Local chartered accountants, Francis Clark has announced that TV personality and former Secretary of State Michael Portillo will be the keynote speaker at the firm’s second Finance in the South West seminar to be held in February 2014.
The seminar brings together the people representing funding and support streams potentially available to SMEs and includes presentations and participation from major providers of business funding and support, case studies, networking opportunities for owner/managers to ask “one-to-one” questions and coverage of grants, debt and equity.
A ‘giant’ toadstool has appeared at a Devon nature reserve. Autumn is the season for toadstool spotting. So it wasn’t too surprising when Devon Wildlife Trust staff stumbled upon a group of Fly Agaric (Amanita muscaria) fungi at the charity’s Chudleigh Knighton Heath nature reserve, near Bovey Tracey . But the size of one of the toadstools caught Senior Nature Reserve Officer, Andy Bakere’s eye.
"At this time of year its common to see lots of different kinds of fungi on our nature reserves – they are one of the wonderful natural sights of autumn. But this individual fly agaric...
The majority shareholder of Exeter based airline Flybe has sold its entire shareholding.
The 48.1% stake owned by the Walker Family Trust through Rosedale Aviation Holdings Ltd was sold for £25.2m.
The move marks the end of a long standing relationship between the airline and the Walker family.
Late steel magnate and former owner of Blackburn Rovers Jack Walker bought the majority share of Jersey European airways in 1983, which was rebranded as Flybe in 2002.
The news comes after Monday’s announcement that Flybe will be cutting 500 jobs in a restructuring...
Get your Christmas shopping off to a flying start at Knightshayes’ annual Christmas Craft and Food Fair on Saturday 16 and Sunday 17 November, 10am-4pm.
For the first time this year, a number of local food producers are displaying their delicious goodies, alongside a brilliant selection of hand-made crafts at the Victorian Gothic National Trust house near Tiverton. Elaine Vergette from Knightshayes, who is helping to organise the Fair, said:
"We’ve run a successful Christmas Craft Fair here at Knightshayes for a...
East Devon District Council's Community Development workers have taken their two youth groups on a series of horizon broadening day trips.
The first was a visit by 18 young people to a drama workshop in a studio at the University of Exeter. Six students and an experienced theatre facilitator helped the young people develop a piece of theatre that was performed to an audience at the end of the day.
The themes of the work were gang fighting and knife crime. The young people, who are from some of the most impoverished parts of East Devon, are familiar with these and that came...
Get your Christmas shopping off to a flying start at Knightshayes’ annual Christmas Craft and Food Fair on Saturday 16 and Sunday 17 November, 10am-4pm. For the first time this year, a number of local food producers are displaying their delicious goodies, alongside a brilliant selection of hand-made crafts at the Victorian Gothic National Trust house near Tiverton. Elaine Vergette from Knightshayes, who is helping to organise the Fair, said: "We’ve run a successful Christmas Craft Fair here at Knightshayes for a few years now, but this year we’ve decided to focus on local, hand-made,...
New research form the Highways Agency shows that nearly half of UK drivers are unprepared for winter driving conditions.
In a survey of motorists across the UK that 28% of drivers don’t carry any of the suggested emergency kit in poor conditions and 45% don’t check their vehicle before driving in poor conditions.
In the South West it was found that a quarter of motorists don’t even carry de-icer when in the most severe weather conditions.
The Highways Agency is part of a campaign to ‘Make Time for Winter’ by asking drivers to prepare themselves and their vehicles to...
Brewin Dolphin is delighted to announce, that for the third consecutive year, they will be sponsoring a Main Avenue show garden at RHS Chelsea Flower Show.
For 2014 Brewin Dolphin will be working with designer Matthew Childs for whom this will be his first Chelsea appearance.
The Garden
Brewin Dolphin’s long heritage of nurturing talent and growing wealth will be reflected in the calm, tranquil spaces of the 2014 garden surrounded by fresh, lush, planting. The garden will also signify new growth - a springtime concept; and there will be bold, engaging elements...
Water and Energy bills could continue to rise above inflation for at least another 17 years according to government watchdog, the National Audit Office (NAO).
The NAO predicts that bills will be pushed up due to plans to replace the UK’s aging infrastructure at a cost of £310 billion.
Two thirds of the £310bn is expected to come from the private sector which will ultimately be paid for from consumers’ water and energy bills.
The NAO has also said that the government has little idea of the impact the move will have on the average household or if the rise in bill will...
