Residents of Angela Court Nursing Home in near Sidmouth were treated to some pancakes with every topping under the sun to choose from to celebrate pancake day.

Angela Court staff provided pancakes for all the residents and then helped them decide what toppings they would like. Fresh fruit, chocolate, syrup, cream and the old favourite of lemon and sugar were all available for residents to help themselves to!

Angela Court is recognised as an Investor in people and cares for some of the most vulnerable elderly in the community; the care team boasts an excellent reputation for...

Dean Clarke Lofts are at the vanguard of bringing residential living back to the heart of Southernhay

With its imposing Georgian townhouses and fine gardens, Southernhay once provided the most prestigious residential addresses in Exeter. Impressively proportioned, with high ceilings and tall windows, the houses – many created by local master builders Matthew Nosworthy and William Hooper – were perfect for local gentry and affluent middle classes and their staff. Following the huge societal shifts driven by both world wars, however, the dynamic of the area changed and Southernhay...

Businesses across Devon and Cornwall are being urged to enter one of the South West region’s top award schemes recognising excellence and enterprise.

The South West’s Institute of Directors Awards 2014 seek to recognise outstanding business people and focus UK-wide attention on the region's success.

Award nominations are open to anyone working at director level in any type of business or organisation– they don’t have to be an IoD member.

Categories include: SME Director, Large Company Director, Family Business Director , Young Director, Public Sector Director,...

British SMEs own £770 billion in assets – equivalent to 48 per cent of the UK’s GDP – and are owed £291 billion in outstanding invoices that they could use to fund future growth, according to new research published today by Lloyds Bank Commercial Banking.

Although businesses are becoming more confident about investing in future growth, and although many are aware of invoice financing as a possible form of lending, very few businesses have used it to drive growth in the past 12 months.

Invoice finance can help businesses release cash quickly, giving them access to up to 90...

South Western Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust (SWASFT) has launched the NHS111 service across the whole of Devon (Monday 10 March).

The service was initially launched in part of the county in September last year, but now the remaining areas will also switch to 111.

NHS 111 has already replaced the previous NHS Direct and from today it replaces GP out-of-hours telephone numbers in throughout the remainder of the county (Mid Devon and North Devon has already switched).

GP practices have changed their answer phone messages and websites to direct patients to call...

A major refurbishment project at the University of Exeter medical school will begin later this month after being granted funding and planning permission.

The work expected to cost over £10.5 million will improve on facilities at the University’s St Luke’s Campus by providing more space for teaching and student study.

The work will also see an extra storey added to the current South Cloisters building as well as a new four storey extension constructed. Hugh McCann, Director of Estate Development at the University of Exeter, said: “This is an extremely exciting project, which...

A 15ft great white shark named Lydia is on course to arrive at the South West coast later this week coast according to scientists tracking her via satellite tag.

Lydia, already the first recorded example of her species to cross the Atlantic, is now less than 1000 miles from UK shores and if she keeps to her current course and speed may arrive at the Cornish coast within a few days.

Lydia was first tagged off the coast of Jacksonville, Florida, last March by the researchers for the Ocearch scientific project and since then US scientists have been tracking Lydia for 19,000...