at Butts Road to minimise the signals costs, by treating the replacements as one scheme.

The traffic signals, poles and electrics – which are at...