Julie Waddell, award-winning food entrepreneur and creator of the market leading gourmet humous brand Moorish, is to launch the first and only food and drink business academy in the UK.

New Home Office funding proposals would have a ‘catastrophic’ effect on Devon and Cornwall Police According to Andrew White, chief executive in the Office of the Police and Crime Commissioner, Devon and Cornwall could lose 200 more front line police officers if Government plans to change the way it funds forces go ahead. Tony Hogg’s team has now scrutinised the Government’s proposed revisions to its allocation formula for police funding. Based on the information provided so far, potential cuts to the money Devon and Cornwall receives centrally would be around £11 million a year “If these...

Aviva Investors, the global asset management business of Aviva plc (‘Aviva’) formally confirmed today (13 August 2015) that “The Terrace” - A Craft Brew Bar and Gourmet Burger Kitchen (GBK) will be opening next year in Exeter's exciting new Queen St dining quarter.

The Terrace and GBK have now signed contracts with Aviva Investors, bringing the Queen St restaurant count up to 4, joining Turtle Bay and The Stable which have been announced previously.

Aviva are also in discussions with tenants for all the remaining units, and have revised the layout of the scheme and...

Michele Campagnaro says he cannot wait to pull on an Exeter Chiefs jersey after sealing a move to the Aviva Premiership club from Italian Pro12 outfit Benetton Treviso.

The Devon club confirmed back in February that the gifted Italian international would be joining them on a two-year deal following the culmination of this autumn’s Rugby World Cup.

However, the 22-year-old appears eager to get started with his new club and having made a brief whistle-stop visit to Sandy Park this week, he admits the excitement is already building for him about his new adventure.

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The Exeter based cycling club Exeter Wheelers played an integral part in the filming of the SPACE; a road safety video created by Chris Boardman and BikeBiz editor Carlton Reid.

The video titled SPACE has now gone viral online with over 45,000 views in less than 24 hours aims to educate drivers on how much room a cyclist or group of riders need when overtaking them.

As Boardman points out, riders aren't just an obstacle to be avoided, they are people's loved ones.

Filmed on the Devon Travel Academy test circuit at the Westpoint centre the video features...

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.

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