An innovative West Country law firm has developed a new iPhone App to allow its clients to keep track of their cases wherever they are.

The news comes in the same week as one of Alan Sugar’s potential apprentices revealed that her business idea was to develop a client service App for law firms. Laura Riley, who was fired from the BBC1 show last week, hoped to secure investment from Lord Sugar for her business idea to develop a mobile app to help law firms communicate with their clients.

In what is believed to be a first for a law firm in the South West, Stephens Scown LLP’s...

Some of the most vulnerable people in Devon will be hit by the Government’s plans to stop funding for local welfare next year, Devon County Council has warned.

Since the Crisis Loans and Community Care Grants were abolished under the Welfare Reform Act 2012, local welfare assistance schemes have been run by district councils in the county, using money given to the County Council by the Government.

The local welfare assistance schemes provide help to those facing a crisis or changing circumstances. The schemes aim to stabilise the immediate crisis by providing help such as...

To celebrate Black Friday 2014, Exeter based award-winning Digital Agency, Rokk Media, are giving you the chance to receive a 25% discount on any Digital Marketing training session that is booked today, Friday 28th November 2014.

Rokk Media pride themselves on offering bespoke, interactive and informative training sessions for businesses at their offices in Exeter, Devon that offer the latest Digital Marketing knowledge and insights.

Rokk Media’s Digital Marketing training sessions include:

- Introduction to (Search Engine Optimisation) SEO training - Social Media...

More than six months after the National Review of Asthma Deaths highlighted the complacency about asthma care, research from Asthma UK published today shows that almost 8 out of 10 people in the South West are still not receiving care that meets the most basic clinical standards (79%).1 This is despite the fact that good basic asthma care prevents life-threatening asthma attacks and needless hospital admissions.

The research highlighted a shocking variation in care across the UK. Londoners fared worse than any other region, with only 14% of people in the capital receiving care that...

A new booklet detailing walks in and around the Riviera Line from Exeter to Paignton was launched at Dawlish Station this week.

The free booklet has been produced by the Devon and Cornwall Rail Partnership and brings together a selection of six self-guided walks, all starting from and ending at Riviera Line railway stations. Included are walks from Starcross, Dawlish Warren, Dawlish and Teignmouth stations.

It is part of the promotional campaign being run for the line by the Devon & Cornwall Rail Partnership as part of the EU Interreg “Citizens’ Rail” project.

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Brewin Dolphin one of the UK’s leading Wealth Managers, with an office in Exeter is delighted that the popularity of its investment services for charities continues to grow, seeing their ranking rise to 7th largest charity investment manager in the UK in this years’ edition of the Annual Charity Fund Management Survey.

Brewin Dolphin have charity specialists in every region, the firm manages a large number of charity portfolios, as charities seek specialist advice and portfolio management with their specific objectives, personally delivered by the team managing their funds....

Nearly five years ago, Haiti was struck with a massive 7.0 scale earthquake that killed up to 300,000, and left 1.5 million homeless. Today however, it remains a country riven with problems, despite the promises of the biggest humanitarian mobilization of a generation.

When the disaster struck in 2010, I went to Haiti, and spent seven months working in the relief effort for an NGO, and saw the destruction first-hand. The reasons for its continuing problems despite massive aid relief lie not a lack of resources, or willing hands, but in the way we treat stricken countries in general...

An official opening ceremony has been held to mark the completion of the final stretch of the Exe Estuary Trail.

The final £1.6 million section of the trail, which links Turf Lock and Powderham, has seen the development of a three-metre wide off-road path and newly constructed bridge, near the existing level crossing at Powderham.

It means that the 16 mile route around the Estuary, can now be enjoyed in its entirety for the first time. The predominantly off-road network, designed by Devon County Council, now links Exmouth to Dawlish Warren, via Topsham and Exeter, and forms...

This festive season Devon and Cornwall Police are running The 12 online frauds of Christmas campaign to protect thousands of people in our communities from falling victim to cyber-fraudsters.

Kicking-off on ‘Black Friday’ (November 28), which marks the start of the busiest four days of internet shopping of the year, police will be doing everything they can to raise awareness of a dozen online frauds that have the potential to ruin your festive fun.

Last Christmas Devon and Cornwall shoppers fell victim to the online fraudsters by losing out on a quarter of million pounds...