The number of Job Seekers Allowance (JSA) claimants in Devon has increased slightly for the second month in a row.
During December 2013, the number of people claiming JSA increased by 88 claimants (1.3%) and now stands at 6,667.
Although this contrasts with the national trend, which has seen a decrease, the JSA claimant rate in Devon stands at 1.5% of the working age population, which is around half the national rate of 2.9%.
Likewise, over the last 12 months, the number of people claiming JSA has actually fallen by 2,606 claimants (a reduction of 28.1%), which is a...
South Western Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust (SWASFT) has been shortlisted in the most improved category of the Flu Fighter Awards 2013/14.
Flu Fighter is an annual campaign set up by the Department of Health and NHS Employers, supported by the Social Partnership Forum. The aim of the campaign is to deliver the seasonal flu vaccine to NHS staff.
In the lead up to winter, the time when you are most likely to contract the flu virus, flu fighter clinics were held for all staff across the ambulance service. The flu fighter clinics were widely advertised and staff were...
A groundbreaking new app will unlock the secrets of a unique 10th century manuscript for schoolchildren.
Medieval manuscripts are normally accessible only to scholars as they are so fragile, but an app designed for an iPad will bring them to life for a whole new generation.
The 10th century Exeter Book of Anglo Saxon poetry and riddles, in the care of the Library and Archives of Exeter Cathedral, has been chosen as a prototype for the app, which has been developed by Dr Emma Cayley from Exeter University and Antenna International.
Find your soul mate this Valentine’s Day at Exeter Axhayes!!!
We have lots of adorable cats and kittens looking for love! Come along to meet them at our Valentine’s Coffee morning.
It will be held from 11am on Saturday 15 February at the Centre. Please come along and enjoy a cup of coffee and a Valentine's themed cakes.
We'd love volunteers to come and help. Bakers to bake their yummy cakes, and everyone else to come and support us! Please call 01395 232377 for more details or to put your name on our list of helpers. Or join us on facebook https://www.facebook.com/...
490 businesses in the South West could receive free tailor-made advice to how to export their business overseas.
The new advice is open to all 8,900 UK businesses with a turnover of between £25 million and £250 million which the Government consider to be to be medium sized.
A pilot scheme had been launched in Yorkshire and the South East but is expected to see a full national roll-out afterwards.
The advice will be given by the UK Trade and Investment a government department that works with UK-based businesses to ensure their success in international markets. John...
Dave Ewers wants to help Exeter Chiefs become a real force within the English game after he today agreed a new two-year contract with the Aviva Premiership club.
A product of the club's highly successful academy set-up, the imposing 23-year-old forward has taken his game to new heights this season, not only establishing himself as a first-team regular with the Devon club, but also impressing enough to be named in Stuart Lancaster's England Saxons squad.
Ewers' decision to stay at Sandy Park offers yet another boost to Chiefs head coach Rob Baxter, who in recent weeks has...
Police in Newton Abbot are appealing for witnesses after a man was allegedly assaulted in the town on Tuesday 21 January. The assault happened on Powderham Road early in the afternoon, between around 1pm and 3pm. A man approached the 27-year-old victim and assaulted him with a brick. The victim suffered leg injuries as a result of the incident. The suspect is described as white, short and of stocky build. He was wearing an Adidas baseball cap, dark blue tracksuit bottoms, a light grey hoody and a short black jacket. Anyone who witnessed the incident is asked to call police on 101 quoting...
The next Bishop of Exeter is the Rt Revd Robert Atwell, currently Bishop of Stockport in the Diocese of Chester. His appointment was announced this morning by the Prime Minister’s office.
Bishop Robert will become the 71st bishop of the Diocese of Exeter which comprises more than 500 parishes across the county of Devon.
Aged 59, he spent ten years as a Benedictine monk at Burford Priory in Oxfordshire, and then served as a parish priest in London before becoming Bishop of Stockport in 2008.
He said: “I’m immensely honoured and a little bit daunted to be chosen as...
An Exeter man with Parkinson’s disease and whose sight is severely impaired has defied the odds by releasing a book of poetry.
David Burchfield’s book has already proved a hit with medical professionals, local writers and friends and is now available to the public via his new website.
The book, called Reflexions on Life, includes material from the 1960s through to after David was diagnosed with Parkinson’s in 1995.
David is treated at Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital by consultant neurologist Dr Tim Harrower and has received physiotherapy from the city’s community...
University of Exeter historian, Professor Richard Overy has been shortlisted for a new American military history prize for his book ‘The Bombing War: Europe, 1939-1945’.
The inaugural Guggenheim-Lehrman Prize in Military History has selected six books for the $50,000 (approximately £30,000) prize supported by The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation and Lewis E Lehrman. Harry Guggenheim established the foundation to support research on violence, aggression, and dominance because he was convinced that solid, thoughtful, scholarly and scientific research, experimentation, and analysis...
