Devon and Cornwall’s Police and Crime Commissioner has today (24th June) launched a campaign for fair funding in the fight against crime in the South West. Tony Hogg is challenging the Government to change the way cash is allocated to police forces across the country. He says Devon and Cornwall is systematically disadvantaged by a scandalous funding formula that favours big city police forces. “It is time to make the voice of the South West heard. London based civil servants need to understand the anger of the local population that receives less money for its policing and other important...
The Venus Experience will allow nominees and women who are interested in entering the awards to participate in a question and answer session about the nomination and application process.
The event, which will take place on Thursday 25th June 2015 at The Imperial Pub on New North Road, is open to all who have already entered or who are thinking of entering. This will allow women to network with other prospective nominees, have their questions answered and find out more about the Venus Awards 2015.
This networking opportunity is new for 2015 and organisers hope that it will...
A Devon photographer has won a national zoo photography award.
Ray Wiltshire, from Paignton, took the award with his picture, Forty Winks, showing Bornean orang utan mother Mali and baby Tatau asleep on their island at Paignton Zoo.
The British and Irish Association of Zoos and Aquariums (BIAZA) announced the winners of its annual photography competition sponsored by Wildlife Vets International at an award ceremony hosted by Woburn Safari Park. There were 63 entries, with shots conveying life in a BIAZA collection, work behind the scenes and zoo conservation work around the...
Devon Wildlife Trust is delighted to announce the birth of kits born to the first wild colony of beavers in England.
The births signal the latest chapter in a story which has attracted great support from the local community.
Devon Wildlife Trust is leading the River Otter Beaver Trial in partnership with landowner Clinton Devon Estates, the University of Exeter and the Derek Gow Partnership. Devon Wildlife Trust’s Mark Elliott said: “We are thrilled that the beavers have bred. The baby kits appear fit and healthy and the adults seem as if they are taking their parenting...
National charity Living Streets, which campaigns for pedestrians, today welcomes North Dorset MP Simon Hoare’s Private Member’s Bill calling for a ban on pavement parking in England and Wales.
The bill will receive its first reading in the House of Commons today.
Living Streets’ Chief Executive Joe Irvin said: ‘We have been campaigning for years to reclaim our pavements for pedestrians and we are delighted that this important issue is finally being addressed after being delayed twice in the last Parliament.
“Pavements are for people, not vehicles and it is about...
Big thanks to Debbie from Mad Cakes for launching our Big Devon Bake Off – she popped into our Exeter hospice with these amazing Lego cakes!
Our Hospiscare staff and volunteers enjoyed tucking into these cute little fellas raising £26, which is the first money in our Bake Off kitty.
Debbie also gave cakes to our friends and colleagues at the RD&E Bramble children’s ward; we’re based at Dryden Road, opposite the RD&E. Mad Cakes will be hosting a Hospiscare bake off for children later in the summer, keep an eye on our website for an update: www.hospiscare.co.uk...
Exeter’s annual Halloween Zombie Ball returns to The Lemongrove Exeter on Friday 30th October with its strongest line up to date.
Headliners Young Guns will be joined with the likes of Feed The Rhino, The Dirty Youth, Forever Never ,The One Hundred and more split over 2 stages.
Now in its sixth year organisers The Mike James Rock Show say that this regional showcase has caught the attention of more national acts with bands asking if they can be added to the line up.
"We still have a few surprises in store that we are yet to announce," said Mike & Dann the key...
An Exeter-based stove manufacturer and supplier has acquired new premises with the support of a tailored six-figure loan from Lloyds Bank Commercial Banking.
Formed in 1996, after acquiring the design rights and existing stock of the Hunter Stoves brand, Hunter Stoves offers trade customers 200 different designs of wood burning and multi-fuel stoves. The 14,000 stoves the company produces each year are exported across Europe, South Africa, New Zealand and Japan.
Over the past two decades, the company has launched six new brands as well as acquiring the Parkray brand. At the...
