Exeter City Council has set out a new action plan on how it maintains and manages housing in response to a £1 million overspend from the council’s housing revenue account (HRA).
The action plan could see some tenants prevented from transferring into a new council house or even face eviction or fines if their property is in a poor state of repair.
The council will also look to better understand the reasons behind the overspend ahead of a major restructure of the service due to begin later this year.
Cllr Rob Hannaford, Lead councillor for Housing and Customer Access...
All Mid Devon households will soon be receiving a new collection calendar as the Council reorganises its recycling and rubbish collections rounds to become more efficient and reduce costs.
Up until now many people have had to remember two different days of the week for your brown bins/black sacks and your black recycling box. The good news is that from Monday 31 March there will be one regular day of the week for each collection. This could mean that your collection day(s) will change.
Waste & Transport Manager Simon Newcombe said: “We’ve done lots of preparation to...
Some 750 children from schools around Exeter have been working with education officers to create stunning banners on the theme of Reading the Cathedral.
Exeter Cathedral marks its 900th anniversary this year and the banners are on display in the nave.
The exhibition has been sponsored by the Exeter Episcopal Trust.
Education officer for the Diocese of Exeter, Tatiana Wilson, said it was wonderful how the Cathedral will still so important to young people’s lives in Exeter.
“It has been lovely to celebrate deep thinking and learning with children and their...
Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, Rt Hon Owen Paterson, MP, and local MP for East Devon, Rt Hon Hugo Swire, MP, opened the new Animal Husbandry School at Bicton College this week to offer their support for a new era of animal care education which includes the Rare Breeds Survival Trust.
A £2,880,000 grant from the Skills Funding Agency has paved the way for the build. The Rare Breeds Survival Trust is the leading national charity working to conserve and protect the United Kingdom's rare native breeds of farm animals from extinction.
Great minds often tend to change the whole world with just one invention. We would still be sitting by a candle and writing a letter to get in touch with a friend, as opposed to sitting in front of the computer and logging into Facebook to contact a friend if it wasn’t for certain inventions that were so incredible that they had enough impact to change the whole world forever. Today, we point out the 10 inventions that have had the most impact on human society.
1 - The Wheel
The wheel is often regarded as the invention that paved the way for all other...
Entries are now open for the UK’s craziest, most colourful sponsored 5k event for all the family – the Children’s Hospice South West (CHSW) Rainbow Run at Exeter Racecourse on Sunday 8 June.
You can run it. You can walk it. You can even skip it.
However you choose to do it – the organisers guarantee you will cross the finishing line a vision of colour and wearing the biggest smile.
Just make sure you wear a white t-shirt, and clothes you don't mind getting messy because as you pass through the five paint stations, you will showered with different coloured powder...
Thousands of children across the UK will be able to learn 11 basic phrases in British Sign Language thanks to a video created by a national charity.
On March 18th 2014, thousands of deaf people across the UK will celebrate the 11th anniversary of British Sign Language (BSL) being recognised as an official language in its own right.
National charity and the UK’s leading awarding body in deaf communication qualifications, Signature, is marking this day by calling for school teachers to take fifteen minutes out of their day to teach students 11 basic BSL signs. The charity has...
March is proving to be a busy month for the Young Farmers Club with members taking part in a whole host of competitions and activities.
Young Farmers Club is an organisation that dates back to the 1920's and was started to give young people in the countryside a way of socialising with other young people in their areas. Today there are over 700 clubs in England and Wales, 39 of which are in Devon alone!
The beginning of the month saw the Devon Federation of Young Farmers Club (YFC) hold their entertainments, choir and member of the year competition on Saturday 1st March 2014...
Everys Solicitors were among the crowd that welcomed home the runners in this year’s Grizzly.
As one of the principal sponsors, partners and staff helped greet the survivors of this annual race which covers around 20 miles of muddy, hilly and boggy terrain including the beaches and East Devon countryside surrounding Seaton.
Everys Solicitors sponsored The Grizzly’s runner numbers and banners, and Everys partner John Hawkins helped give out the prizes.
He said: “It was a thoroughly enjoyable sunny day and lived up to its reputation as one the most anticipated events...
In this video Carly Renaud from Deafinitie interpreters explains the different avenues of support you can receive if you are considering hiring a deaf member of staff.
Carly also explains the access to scheme “Access to Work supports employers in meeting their obligation under the Equalities Act 2010 to make and anticipate reasonable adjustments for disabled employees and to ensure that they are in no way disadvantaged. The scheme will provide funding for communication support for a Deaf applicant in the form of a registered qualified interpreter during an interview process,...
