The Exeter & Heart of Devon Employment and Skills Board are working with local employers and colleges to develop a new award to help young people gain 'core employability skills'.

The Board have kicked off the process by inviting young design students to enter a competition to name and brand the award itself. Currently called the “Employability Challenge” Award, the Exeter & Heart of Devon Employment and Skills Board have invited Further Education and Sixth Form students studying design related subjects to enter a competition to create a corporate identity for the...

BRUSSELS (AP) — Goodbye Britain? For the European Union, a once-unthinkable question is looking more like a real possibility with each new grinding week of economic crisis. The reason is that bad times are forcing the 17 EU nations that use the euro currency to move ever closer toward some kind of United States of Europe — one that could make decisions about how much member countries spend and how much tax they collect.

If ever Britain had a nightmare, that's it.

The British public shows no interest in moving closer to the rest of Europe, and most can't even seem to stomach...

Students from schools in the South West will become real-life engineers for a day when they research, design and build solutions to real engineering problems.

• On Tuesday 20th November, John Bentley School (Calne) will host a Faraday Challenge Day. Teams from St Johns Marlborough (Marlborough), Abbeyfield School (Chippenham), Sheldon School (Chippenham), The Springfields Academy (Calne) and The Clarendon College (Trowbridge), will also take part.
• On Wednesday 21st November, teams from Chilton Trinity School (Bridgwater) will take part in a Faraday
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Jamie Vittles and Exeter City FC's Community Charitable Trust would like to thank all of the club’s Supporter Groups for voting in the Lloyds Bank Group Community Funding Competition, which took place during the summer.

We are delighted to report that Lloyds have announced Exeter City FITC as the winners of the voting for the Devon area, and have been awarded £5000 towards the refurbishment of the Fountain Centre next to St James’ Park.

Exeter City were selected from a group of four organisations from across the county and Jamie, who is Head of Community at the club,...

The Exeter & District Netball League is in full swing under the newly covered courts at the University of Exeter. This great facility has seen some cracking matches so far and two or three games into the season we can see how the league is shaping up.

Wasps A and Mixers are currently heading up Division 1 with clean sheets and over 190 goals each from their first three games. Division 2 is being led by the Bluebirds, who are seven points clear of ABW Raiders having played two matches more than them so far. West Exe NC Leopards are leading with the only clean sheet in what...

Over 50 dedicated students set off for destinations across Exeter, the south west and further afield raising funds for NSPCC during the Exeter College Jailbreak 2012 last week.

Contestants dressed as animals, superheroes, film characters and fairies were all trying to travel as far away from the college as possible without spending a penny of their own money. Organised into registered teams and armed with collection buckets, the students from across the college were keen to beat last year’s record destination of London.

“Each year the students choose a charity that we...

Exeter College power lifter Shachar Head was relieved to be back on British soil and reflecting on an eventful week in Boston, Massachusetts, USA which saw her break three “teenage 2” world powerlifting records and then make a hasty Sunday morning departure to escape the worst ravages of Superstorm Sandy which caused huge devastation along the Eastern Seaboard.

The last months had proved a rollercoaster of hard training, sweat and tears for the Exeter College A level PE, Human Biology and Psychology student, originally from Newton Abbot College, and the hard work proved successful...

Leading UK deck shoe brand, Chatham Marine has beaten stiff competition to win the highly acclaimed Design Award for Marine Equipment (DAME) in the Crew and Clothing Accessories category with its revolutionary sail cloth deck shoes – the first ever British engineered sail cloth deck shoe for the European market.

Commenting on the win, Chatham’s Managing Director, Philip Marsh, says, “We are delighted to have been recognised with this prestigious award, which we consider to be the most important in the marine industry. The recognition of this award further establishes our...

An opportunity has been created for contemporary artists to explore how printmaking can extend and evolve their practice.

Double Elephant Print Workshop (DEPW) is keen to reach out to contemporary artists and are particularly interested to encourage crossover between different practices. They are looking for artists with a genuine curiosity about printmaking, but have not included it so far as part of their practice. The organisers are not looking for artists who already use printmaking.

Over six evenings, the selected artists will work at DEPW to...

The Book Shop on Crediton High Street took a big step towards a new social enterprise era on Saturday 17th November with the launch of the share issue to create Crediton Community Bookshop.

The enterprise has already gained outstanding support. Patrons have been announced as Dame Babette Cole , Michael Morpurgo , Mal Peet and William Trevor . Speaking about them earlier this year, Michael Morpurgo said: "Every town needs a great book shop. Crediton has one. Long may it continue!"

The committee behind the initiative is full of plans to make this not just a...