The number of Job Seeker’s Allowance (JSA) claimants in Devon decreased in line with the national trend between February and March 2015, falling by 242 claimants (5% lower than February’s figure).
The total number of claimants in March came to 4,297, or just 0.9% of the working age population of Devon. To put this into context, there has been a 34% fall in claimants between March 2013-2015 - the claimant count having more than halved since March 2013 when total claimants stood at 9,603.
Similarly all of Devon’s eight districts experienced a decrease in claimants of around a...
Devon County Council’s Library Service has reached a long awaited milestone with the transfer of its building in Topsham to the Estuary League of Friends.
The community group were keen to respond to a growing need for their services in the area by providing a modern fit for purpose community hub in a central location and approached the Council in 2013 to discuss the opportunity of working together to redevelop Topsham Library into a wider community facility.
The move means the Council no longer owns the building, but will continue to manage the library service with its...
Baroque Theatre Company bring House of Ghosts to Exeter
Colin Dexter’s eponymous sleuth made famous by the late, great John Thaw returns to the stage in this original play written by Alma Cullen, author of several episodes of the original TV series.
Inspired by both the TV series and the Colin Dexter novels, this intriguing incarnation of the unassuming, stoically-reserved, often grumpy Inspector takes its cue firmly from theatrical history.
Opening with a performance from Hamlet, a young professional actress playing Ophelia dies suddenly mid-performance. Inspector...
The Dartmoor cuckoo project, which began with the tagging of seven Dartmoor birds in 2013 and 2014, is waiting and hoping that the two birds – called Whortle and Emsworthy, who survived the arduous migration to Africa will make it back to our shores this spring.
Dartmoor National Park (DNP), in partnership with Devon Birds, is taking part in the ground-breaking national satellite tagging project run by the British Trust for Ornithology (BTO) to learn about the migration of Dartmoor’s cuckoos and start to understand the reasons for their alarming decline.
Washington Green, fine art publisher to Castle Galleries and Castle Fine Art, has launched IN:SIGHT 2015; their campaign to encourage unsigned, emerging visual artists to apply to join the ranks of its big names, with the chance to exhibit at their flagship Birmingham gallery in the summer.
The prestigious art group, with a gallery in Cathedral Yard in Exeter boasts the likes of Ronnie Wood, Bob Dylan, Salvador Dali, Pablo Picasso and famous art forger John Myatt in their portfolio.
They now want to find the newest artistic talent from the UK with IN:SIGHT 2015 and...
Leading local advice charity Exeter Citizens Advice Bureau is delighted to announce the appointment of Donna Hart and Richard Foxwell to their Board of Trustees.
Donna Hart is a family lawyer and Senior Associate with the Family Law Company based in Exeter. Donna is also chair of the Devon branch of the Chartered Institute of Legal Executives.
Commenting on her appointment, Donna said: “I hope to be able to support the CAB and the worthwhile work they do within the community and I very much look forward to providing help and support to the local people of Exeter.”
Regen SW has today written to MPs and Parliamentary candidates in the south west urging them to support the development of a world-leading renewable energy industry in the next Parliament by signing the South West Renewable Energy 2015 General Election Manifesto.
Candidates have been asked to pledge their support for the manifesto's eight specific commitments, which could help deliver to the south west more than £10 billion of investment, 34,000 jobs and energy security to thousands of local communities.
Martin Lewis as the ‘Money Saving Expert’ has talked a lot about persuading family and friends to ‘switch your gran’. This was regarding energy prices so the older generation can benefit from cheaper costs which can usually only be obtained by searching online. Well we have a Granny who regularly brings her grandson to his music lessons. Under her own steam and fascination with our online teaching, she managed to install Skype. After a few Skype test calls to us she managed get it up and running! Well done Pat! We’re now calling you a ‘Groovy Gran!’ She could show the youngsters a thing or...
Carillon Flute and Guitar Duo perform a broad range of instrumental music that includes most styles and if it isn’t already in our huge repertoire, we will be happy to obtain the music and play it for you. We are used to fitting into small areas in ceremony rooms and have been playing music for civil weddings since 1992.
At civil wedding ceremonies we normally play:
As guests arrive. Usually about 20 minutes before the ceremony begins.
Playing for the Entrance of the Bride. One piece that is suitable for a stately walk – the most often requested being Pachelbel’s...
IS IT STALKING? That is the vital question being addressed in a new awareness film being released by the UK’s leading personal safety charity to launch National Stalking Awareness Week (20 -24 April 2015)
With 1 in 6 women and 1 in 12 men being stalked at some point in their lives* the film, commissioned by charity Suzy Lamplugh Trust, helps to educate the public about what stalking is and to make clear it’s not romantic, trivial or funny, its worrying, serious and illegal.
The two-minute animated film, ‘This is Stalking’ looks at what stalking is and the different ways it...
