Rangers at Devon County Council’s Grand Western Canal are celebrating after receiving a new work boat donated by generous residents.
The Friends of the Grand Western Canal bought the new boat and outboard engine with money raised following the breaching of the Halberton embankment in 2012.
The boat, which is very stable and virtually indestructible, will be used by the canal’s rangers for accessing offside banks to carry out inspections and maintenance work including clearing debris and recovering fishing tackle lost in the branches of trees so it doesn’t cause harm to the...
An Exeter language school has teamed up with a Torbay-based work placement company to forge a new partnership set to bring business benefits to both.
The Globe English Centre, based at St David’s Hill in Exeter, provides English classes to people who want to learn it as their second language. The Training Partnership (TTPL) works with hundreds of Devon firms to provide placements in different sectors for trainees from across Europe and beyond.
The new partnership will see TTPL offer Globe’s teaching programmes to complement its own teaching packages and work placements,...
People with disabilities are invited to experience a festival of activities at Blue Light Day tomorrow (Wednesday 29 July).
The event will be held at St Lukes Science and Sports College, Exeter.
Supported by Devon and Cornwall Police and other public, private and charitable organisations, the theme of the day is ‘be healthy, be active and be safe’.
The event, which is the first of its kind in Exeter, aims to help people with disabilities keep safe and become more confident and independent in their community. It hopes to help break down any barriers that exist...
The works of an engineer turned professional artist who creates enchanting paintings inspired by the English countryside will be on display at an Exeter gallery this month.
Acclaimed painter Paul Corfield presented his charming new collection of land and seascapes at Castle Fine Art on Cathedral Yard on Saturday 25th July. The exhibition will be available to view for two weeks until Sunday 9th August.
An artist always at heart, Corfield started sketching at a young age and secured a place at art college, but decided to turn it down to make a living in the aerospace...
Leading local advice charity, Exeter Citizens Advice Bureau, is welcoming an overall 39% decrease in repossession cases listed at Exeter County Court in the 3-month period ending 30th June 2015. This is in comparison with the same period last year.
Across all housing sectors, where a CAB adviser has assisted clients facing repossession, clients have avoided repossession in over 90% of cases.
Exeter City Council has provided financial support for this essential service.
Steve Barriball, Exeter Citizens Advice Bureau Chief Executive, said: “We have at least one...
Children will have the chance to clamber on fire engines, get locked inside a police car and inspect an ambulance and first responder vehicle at an Emergency Services Blue Light Day, which takes place at Challaborough Bay Holiday Park on Saturday August 8th.
The event is free to attend and takes place between 10am and 4pm and is being held to heighten awareness of Devon’s emergency services.
Organiser Pete Watts, Watch Manager from Modbury fire station, said: “It’s a really fantastic opportunity for families to come along and find out all about the emergency services and...
Lord Sugar may be king of The Apprentice, but a Devon dealership has been doing its bit over the past three decades to help local people into work.
JFE Exeter Nissan, part of the Wellington Motor Group, currently has seven team members who started out as apprentices – and are still working at the Marsh Barton Trading Estate.
EV Technician Steve Horwell is the longest-serving, having been employed at the dealership for 28 years. He helped train Service Manager Pete Lascelles, who joined shortly after him.
Elsewhere, Jamie Kennedy and James Manning have chalked up 11...
Watch this tribute to the cheeky boys of pop battle it out in our fantastic afternoon of FREE entertainment in the Pavilion Gardens on Sat 29th August from 2pm.
In the event of wet weather the show will take place in the main auditorium.
Based on Melvyn Bragg's stirring novel of Cumbrian rural and industrial working life, set in the first quarter of the twentieth century, The Hired Man tells the true story of one family's - Bragg's grandparents' -journey from land labourers to colliers and back to the land.
Set against the background of working class ritual-whippet racing, hiring fairs, hunting, drinking bouts, union meetings-the musical brings alive that cavalcade of British history which swept us into a new century and a war to end all wars.
Howard Goodall's superb score is strong in the British choral...
The Circus of Horrors. the show that stormed into the finals of Britain's Got Talent returns with a specially designed cabaret styled show, entitled Freaks & Feathers.
The opulent surroundings of each of the chosen venues means in theory everybody will get a ringside seat. Wherever you are sat inside the venue you are sure to be close to the action, there will literally be freaks, feathers all around you.
The freaky element of the show consists of the Royal family of Freaks. Led by Circus of Horrors undead Ringmaster Doktor Haze with Captain Dan, the demon dwarf, The...
