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The Lord Mayor of Exeter, Councillor Percy Prowse, has officially opened a new medical dispensing centre and clinic in the city.
Family-owned Salts Healthcare from Birmingham, has now opened their 20th UK Salts Medilink Centre at 119 Sidwell Street, Exeter. replacing the Lyndsey and Son shop.
The Mayor and Mayoress were also shown around the Centre and saw the company’s investment in offices and patient consultation rooms for those who need to discuss their needs one-to-one, plus extensive storage facilities to serve patients who may need urgent replacement products....
The garden at Little Ash Bungalow at Fenny Bridges near Honiton, opens to the public on Sunday 17 August.
Gardener Helen Brown has developed a haven for wildlife which is just bursting with late summer colour and buzzing with insects. The garden has been developed over the past 14 years and has mixed tree, shrub and herbaceous borders filled with unusual plants; a pond and natural stream, with shady woodland area. The garden is designed to blend into the countryside beyond and enjoys lovely views towards East Hill and the River Otter.
A meeting at County Hall, Exeter, has drawn around 100 members of the public from communities across Devon, with a common interest in helping to support local public services.
The meeting follows widespread consultations by Devon County Council on the futures of a number of its services, including youth services and libraries, and which invited communities to respond with ideas as to how some services could be sustained.
The Council has so far received about 160 such ‘expressions of interest’ from individuals and groups, and Councillor Barry Parsons, the Council’s Cabinet...
Revellers danced the night away and waved their union jack flags at the Proms in Bicton Park, raising £13,600 for local charity, Hospiscare.
More than 800 people attended the event on a summer’s evening in the idyllic setting of the Grade 1 listed Italian gardens, surrounded by immaculately manicured lawns with beautiful flower beds and trees.
India’s “Pavarotti” Anando Mukerjee and soprano Laure Meloy performed with the Lympstone based South West Telecom Band and pianists Nicky and Mark Perry.
Bicton owner Valerie Lister, who kindly offered the venue free of charge...
The Newtown Community Association cafe on Sunday 3 August 2014 will be remembering the 118 men from Newtown who died in the First World War.
Visitors to the event, at the hut in Belmont Park from 2pm-5pm, will be able to come together, to step back 100 years and learn about the Newtown of old, to hear about the impact of the war on this small community and to celebrate the importance and value of being part of the community today.
The community has been involved in a community bunting project, making 118 individual flags to signify those that died.
Neil Parish MP has welcomed new figures showing that 310 fewer people are relying on Jobseeker’s Allowance in Tiverton and Honiton compared to this time last year, with the number of people in work in the South West up by 139,000 since 2010.
Since 2010 the number of people on unemployment benefits is down by 371– a 38% drop.
Jobs are being created in Tiverton and Honiton in places like the Tiverton-based linear motion manufacturer HepcoMotion who have launched an extensive apprenticeships programme.
On the 27th June Neil Parish MP organised a Jobs and Apprenticeship...
The Newtown Community Association cafe on Sunday August 3rd 2014 will be remembering the 118 men from Newtown who died in the First World War.
Visitors to the event, at the hut in Belmont Park from 2pm-5pm, will be able to come together, to step back 100 years and learn about the Newtown of old, to hear about the impact of the war on this small community and to celebrate the importance and value of being part of the community today.
The community has been involved in a community bunting project, making 118 individual flags to signify those that died.
Firefighters in England and Wales will today come to the end of eight consecutive days of strike action over pensions, however other forms of industrial action will continue from this evening with no planned end date.
From 7pm tonight until further notice firefighters will not work voluntary overtime, non-contractual overtime or any additional voluntary hours.
Matt Wrack, FBU general secretary, said: “Firefighters have solidly observed the strike action over the past eight days; this has not been easy for them or their families, but all firefighters are aware what is at...
