Have you seen the Queen’s Jubilee Sculpture on the side of Honiton Leisure Centre?
The sculpture was designed by six-year-old Alfie Gibbins from Fenny Bridges near Honiton.
Last year, East Devon District Council's Chairman, Councillor Peter Halse, asked young people to draw their ideas for a sculpture to celebrate young people for the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee.
Hundreds of enthusiastic children and young people who live in East Devon entered the competition in the hope of getting their drawing made into a real-life sculpture and installed in their local park.
On Wednesday 19 June, Vic Williams of The Audacious Company will be running a one-day business development and sales training course for solicitors in Exeter.
Many solicitors feel uncomfortable selling their services yet being able to win new clients is a crucial element of their role, particularly in today's tough economic climate. This course is designed to overcome these issues.
Vic has over 20 years’ experience managing and training sales teams in the legal and financial services environments.
With food production under extreme pressure from climate turmoil, unsustainable returns, high costs, disease challenges, and confusion over European common agricultural policy reform, the chairman of Devon NFU has called on the government to urgently consider implementing a long-term national food security strategy. Bampton sheep farmer, Colin Rowland, says: “Farmers make up less than two per cent of the population and we currently produce 60 per cent of the nation’s food, but we seem to have been a soft touch for both governments and supermarkets who have taken us for granted over the...
Exeter City’s Ability Counts team require someone to drive the team minibus on Sunday 19 May, as they prepare to play their final fixture of the season.
The volunteer will be required to donate a large part of their day to help the team. They will need to collect the minibus from St James Park at 8.15am and drive to Tavistock (via King George V Playing Fields on Topsham Road) and will return at approximately 4pm. Someone that is willing to donate their time to help Exeter City’s Ability Counts team – and perhaps volunteer additionally at the event – would be welcomed.
Don't miss your chance to get properly wet and muddy at this year's Bogtastic! event on Exmoor on Friday 31 May.
The event features fun activities for all the family and the opportunity to visit a bog restored by the Exmoor Mires Project, as well as all-weather activities including stream-dipping, dam-making, crafts, undercover exhibitions, a sawmill tour and guided walks exploring the local nature and heritage.
Entrance is free, although there may be a small charge for some activities.
Please wear outdoor clothing (wellies advised.) Children must be accompanied....
Accountancy firm, Haines Watts, is celebrating success, having won Auditor of the Year in the SME category for a second time at the annual FDs Excellence Awards.
The awards recognise the service providers that support Britain's finance community using the results of an annual survey, in which 1,380 FDs and financial decision-makers recorded their opinion.
The prestigious awards ceremony was held in Grosvenor Square, London and hosted by Real Business in association with the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW) and supported by the Confederation of...
Pakistani politican Imran Khan has sent a message to his supporters and the people of Pakistan from his hospital bed in Lahore, urging the Electoral Commission of Pakistan and Supreme Court to take the rigging complaints seriously because the future of the country as well as democracy directly depended upon free and fair elections.
The message, posted on Facebook, shows Khan in his hospital bed where he is recovering after falling some 15 feet from a forklift during a campaign rally in Lahore, just days before historical elections in Pakistan. (NewsPoint)
Secretary of State for Transport Patrick McLoughlin today visited the South Devon Link Road site to see how work is progressing.
Mr McLoughlin was joined by Anne Marie Morris, MP for Newton Abbot, where they viewed construction activity on the long awaited South Devon Link Road.
The Minister was also accompanied by Gordon Oliver, Mayor of Torbay; Andrew Leadbetter, Cabinet Member for Economy at Devon County Council; Stuart Hughes, Cabinet Member for Highways; Cllr Jeremy Christophers, Leader of Teignbridge District Council; Liz Waugh, interim Chief Executive of the Heart of...
Devon County Council has today welcomed Government backing for a new railway station in Exeter.
Transport Secretary Patrick McLoughlin was in Devon today to announce that the Department for Transport’s New Station Fund would provide half the funding of the near £1.5 million scheme for a new station at Newcourt. The other half will be met by developer contributions.
Devon County Council will now work with Network Rail to finalise the Newcourt station plans which will deliver a new platform and shelter, ticket machine and passenger information system, secure cycle parking,...
