Exeter School pupils, parents and staff are celebrating a record year for A Level results with an overall pass rate of 100% for the twelfth year in a row.
24% of all grades were A*, a record 68% of grades were either A* or A and a record 92% of all grades were A*, A or B.
50 pupils - over half of Exeter School’s Upper Sixth - achieved three or more A*/A grades this summer .
For the first time in Exeter School’s history, a pupil has succeeded in achieving an A*in five A Level subjects. Upper Sixth Former Seb Wright goes on to read Physics and Philosophy at Brasenose...
The team behind the seventh Budleigh Salterton Literary Festival are looking forward to welcoming more first class authors, historians and biographers to East Devon in September.
Tickets for this year’s festival will be available online on Friday 24th July from 5pm, and offer the opportunity to see the usual mix of best-selling, award winning and inspirational authors, including Paula Hawkins, author of record breaking novel, The Girl On The Train, which has been on top of the UK hardback book chart for 20 weeks.
As well as new authors like Paula making their way to the...
SouthWestfd, a team of consultant finance directors, are helping to nurture financial growth in Cornwall. Two companies that have experienced that growth are Mackerel Sky Events and Radix Communications.
Claire Eason Bassett, Managing Director of Mackerel Sky, a Creative Events Agency, heads a team of 12 with 3 offices spread across the south of England. Mackerel Sky started out with a traditional management structure and a small team of 5.
Back then Claire felt isolated as a director, she felt there was no one she could delegate to or turn to for advice. She added ‘I was...
Blundell’s School is delighted to announce a strong set of provisional A level results. In a year group of 87 pupils, 41% of the results gained were A*/A, 69% achieved A*/B grades and 87% gained A* - C grades.
Almost a quarter of the year group achieved three grade As or better at A level, with 25 pupils getting at least one A* or higher and 29 (a third) achieving grades of AAB or higher. The pass rate was 96%.
The four pupils who had been offered places at Oxford and Cambridge all met their offers: Ed Nash will read Medicine at Gonville and Caius, Cambridge; Run Zhao will...
Almost 50 businesses in Plymouth are getting free upgrades to their broadband and digital set-up as part of an exciting scheme promoted by Plymouth City Council.
This scheme is available to businesses and provides a voucher of up to £3,000 to be spent on improving broadband. More businesses are being encouraged to sign up.
Any small or medium-sized enterprise can apply for enhanced connectivity – including those who run businesses from home – and the vouchers can be used to pay for the upfront costs of connecting to superfast broadband or to business grade lines.
Children’s Hospice South West (CHSW) is delighted that ITV Westcountry reporter, Seth Conway, is going to be running Exeter’s Great West Run on behalf of the local children’s charity in October.
Seth ran his first marathon last year in Barnstaple, for which he also chose to run for CHSW. This year, as the official local charity for the Great West Run, he is pleased to continue his support for the charity and said: ‘Children’s Hospice South West is such an important charity for the local community, offering help and support to families all across the region.
Exeter BID Board is pleased to announce that an Area 5 representative has been appointed following a ballot among members in the area.
Ray Frame, Store Manager of Wilko will represent the Guildhall and Lower High Street, which has been named Area 5 of the Exeter BID area.
Due to employment relocation, BID Board member and Area 5 representative, James Clark had to resign from the Board in July this year, the Board held a re-ballot to find a replacement.
Applications were received and counted by solicitors Stephens Scown and all Area 5 BID levy payers were eligible to...
Many of the country’s 1.8 million small employers approaching their pensions auto-enrolment staging dates are in danger of missing deadlines by underestimating the amount of data needed to complete the process, warns Lighthouse Group, one of the UK’s leading financial advisers.
Tens of thousands of SMEs and micro employers are now starting to grapple with the complexities of employer pension schemes for the first time - and with 513,000 SMEs in South West England these business leaders are being urged to act now. The Pensions
Regulator recently stated that only 29 per cent...
Police have released two new images of 48-year-old Jayne Brocklehurst from Budleigh Salterton who has been missing since Saturday 8th August.
Jayne was last seen on Saturday evening at her family’s flat on Budleigh Salterton and is described as being a medium build and has mousey brown shoulder length hair.
Police Constable Liz Jarvis who is working on the search said: “Jayne had arrived from France around two weeks ago and had been visiting family in the area. Local searches continue in and around the costal paths in the Budleigh area.
Exeter College is seeking former students who can inspire and motivate the current generation to academic success, improve their career confidence and provide a valuable insight into the world of work.
The college is one of nearly 400 state schools and colleges across Britain which have registered with the education charity Future First to set up networks of former students or alumni whose talents they can harness to support today’s students.
Future First’s vision is that every state school or college should be supported by a thriving, engaged alumni community that helps it...
