Why not come along and help us mark our 21st anniversary at our Open Day at our showroom on Saturday 10th May 2014. We will also be hosting the final of our Bake-a-Cake Competition during the day.
The finalists have been selected and the judges are ready to eat cake!
Our esteemed judges are Masterchef Peter Gorton of Gorton’s in Tavistock and Harriet Pecover, Pastry Chef at the Jack in the Green, Rockbeare and twice finalist in the South West Chef of the Year competition. They will be given the enviable task of sampling each of the cakes brought to our showroom by our...
Paramount Personnel the independent specialist hospitality recruiter has named Geoff Wilson former Restaurant Associates Director (the executive dining division of Compass Group PLC) as its new business development partner in London and the South East.
Commenting on the new appointment Paramount’s managing director Dean Croft said: "Geoff has worked in the hospitality industry for many more years than me and I am sure he will bring knowledge, passion and experience to this new role in London and the surrounding areas."
Geoff Wilson added: “I am excited about this new...
Detectives investigating the armed robbery at a Paignton jewellers have released CCTV of men they would like to speak to in connection with the incident. One man, 21-year-old Zico Rawlinson of Barton, Torquay, was last week charged with robbery and possession of an offensive and appeared before magistrates. Now investigating officers are releasing CCTV film taken at the store in a bid to identify two other suspects. In the CCTV the men are seen to enter the store wearing hoody-style tops over white painter-and-decorator style disposable overalls.
An Exeter School former pupil has won the prestigious Target Jobs Construction Engineering and Design Undergraduate of the Year Award 2014.
2010 leaver Brittany Harris, who is studying Civil Engineering at the University of Bristol, was presented with the award by Sir Trevor McDonald OBE at a ceremony in Canary Wharf, London last week.
She wins an international summer work placement and will spend three months with Laing O'Rourke in Hong Kong, before returning to university for her final year.
Brittany is vice president of EWB (Engineers Without Borders) Bristol and...
Rob Baxter believes he will see a response from his Exeter Chiefs players when they return to Aviva Premiership action this Sunday against visiting Harlequins (2pm).
A fortnight has passed since the Devon club suffered a record 55-12 top flight defeat to Sale Sharks at Sandy Park - and the Exeter head coach wants to see some pride restored within the ranks with a passionate display in the club's penultimate league game of the season.
He said: “It’s about focusing back on ourselves, not getting distracted and realising that the week’s preparation and everything we do is...
Sixteen-year-old singer-songwriter Holly Morwenna from Kenton has been given the big thumbs up yet again by judges of TeenStar.
Along with other impressive acts, Holly will be performing at the area finals of the UK’s only teen singing competition at Ferneham Hall, Fareham, Hampshire on Saturday 10 May.
Holly Morwenna is a familiar face on the Exeter music scene having recently performed at the prestigious Exeter Food Festival, Powderham Garden Festival, Gemfest and several other charity gigs and festivals in the South West. She supported Adam Isaac for the Together in...
Reg and Margaret Nott celebrated their 65th wedding anniversary on 30 April.
Eighty-nine year old Reg and Margaret, 84, were married at St Mary’s Church in Morchard Bishop and farmed at East Worlington until 1990 when they moved to Crediton.
Reg is a keen gardener and grows flowers and vegetables.
Both love quiz programmes, their favourite being Countdown. Their Countdown-themed anniversary cake even had the word “anniversary” on it with the letters jumbled up, just like the TV quiz.
Reg and Margaret said when they met it was love at first sight, although it...
A guided walk around Exeter Higher Cemetery for anyone interested in its bird life. Meet near the chapel and bring binoculars if you have a pair. The charge for Friends of Higher Cemetery members is £1-50, visitors £3 and accompanied children, under 16yrs, £1. For enquiries please contact the Friends of Higher Cemetery on fohcexeter@gmail.com
The Dartmoor cuckoos which were tagged and tracked last year on the long journey to their African wintering grounds are now heading home.
The Dartmoor cuckoo project which began with the tagging of four Dartmoor birds last year is still waiting for the two birds who survived the arduous migration to Africa to make it back to our shores.
In 2013 Dartmoor National Park Authority (DNPA), in partnership with Devon Birds, took part in a ground-breaking national satellite tagging project run by the British Trust for Ornithology (BTO) to learn about the migration of Dartmoor's...
Devon’s ‘newest school’ - covering Exeter and the whole of south Devon – has appointed its first Principal in advance of opening in September 2015.
The University of Exeter-backed South Devon University Technical College (UTC) will offer a new way of learning for up to 600 young people aged 14 to 18, recruiting from Exeter as well as Teignbridge, Torbay, , Plymouth and the South Hams.
Ian Crews, age 51, currently Vice-Principal of Bodmin College Academy in Cornwall, will take up the post on 1st September 2014 following two successful careers in education and engineering....
