A flood defence wall badly damaged by the recent floods in Topsham will be rebuilt by Exeter City Council after the Environment Agency would not commit to repairing it.
A large section of the wall by the River Exe at Bowling Green Marsh was damaged during the high tides and storm damage in January and February. The wall provides protection to the RSPB reserve at Bowling Green Marsh and a number of nearby properties and businesses. The Environment Agency has said that major repairing were not financially viable maintain and went ‘above and beyond’ normal repair procedures. The EA...
Research by Barclays has found that with over 5.1 million people over 65 in the UK who have never been online, if all of them were to hit the net, it would result in a collective saving of £3.78 billion a year. In the South West only 44% of 418,000 over 65s have access to the internet meaning money savings could be made.
To support those wishing to gain access to potential money savings online, on Tuesday 18th March 2014, Barclays Exeter branch in Bedford Street, will be hosting its first a ‘tea and teach’ morning for individuals whatever their age, to become more savvy with...
A leading remote aerial filming company has teamed up with local digital marketing agency MiHi Digital to launch their new website.
Flyonix, whose clients include the BBC, ITV, Avios and Stanley recently gained international attention and more than 150,000 YouTube views when they developed their own flying Tardis and took to the skies over rural Devon.
Ben Bailey, Director at Flyonix explained, “We’ve placed innovation and creativity at the heart of our company. With this we’ve been known to undertake a variety of more unusual projects. Whether it be flying washing machines...
Back by popular demand, the Exeter Chamber’s Meet the Neighbours business lunch was held at Sandy Park Conference Centre on 26 February and was attended by more than 100 members of the business community. This was an increase in numbers on last year’s Meet the Neighbours lunch which saw over 80 people attend.
Delegates were treated to a two course lunch and had the opportunity to network and build new contacts in the business community as well as catch up with old friends.
Both Exeter and Somerset Chamber gave an update to attendees.
South West High streets are set to become ‘dementia friendly’ as several major retailers commit to offering their staff training to help those with the condition. The initiative launched by the Alzhiemer’s society will see staff at 60 Homebase and Argos stores as well as some branches of Marks and Spencer and Lloyds bank train to become ‘Dementia Friends’ who help people with dementia live more independently. Between them, they have committed to create over 121,500 Dementia Friends in shops and banks across the UK. Angie Newing, Regional Director for Alzheimer’s Society in the South West,...
A Devon NHS organisation has won an award for its work in promoting the recruitment of apprentices.
The Northern, Eastern and Western Devon Clinical Commissioning group (NEW Devon CCG) scooped the Education Training Skills (ETS) Large Employer of the Year Award at a ceremony at the Buckerell Lodge in Exeter on 4 March.
It was a double success for the NHS organisation on the night after Howard Stamp, acting safety systems officer with the nursing directorate, also won the ETS Apprentice of the Year for Outstanding Contribution Award.
The South Devon Link Road project team has released timelapse footage of some of the activity undertaken during recent engineering works.
The footage shows the removal of the old accommodation bridge, which was removed during the work over the Christmas holiday period.
Since the project began, timelapse footage has been gathered at locations along the 5.5 km route, and some of these cameras were temporarily relocated to capture the action during the Christmas works.
Community Liaison Group member Barry Hunter processed and edited the film: you can view the whole...
Devon v Cornwall - the Exeter ladies take on Perranporth.
The Exeter Golf and Country Club Ladies Still Cup winning team in 2013 played against Perranporth, the equivalent Gammon Trophy winning team from Cornwall, for the Tamar Trophy at Exeter on Sunday 2 March.
The Tamar trophy, played to find the best South West Peninsula ladies club scratch team was won by Perranporth by 6 games to 1, Exeter’s Gill Whitehead, a 1 handicapper, winning the only game for Exeter against a strong side from Perranporth.
On Monday the ladies played the senior men and won by 5½ and 4½...
Rob Baxter believes Sam Hill underlines the "success story" of the Exeter Chiefs Academy after the young back today agreed a new two-year contract extension with the Aviva Premiership club.
The 20-year-old centre, whose new deal will take him through until the summer of 2017, becomes the latest member of Baxter's squad to pledge their future to the Chiefs in recent weeks.
Hill's rise through the Exeter ranks - particularly this season - has certainly been impressive and Baxter feels the Exeter-born starlet has all the right attributes to make to the summit of the...
Exeter College students and staff are celebrating after being rated as outstanding by education inspectors. The college, which was also rated outstanding by Ofsted less than two years ago, has become the first college in Devon and Cornwall to reach the standard under a new ratings framework. It makes it the only education provider to gain this highest accolade in two different inspections in less than two years. The team of 14 Ofsted inspectors, who visited the college in early January, have published their report this week which awards the highest outstanding grade for overall...
