Berry Recruitment in Exeter has expanded into bigger offices as the economy in the West Country continues to improve with more jobs being created.
The recruitment experts are now based on the Pynes Hill Business Park with potential to add to the team of specialists.
Included within the more attractive premises are areas for candidate training and additional interviewing facilities.
Recent figures from the Office for National Statistics show that the West Country has the highest employment rate of any region in the country – at 77 per cent – as well as the lowest...
Mock the Week star Ed Byrne is an established touring favourite, and despite his youthful looks the Irishman recently marked up 20 years as a comic. His latest show of observational comedy, Outside, Looking In, covers a wide range of subjects – from a recent gastric illness to the success of UKIP – but he talks a lot about his family and it's his most personal yet.
“I didn't make a conscious effort to write a more personal show, but that was what was coming out when I started writing it,” Ed says. “People come to see me for a laugh and I would like to think they go away thinking...
Winner of Best Comedy at the 2014 Olivier Awards and following an award-winning run at the West End’s Duke of York’s Theatre, the effervescent, aristocratic fool Bertie Wooster and his dutiful valet, Jeeves arrive in Exeter in the critically acclaimed stage play Jeeves & Wooster in Perfect Nonsense.
When a country house weekend takes a turn for the worse, Bertie Wooster is unwittingly called on to play matchmaker, but also to steal a silver cow creamer from Totleigh Towers. Naturally, the ever dependable Jeeves is there to prevent Bertie from making a fool of himself in front...
Just days after securing the long-term futures of Sam Hill and Tomas Francis, Exeter Chiefs head coach Rob Baxter has moved swiftly to tie down another of his first team squad until 2017.
Keen to ensure continuity within the playing ranks at Sandy Park, Baxter has now added Australian forward Mitch Lees to those extending their stay with the Aviva Premiership club.
Lees, 26, joined the Chiefs ahead of the 2014/15 season from London Welsh and quickly established himself as a key figure in Baxter’s plan, featuring in 24 games last season.
British actress turned bestselling author, Sarah Winman, is the latest name to join the literary line up for this year’s Budleigh Salterton Literary Festival.
Due to unforeseen circumstances, the festival has announced that Liza Klaussmann is no longer able to appear at the festival on Saturday 19th September. Organisers are delighted that author Sarah Winman has agreed to step in at the last minute, to discuss her second novel A Year of Marvellous Ways.
Sarah’s first novel, When God was a Rabbit, was released in 2011 and was an instant Sunday Times bestseller in both...
East Devon District Council proudly flew the Red Ensign at exactly 10am on Thursday 3 September at Knowle, Sidmouth, in commemoration of Merchant Navy Day, to help raise awareness of the UK’s ongoing dependence on Merchant Navy seafarers.
The council was supporting a nationwide call from the Seafarers UK charity and the Merchant Navy Association for the UK Merchant Navy’s official flag to be flown on public buildings and landmark flagstaffs. More than 400 local authorities throughout the UK were invited by Seafarers UK and the Merchant Navy Association to participate in ‘Fly the...
Join us for a splendid evening of choral music with soloists Beatrice Acland, Olivia Jane Gomez, Andrew Henley, Julian Rippon, accompanied by Peter Foggitt (piano) and Andrew Millington (organ) under the direction of Laurence Blyth. Tickets £10 (NUS students £5, accompanied under 16's free) to include refreshments and a programme. Box office: Exeter Visitor Information & Tickets, 01392 665885 - remaining tickets will be sold on the door.
In terms of a first outing, it had a bit of everything, but Rob Baxter knows there is still plenty to work on for his Exeter Chiefs ahead of the new 2015/16 season.
Five tries in attack were certainly the key highlights, but shipping six in defence was somewhat of an issue for the experienced Exeter leader at the final whistle which saw the Chiefs victorious by 41 to 38.
Of course he will focus on both the good and the bad over the coming weeks, but it was the former which far exceeded the latter in terms of the overall package in this exciting West Country Challenge Cup...
EXETER CITY put four past League 2 leaders Leyton Orient at St James Park to end the visitors' one hundred per cent record at the top of Sky Bet League 2.
Two Tom Nichols penalties joined goals from Alex Nicholls and David Wheeler as City put in their most convincing display so far this season.
In the absence of Joel Grant (international duty) and Will Hoskins (knock), Exeter City manager Paul Tisdale welcomed Tom Nichols and Christian Ribeiro back from thier respective injuries with places in the starting line-up for the visit of table-topping Leyton Orient. Alex Nicholls...
Despite reaching ‘peak beard’ last year, their ubiquity shows no sign of abating; facial hair remains the defining look for a generation of modern men.
Now, coinciding with World Beard Day (September 5 2015), a University of Exeter expert will take a look back at beards throughout history, in a major three-year project funded by the Wellcome Trust.
Dr Alun Withey, an expert in medical history, is launching “Do Beards Matter?”, which will study facial hair and its relationship to health and hygiene in Britain between 1700 and 1918, a period of extremes in facial hair trends...
