ACRE (Action with Communities in Rural England) has joined the growing number of organisations committed to ending the stigma and discrimination against people with experience of mental health problems.
The leading rural network signed a pledge on Tuesday 3 December with Time to Change, a programme run by the charities Mind and Rethink Mental Illness.
The signing ceremony took place in Cirencester where Chief Executive Janice Banks pledged ACRE’s support to Time to Change and to promoting a better understanding of mental health problems through its national Network of 38...
Staff members at private investment management company, Church House Investments, are happily working away in their new 2238sq ft offices in Sherborne thanks to a property relocation successfully managed by Exeter-based commercial property agents, Space.
Church House Investments instructed Space to help them find and acquire new commercial premises in Sherborne and to manage their move from Yeovil. The relocation was driven by a need for larger, more modern space and the desire to be more accessible for their clients.
The move went off without a hitch and the office was...
Staff at the Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Foundation Trust are being encouraged to cycle to work in a ‘go green’ initiative which will also gain more car parking spaces for patients and visitors.
Around 500 members of staff currently bike in and, with a Trust-wide focus on bicycle security, it is hoped that many more will follow suit.
Simon Dallas, security management specialist, said: “We are aware of the problems with car parking at the hospital and are doing all that we can to tackle this. One big way to ease pressure is for more people to cycle to work but many people...
South West Water has been ordered to pay £58,375 in fines and costs for discharging sewage into a tributary of the Tamar estuary. The case was brought by the Environment Agency.
The offences were committed at the company’s Camels Head treatment works that treats sewage from 40,000 people and operates under an Environmental Permit designed to protect human health and the environment.
In 2011, investigations revealed that there were too many sewage spills from the Camels Head site storm overflow and that the water company was in breach of its permit.
Investigators have found no evidence of mechanical fault in the police helicopter which crashed into a busy pub in Glasgow on Friday 29 November.
A preliminary report from the Air Accidents Investigation Branch has found no evidence of engine or gearbox failure and had over 90 litres of fuel in its tank at the time of the crash.
Despite this investigators have also established that the police helicopter’s rotors were not turning at the point of impact.
The helicopter crashed into The Clutha in Glasgow at around 22:20 killing nine people including the three crew...
Devon's Luke Friend once again found himself in the bottom two of last night's X Factor - but is on his way to the final.
Luke, from Teignmouth, faced a tough sing-off against boy band Rough Copy choosing to perform Keane's Somewhere Only We Know, which was recently covered by Lily Allen and made famous by the new John Lewis Chistmas advert.
Commenting on both performances, judge Gary Barlow said: "It was an emotional sing off. I think you both did well. You've done amazingly well to get this far."
But Gary, as expected, put his own act (Rough Copy) through....
Time is running out for employer and training providers to nominate their apprentices into 2014’s Brathay Apprentice Challenge, with nominations closing on Friday13th December.
The Challenge has already seen entries flood in from organisations across England including NITP (National IT Partnership) a training partnership that delivers IT Apprenticeships, Southend Citizens Advice Bureau, Arqiva and last year’s winners Innovia Films from Cumbria who have entered to defend their title.
The Brathay Apprentice Challenge, which is supported by the National Apprenticeship Service...
There was double celebration in Dawlish with the official opening of Dawlish Strand coinciding with the town’s Christmas light switch-on.
The £1.5 million regeneration scheme, which was a joint initiative between Devon County, Teignbridge District and Dawlish Town Councils, has rejuvenated the Strand area since it was completed in the summer and it has been welcomed by traders.
Devon County Council Chairman, Councillor Bernard Hughes OBE, conducted the opening ceremony ahead of the festive lights switch-on.
The re-development has involved the removal of the wall,...
A gorilla from Exmouth has won the people’s vote at Babbacombe Model Village.
The Torquay attraction hosted gorillas created by South West schools and colleges as part of Paignton Zoo’s Great Gorillas Project.
Carnaby, by Exmouth Community College, came first. Second place went to Andy, by Tower House School, and the third spot went jointly to Greg, by Torquay Academy, and Drake, by Brixham Church of England Primary School.
Carnaby, who spent the summer at the Phoenix Arts Centre in Exeter, was designed by 12-year old Jack Woodthorpe. The red double-decker bus idea...
