Twenty companies and apprentices will represent the wealth of Apprenticeship talent across the South West after being short-listed for the regional heat of the prestigious National Apprenticeship Awards 2013.

Exeter’s own Donna Yarwood is just one of the apprentices taking part. She has been shortlisted for Higher Apprentice of the Year.

The awards, which are now in their 10th year, celebrate the work of the country’s most talented apprentices and apprenticeship employers. An awards ceremony is to be held at the Holiday Inn in Taunton on the 18th September to announce the...

Shortlisted from 105 entries, an artwork developed for an exhibition at RAMM has won an international linocut prize.

Exeter-based artist Volkhardt Müller adapted 12 little plastic TVs with musical clockwork to play finely carved miniature lino cuts on a perpetual roll for the Witness Box display in the exhibition, Any High Street. More of Volkhardt’s work can be seen in the current display at RAMM by Devon-based artist collective Blind Ditch: This City’s Centre.

Volkhardt is thrilled that the 12 scenes of contemporary Exeter have gained international recognition “I was...

Fire crews from Exmouth have been called to two separate incidents in the last few days involving disposable barbecues being placed in plastic bins when they were still hot.

In the early hours of 22 July, crews were called to Exmouth Cricket Club, Queens Drive, after reports of a fire on the outside of the building. The fire damaged part of the tea rooms and crews were able to stop the fire spreading further into the building.

Investigations found that a disposable barbecue had been placed in a bin while still hot and, over a period of time, had burnt through the bin and...

With the summer holidays upon us, motorists are being reminded of the dangers faced by road workers who carry out vital improvements and maintenance on our roads - in particular on the new A380 South Devon Link Road.

Emergency Services, Local Authority Road Safety Teams and Contractors Galliford Try are urging drivers to take extra care at road works in a bid to cut deaths and injuries of road workers.

Since 2010, eight road workers have been killed whilst improving and maintaining the road network in England – and around 2,200 road accidents where people are injured occur...

ATASS Respect, the not-for-profit enterprise of Exeter-based research and investment company ATASS Group, has today announced its annual corporate social responsibility (CSR) conference will take place on Thursday 17 October at Woodbury Park Golf and Country Club.

Entitled 'Think Partnership 2013', the conference will bring together companies from across the region to discuss how businesses can be more society-friendly, by working with community and charitable enterprises for mutual benefit.

Following on from the success of last year’s conference, the event will...

Topsham-based commercial photographer and published poet, Meia Allegranza, is launching a Poetography Exhibition on 1 August 2013 in Topsham’s The Café.

The exhibition, called “Poetography for the All Generations”, will showcase Meia’s two passions, photography and poetry, as she brings together 14 of her favourite Photos and poems.

The exhibition, which will be free to attend, will run from 1-31 August during The Café’s opening hours 10am–4.30pm.

This is Meia’s first solo exhibition, and has been inspired by her life, news events, the sights and sounds of Devon,...

Exeter’s Fun Kitchen cooking school has announced the search for the next young celebrity TV chefs, for a new Saturday Kitchen spinoff TV series to show off their culinary skills and passion for food.

Fun Kitchen is teaming up with Cactus TV, makers of BBC One's hugely popular live cooking show Saturday Kitchen , The Roux Dynasty and The Hairy Bikers’ Food Tour , to find the best junior cooks from the South West to impress TV viewers with their cooking talents.

The brand new Saturday morning children’s cookery show, to be aired on ITV1 in September, will see budding young...

Teignbridge’s army of waste teams are getting out and about to help ensure beaches, parks and beauty spots are free from summer rubbish – but they are urging residents and visitors to help them out.

The council is providing its busy resorts with extra litter and wheelie bins and is also arranging for extra street cleans to get underway but hopes locals, holidaymakers and businesses to help ‘keep it clean’ by disposing of rubbish safely or taking it home with them.

Waste and cleansing teams are working hard to make sure all the additional litter from people using public...

We are really pleased to announce Shillingford Organics has been shortlisted for the next stage of judging in the Soil Association 'Box Scheme' Awards 2013.

We really hope to give you some good news when the final results have been announced.

The Bike Shed Theatre in Exeter begins a week of short plays about modern attitudes to suffrage and democracy tonight (23/07/13).

Three short plays have been commissioned as part of the Bike Shed’s annual ‘New Blood’ performances, in which up and coming writers and directors produce work around a central theme.

The theme for this year of Democracy and Suffrage are then considered afterwards with a planned panel for discussion and debate. Each night will cover a separate topic with a series of guest panellists including a BBC sports journalist for a discussion on...