South West Comms Group receives Excellence Award

South West Communications Group announced today it has received ShoreTel’s Circle of Excellence Award for the 2013 partner year, covering the October 2012 through September 2013 time period.

The award recognises South West Communications Group for exceptional achievement in areas including customer satisfaction, revenue growth and proficiency with advanced applications. ShoreTel, Inc. is the leading provider of brilliantly simple unified communications (UC) solutions.

Sarah Flowers, South West Communications Group’s sales director, said: “We are delighted to have been named...

Madame Poliakov’s spirit of Christmas

Event Date: 
28/11/2013 - 7:00pm to 20/12/2013 - 8:00pm
Venue: 
Well House Tavern, Cathedral Green, Exeter

Strange Goings on in the Well House Tavern Cellar! Nuts and Volts present ‘Madame Poliakov’s spirit of Christmas’

A perfect accompaniment to your Christmas market shopping or after work drinks party, Nuts and Volts present an audience with the infamous Madame Poliakov – the richest woman on earth. A thrilling theatrical event that takes place mainly in the atmospheric environment of the Well House Tavern’s cellar, audiences are invited to enjoy this dark Victorian melodrama on Thursdays and Saturdays in the run up to Christmas.

Shows are performed on a ‘make a donation’...

Win a Scrummy Hamper this Christmas

Authored by Hospiscare
Posted: Tue, 11/26/2013 - 10:38am

Local charity Hospiscare is launching its Christmas Hamper Appeal for the festive season. To get involved you simply have to: • Get a cardboard box - those with an artistic flair can decorate it. • Ask colleagues to bring an item in to fill it • Once full, hold a raffle at the workplace • The winner takes home the Hamper • Send the money from the raffle to Hospiscare - your local charity. All the money raised will be spent caring for people in Exeter, mid and east Devon who are living with a terminal illness. Hospiscare Fundraiser Louise Beeken said: “This is a great way to get into the...

Adam Isaac helps Barnstaple get festive

Exeter singing star Adam Isaac helped the people of Barnstaple begin their festive celebrations by performing at their Christmas lights switch on.

Adam, who was mentored by Sir Tom Jones in the 2012 series of The Voice, performed material from his own album Train Tracks and also covered tracks by artists such as Lenny Kravitz and Eurythmics. Girl band Stooshe and Britain’s Got Talent stars The Luminites also performed.

Adam will next be performing at Timepiece on Saturday 30th November. Please visit Timepiece at Little Castle Street for more information.

Murder suspect appears in court

Authored by Huw Oxburgh
Posted: Tue, 11/26/2013 - 10:25am

Update: The 43 year-old who died after being severely injured at a house on Alphington Road has been named as Stephen Michael Crook.

Ryan Singleton, 25, appeared in court today and will begin preliminary hearings on December 12.

Singleton will also return to court for a bail hearing tomorrow.

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A 25 year-old man charged with murder has been named as Ryan Singleton from Coventry.

Mr Singleton is appearing in Exeter Magistrate’s court this morning to begin initial hearings.

Mr Singleton is being charged...

South West better off on energy bills

Authored by Huw Oxburgh
Posted: Tue, 11/26/2013 - 10:20am

Energy consumers in the South West are better off than elsewhere in the UK according to the energy watchdog, Ofgem.

A report by Ofgem shows that five of the ‘Big Six’ energy companies were not sufficently demonstrating value for money.

The report however praises Western Power Distribution’s (WPD) for putting in place a plan to reduce costs for customers.

WPD only operates in the South West, The Midlands and South Wales meaning that those elsewhere in the country must use another provider.

Ofgem’s Head of Distribution, Hannah Dixon said: “Western Power...

£40,000 investment opens up Coast Path to thousands of wheelchair and pushchair users in time for Christmas

Authored by Newshound
Posted: Tue, 11/26/2013 - 10:10am

The completion of seven coastal access schemes along parts of the South West Coast Path, and the addition of 40 extra walks on its website means that now, for the first time, thousands of people with limited mobility and those with young children in pushchairs are able to enjoy stretches of the breathtaking National Trail that were once impassable.

Newly accessible walks include parts of Padstow where a £24,000 project to improve the surface and widen the path in Stile Field, which both Cornwall Council and Padstow Town Council helped to fund, now means that as well as enjoying the...

Exeter entrepreneurs to feature in technology showcase

Student entrepreneurs are hoping to take London by storm at the Accelerating Growth Showcase, being held in London on 27 November to celebrate the 10th anniversary of university enterprise partnership, SETsquared.

CoLinked, the app development company founded by four University of Exeter students who won the 2013 Microsoft Imagine Cup, will be showcasing their latest product at the event. Photo sharing app FlickPic follows their first release, SoundSYNK, and allows users to send images to multiple mobile devices with the flick of a wrist.

CoLinked was formed at a regional...

What would you do with The Money

Authored by Kaleider
Posted: Tue, 11/26/2013 - 8:54am

The Money Come and Play.

There will be money on the table. Not fake money, real money. It’s up to the group what to spend it on. You have two hours to come to a decision.

How to play:

Become a Benefactor by donating as much as you can. Work with other Benefactors to decide what to spend the group’s money on. You have two hours to come to a decision. No rules. If you don’t decide unanimously in the allotted time you relinquish your privilege to spend the money and the money rolls over to the next group of Benefactors. If you’re the quiet observing type you can...

19 year sentence for child sex offender

Authored by Huw Oxburgh
Posted: Mon, 11/25/2013 - 11:09pm

John Bidmead a 65 year-old former lorry driver has been sentenced to a 19 year prison sentence for child sex offences in Exeter Crown court today.

Bidmead from Cullompton was found with over a million images and videos of child pornography on his computer.

Police began investigating Bidmead after Interpol alerted them that Bidmead had been downloading the images.

A raid on his house caught Bidmead in the act of watching child pornography.

Officers at the Child Exploitation Unit forensically catalogued Bidmead’s collection of child pornography but had to stop...

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