Devon County Council is calling on Exeter to use a car club to cut down on congestion and travel costs. Through LSTF (local sustainable transport funding) the county council is supporting Exeter-based company Co-Cars to buy more vehicles and raise the number of users. By joining the car club residents can book a car when needed without the cost of keeping one on the road full time. Cars are parked in a designated bay and can be unlocked through a smart card. The vehicles are clean and have full insurance, tax and MOT. Members can use the vehicle for as long as they have booked it for and...
Mike Krage of Exeter-based graphic design studio Krage Design has worked with Val Wilson, Arts & Events Manager, and Catherine Devenish at Exeter City Council to design the distinctive UnExpected Exeter branding. The branding and headline 'Expect the UnExpected' were developed to produce a strong, bold, modern image that would reflect the exciting new festival produced by Exeter City Council, taking performance & art into unexpected locations across the city from 15-22 Sept this year.
As well as the A3 programme which doubles as a poster, Krage Design produced...
Irishman Ian Whitten insists Exeter Chiefs can ill afford another slow start when they play host to London Wasps in their first Aviva Premiership home game of the season on Saturday (3pm). With hopes high in the Devon camp ahead of their opening day trip to Northampton, the Chiefs were swept aside by the Saints during a powerful first half display that saw Jim Mallinder's men race into a 31-6 half time lead. Although the visitors improved significantly during the second half, eventually losing the game 38-11, the damage had already been done and Whitten is adamant there can be no repeat...
A newly opened restaurant in Exeter is proving to be such a draw for customers that the owners are pushing ahead with expansion plans ahead of schedule. As a result, Casa Maroc – which serves traditional Moroccan and Italian cuisine in its city centre restaurant – will launch Casablanca Lounge Bar, a new cocktail bar and live entertainment venue, in the basement of the extensively renovated Old Malthouse on Bartholomew Street East, on 12 September.
Offering classic cocktails, fine wines and speciality beers in a sumptuously styled and unique interior that takes inspiration from all...
Stagecoach, one of the UK’s biggest bus operators, has confirmed it is making permanent its ground-breaking discounted bus travel scheme for jobseekers.
The company launched the country’s first long-term nationwide initiative as a six-month pilot in February 2013, giving thousands of jobseekers across the UK a 50% discount on their bus travel to help them find employment.
New figures show jobseekers are making nearly 20,000 discounted bus journeys a month under the scheme, which is funded entirely on a commercial basis by Stagecoach without any public sector support....
The South West continues to see one of the UK's highest rates of employment, despite a slight fall in employment of 0.7% to 73.9% in the period from May to July. The rate of unemployment for the region remained unchanged at 6.2%.
The Office for National Statistics has released both national and regional figures for the last financial quarter.
The overall UK unemployment rate dropped by 0.1% from the previous quarter, from 7.8% to 7.7%, though a number of variations can be seen around the country, with some areas experiencing rising unemployment.
The Academy of Social Sciences has conferred the award of Academician on 51 leading social scientists, including Professor Anne Barlow from the University of Exeter’s Law School and Stephen Hinchliffe, Professor of Human Geography within Exeter’s College of Life and Environmental Sciences. The national Academy represents distinguished academics, societies and practitioners in the social sciences. It has over 900 individual Academicians, who are eminent scholars and practitioners from academia and the public and private sectors. Recipients have a wide range of expertise in the social...
Coleen Rooney has been named Ambassador of the Tesco Mum of the Year Awards 2014 and will help find incredible mums to be honoured at the awards ceremony next year.
Following in the footsteps of Denise Van Outen and Sara Cox, Coleen is encouraging the public to name the most deserving mums in the UK, who will be celebrated at a glittering star-studded luncheon at a luxury hotel in London the weekend before Mothers’ Day, next year. “Coleen was chosen to be our Ambassador because charity work lies very close to her heart. She manages to juggle a busy home life with two young boys...
Apple have unveiled the latest creations from the incredible minds of those that inhabit their den of tech geniuses across the pond in California.
The new iPhone 5S features an A7 chip, replacing the A6 version used in the iPhone 5, making it the world's fastest smartphone. With the recent release of the popular Samsung Galaxy S4 family, this development, along with an improved 8 megapixel camera with iSight technology and Touch ID, this couldn't have happened at a better time and will surely put Apple back in the driving seat for mobile phone technology. The 5S also...
