This week local bus operator Stagecoach South West are celebrating National Apprenticeship Week 2023 by highlighting people across their business who have excelled through the company’s apprenticeship schemes.
Each year National Apprenticeship Week details the benefits that apprentices can bring to local communities, businesses, and the wider economy. With this year’s theme being ‘Skills for life’ it’s a great opportunity for people to consider the public transport sector as a career choice. Stagecoach has been at the forefront of championing apprentices in the workforce for many...
Europe Snacks, a leading European producer of savoury snacks for third party brands, announces the acquisition of 100% of Burts Snacks. This operation enables Europe Snacks to accelerate its growth in Europe’s largest snacking market.
Supported by Apax Partners, Europe Snacks entered the UK market with the acquisition of Kolak Snack Foods in 2016. The acquisition of Burts, which should be finalized in March 2023, represents a further step in expanding the group’s presence in the UK, with the product portfolio being highly complementary.
Famous engineer, Isambard Kingdom Brunel helped shape the South West, creating some of the region’s most iconic and enduring infrastructure. But what does the South West need in future to meet the unprecedented challenges posed by the nature and climate emergencies?
A new podcast series, Beyond Brunel , explores the role of infrastructure in the South West’s transition to net zero carbon by 2050 while also improving people’s lives, helping the region to become more productive and protecting nature and the environment.
Hundreds of thousands of trees will be planted in communities across England after two major funding schemes reopened for applications today.
Over £14m will be allocated to successful applicants across both funds, which will support tree planting efforts and contribute to Government commitments to treble tree-planting rates across England by the end of this Parliament, planting 30,000 hectares of trees across the UK per year to meet net zero ambitions.
Round 3 of the Local Authority Treescapes Fund (LATF) will see local authorities drive an increase in non-woodland tree...
Local policing teams in Devon are out and about meeting the public again this month.
There are plenty of opportunities to catch up with your local cops and raise any issues you may want to speak to them about. Regular drop-in advice sessions are held across the county each week and officers are keen to chat to local residents and get to know them better.
On Wed 8 February police from Exeter city local team will be at St Sidwell’s Centre in Sidwell Street, EX4 6NN from midday. They return on 15 and 22 Feb at the same location, same time.
South Devon’s Buckfast Abbey has announced that a brand-new, on-site pizzeria restaurant, San Benedetto’s, will soon open to the public on National Pizza Day, Thursday 9thFebruary.
With a tasty selection of quick and easy Italian meals on offer, both to eat-in and take-away, the new restaurant will provide Buckfast Abbey’s 250,000+ annual visitors, and the local Buckfastleigh community, with a wider choice of dining options to enjoy – right on the edge of Dartmoor National Park.
Featuring many Italian favourites, such as pizzas, cured meats and wild gelatos on the menu, the...
Unity Musicals bring the pilot performance of their new musical theatre production, "Little Ships" to the Barnfield Theatre, Exeter on the 2nd and 3rd of June 2023, and are seeking local theatre performers to join them for the production.
Set in 1940, Little Ships is about a West Country family at the start of World War II. The father who was brought up in England, is of mixed Irish and French parentage and joins the French army. He is part of the 1st Army that for a short time holds Lille enabling the British army to retreat...
A cafe in Exeter has become a regular meeting point for a rapidly expanding group of aspiring house and techno DJs.
So far Sunset Society cafe has hosted four successful community meet-ups giving new DJs the opportunity to spin their tunes on professional decks in a relaxed and supportive environment.
The house and techno Facebook group founder Tim Lawton is staggered by the response from local music lovers since the community’s launch last September.
At last Saturday’s meet-up, the first this year, Tim said: “There’s clearly a real thirst for music artists for...
The wait to replace a well-known former bridge at Exeter’s quay is likely to go on after it was left off the city council’s proposed new budget.
The wooden Mallison Bridge, originally built in 1984 and named after a professor who left his money to the city, closed in 2018 because of safety concerns after its timbers rotted. It was torn down in 2020.
As a result, a small alleyway next to Commercial Road is currently the only way for pedestrians and cyclists to access the main part of the quay from the popular Cricklepit Suspension Bridge.
