South Devon based experts in tourism, hospitality and marketing have signed up to offer a FREE speed mentoring service in English Tourism Week in 2013.
The Speed Mentoring event forms part of the English Riviera Tourism and Business Conference at Torquay’s Riviera International Conference Centre on 21st March 2013 being organised by the English Riviera Tourism Company.
The mentoring team will be giving bite size chunks of information about hot topics, delivered on a one to one basis, to tourism businesses who just want to pick up new tips or ask a few critical questions....
The Centre for Energy and the Environment (CEE) based at the University of Exeter has been awarded £25,000 by the Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Hospital Trust to research the prioritisation of sustainability measures at the Royal Devon & Exeter NHS Foundation Trust (RD&E).
Commenting on the award Tony Norton, Head of the Centre, said “The RD&E has recognised the Centre’s expertise in energy and the built environment and the track record of success we have in working with other public sector partners in the region. This project has links to other research we are doing in...
When Martyn Lufkin graduated with a degree in statistics, he had no idea that some 13 years later he would return to education - this time to train as an electrician.
The 33-year-old father of two who lives in Exeter is one of a growing number of people who retrain and switch to a completely different career after years, even decades, of doing the same thing....
Martyn had studied statistics because he was good at it, rather than because he had a specific career in mind, graduating in 2001. In fact he was so unsure what career he was suited to that he signed up with a...
The team behind The Exeter Daily are poised to launch their first franchise. After just five months of trading in Exeter, The Daily UK, is to expand into Plymouth next month. Meanwhile, talks are at an advanced stage in a number of other areas across the UK.
The Daily model was created by Marc Astley, who stood down as editor of the Express & Echo in Exeter shortly after it turned from a daily to weekly. And he said his user-generated model had captured the imaginations of a new generation of news consumer.
Mr Astley added: “Everything we are doing now is six to 12...
Devon songstress Joss Stone has told how soldiers ushered fans out of a gig as she was playing in China.
Joss, who's mother owns a club in Exeter, told Jonathan Ross how the bizarre incident happened when she was performing at a festival in Beijing. She said she was the last act on stage but before her set ended the military began to clear the venue.
Joss explained: "It was a bit mad actually... I think they decided it was time everyone should leave and there must have been about 200 of them, maybe more lining all of the audience… and they were slowly pushing all of the...
If you’re waiting for your customers to come to you with their next order you’ve got a fundamental problem – you’re taking part in the Waiting Game. It was Franklin Delano Roosevelt that said “The Only Thing We Have To Fear Is Fear Itself” and nothing is truer in business than this.
Your existing customer base can hold hidden treasures in terms of extra business. How proactive are you at going after it? Do you think ‘If I contact them then I run the risk of hassling them and then they won’t use me anymore’ – If this is your mindset then think again.
Exeter Together’s double decker promotional bus, nicknamed Bill, has been a big hit as hundreds of people climbed on-board during its tour of Exeter to find out whether they could save money on their houshold utility bill by joining the innovative collective switching initiatve.
Exeter Together has been brought to the region by Exeter City Council and the scheme, launched on Monday 18 February, hopes to help people save at least £100 off their heating bills by people coming together to switch utility providers.
Cllr Rachel Sutton, Lead Councillor for Sustainable Development...
The 2013 Easter Sunday Charity Event that has Everything! A BBQ, a fabulous raffle (raffle tickets can be bought in advance from the Bar V), Mark Travis singing LIVE, face painting from Party Paints... a Wine or Water stall... Archery, a fun dogs agility 'class' with Happy Dogs, a WIN A MINI competition and more!
DON'T miss this! Will be updated as we go along...
In the evening we will be ticketing an indoor live music event with live Latin dance music from STREET LIFE, an Auction *including Live Human Beings* and Burlesque from Cherry Ve'Dore! Then on to a DJ marathon (for...
Police are appealing for information following a burglary at a house in Cullompton, which took place between 6.15pm and 10.15pm on Saturday, 16 February 2013.
The property was entered and numerous items stolen, including a pair of drop earrings worth £900, a Sharp video camcorder, valued at £200, a red Samsung digital camera, worth £200 and an HP Photosmart Series 420 camera, valued at £179.
Anyone with information is asked to contact the Police on 101 or Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111, quoting refrence KU/13/139.
The British Dietetic Association (BDA) is supporting a new report from Sustain (the alliance for better food and farming), calling for better hospital food with the introduction of hospital food standards (in England).
The BDA, founded in 1936, is the professional association for registered dietitians in the UK. It is the nation's largest organisation of food and nutrition professionals with over 7,000 members. The BDA is also an active trade union.
As part of its Better Hospital Food campaign, the Sustain report called Twenty Years of Hospital Food Failure found that...
