Social enterprise Pluss has won one of seven coveted golden keys in a Willy Wonka-style national competition, with the chance to see its nominated community project scoop £18,000, thanks to Supra UK.
The Exeter-based organisation supports thousands of people with disabilities and other disadvantages in the South West, West of England and West Yorkshire. They support people both by helping them into work and by supplying equipment to aid independent living.
Pluss aims to use the prize money to send out over 5,000 ‘Everlasting Cold-Stoppers’, which are re-usable hand warmers...
WBW Solicitors’ new Southernhay office has been opened by the Lord Mayor of Exeter, Councillor Rachel Lyons.
The firm has moved from their office in Queen Street to the Georgian building in Exeter’s professional quarter and held an open afternoon to give clients, colleagues and friends the opportunity to look around their new five-storey home.
A brass plaque was unveiled by Cllr Lyons, who said: “Like many thriving businesses in Exeter, it’s great to see WBW growing and moving to new larger premises and I congratulate them on their move and wish them continued success”....
Stagecoach South West has today confirmed that, while South West Water carries out essential water main replacement work, its buses will not be able to run through Newton Poppleford for approximately three weeks from Saturday 5 October.
For the duration of the closure services 52A, 52B and 157 will be subject to lengthy diversions, with journeys between Exeter and Sidmouth and Seaton taking an additional 25 minutes and journeys between Exmouth and Sidmouth taking an additional 16 minutes. Services 52A and 52B will be diverted via the A30 and Honiton and service 157 will alternate...
Russia’s investigative committee has announced they are to prosecute around 29 Greenpeace activists, who were arrested last Thursday (19 September) following an attempt to climb the Prirazlomnaya oil-drilling platform off the Russian coast. Two Greenpeace activists from the international crew of the Arctic Sunrise were detained during this attempt on the 18 September, with the remaining activists arrested the following day. Among the six British Nationals on the Arctic Sunrise are Iain Rogers, 37 and Alex Harris, 27 from Devon. Alex Harris’s mother Linda has said she fears for her daughter...
It has been reported that 1,700 council workers across the South West are employed on ‘Zero Hour’ contracts. Councils in Devon, Dorset and Cornwall employ workers on the contracts that have been criticised by unions and politicians. Last week Business Sectary Vince Cable announced a review of the practice over concerns that it is being used to exploit low-paid workers. The contracts have been used in some cases to ensure workers do not work elsewhere while not guaranteeing an adequate wage. Devon County Council and Teignbridge District Council are among councils in the South West that...
'Where to build the walls that protect us' is an opportunity for us all to imagine and model a future city. Our city of Exeter. It’s going to be an exercise in serious play.
'Where to build the walls that protect' us is an opportunity for us all to imagine a future city. Our city of Exeter… An architect or planner might call this sort of process a ‘charrette’ – a term that’s used to describe an intensive and collaborative enquiry that seeks to solve a complex design issue.
Perhaps that sounds rather dry and dusty, but you should be assured that this is...
Exeter’s food business operators are being given the opportunity to find out how to achieve a top hygiene rating as part of a free course run by Exeter City Council's Environmental Health Services .
The event, on Wednesday 25 September, focuses on the prevention of food poisoning through good hygiene practices such as temperature control and the avoidance of cross-contamination. Environmental Health Officers with a wide range of practical experience will present the session and a representative from Devon and Somerset Trading Standards Service will also be on hand to offer business...
Devon and Cornwall Police are appealing for information after a white van collided with an eight-year-old boy in Moretonhampstead and then failed to stop.
The incident took place at around 4.10pm on Wednesday, 18 September 2013 on a narrow country lane between the village of North Bovey and Moretonhamstead.
The van collided with the boy as it passed him and his two siblings in the lane but left the scene without stopping.
The boy sustained a fractured leg.
It is possible that the van in question had signwriting and a flourescent stripe on the side.
Work is set to start on the South Western Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust (SWASFT) Ambulance Special Operations Centre (ASOC West) – a brand new, operational ambulance facility that will provide a central response, training and administration facility for a range of the Trust’s specialist resources.
Operating 24/7, 365 days a year, the team of ambulance paramedics based at the new site will provide the NHS ambulance response to a range of demanding, technical and potentially hazardous incidents across the Trust’s operational areas of Devon, Cornwall, Somerset, Dorset and the...
