A local housebuilder has launched a scheme to support youngsters keen to try out snowsports at the Exeter & District Ski Club.
Redrow South West, the developer behind Saxon Brook, Romansfield, and St Michael’s Meadow, has celebrated its partnership with GB Snowsport by creating a £10,000 Winter Sports Fund to encourage local children, and youngsters’ groups and clubs, to take to their local snowdome or dry ski slope and try skiing or snowboarding for the first time.
The initiative, launched on the eve of the Winter Olympics, which starts on 4 February, aims to inspire...
Museum visitor Joe proposed to his partner Dawn at the Royal Albert Memorial Museum (RAMM) in December
Exmouth resident Joe McIntee got down on one knee and proposed to Dawn, now his fiancée, on the 21 December 2021 in the museum’s Geology gallery. RAMM was the location for their very first date, exactly two years ago to the day.
With the help of the RAMM team, Joe arranged to have a ring dangling from the tail of a 3D-printed model carnosaurus, his favourite dinosaur. The carnotaurus was hidden in the Geology case, ready for Dawn to find it and say 'Yes'. It was on their first...
People from each corner of the globe have increasingly started playing online casino games in the past two years. Indeed, the unfortunate outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic had a lot to do with it, but the fact that this form of pastime is fun and exciting also brings about its rapid expansion.
Numerous rookie gambling beginners visit the list of EU casino sites to play casino games and become more experienced. If you’re also new to the whole idea, we suggest you read our list of tips and tricks on what to do as a gambling newbie to avoid making mistakes and losing cash.
Punters in the UK have fewer restrictions to navigate when placing sports bets or playing in casinos. This reality is because the UK has fairly lax gambling laws compared to other countries like America. Therefore, a lot of betting activities can legally take place. However, the UK's gambling industry is still regulated to keep players safe. The Gambling Act of 2005 was the first major legislation to regulate betting since the 1961 legislation of off-track gambling and betting shops. The Act was established to regulate all types of gambling, minus spread betting. The Gambling Act also...
New analysis has found that the southwest region of the UK is the country’s most dangerous place to work.
The study by A-Plan Insurance examined the Labour Force Survey to reveal the region in the UK that is most susceptible to workplace injuries based on the most non-fatal injuries reported over the past three years.
No workplace is completely free from injury, be it a construction site or doctors' surgery however some areas of the UK appear more prone to accidents than others.
In total, there have been 2,260 injuries per 100,000 people in the southwest...
Two family-run property firms in Cullompton have joined forces to become a leading sales and lettings company.
Thorne & Carter have teamed up with Aspen Property Management Ltd to form Thorne, Carter & Aspen .
The merger took place after both businesses decided working together was the perfect way to secure their futures after the retirement of key founders and partners.
Thorne & Carter estate agents have had offices in Cullompton since the 1930s, while letting agents Aspen Property Management Ltd was set up in the town in 1993.
The government-funded Train4Tomorrow programme is running a Digital Jobs Fair on Wednesday 16 March 2022, to connect employers with local adults who have recently completed a digital bootcamp to gain in-demand skills.
The South West is facing a skills shortage. The rapid growth of the digital sector has led to businesses struggling to find the skilled people they need to meet their demand, and businesses across the region are facing recruitment challenges. The Train4Tomorrow programme aims to tackle the skills crisis by offering adults access to fully-funded training in in-demand...
Vranch House is a pioneering special school and therapy centre for Devon children. Vranch House was set up by Charles Vranch as a charity in 1969 and the school opened its doors to pupils for the first time in May 1971.
The centre, on Pinhoe Road in Exeter, now provides clinical outpatient services to hundreds of children a year from across Devon, as well as an Ofsted outstanding-rated specialist school for disabled children aged 2-19 years old.
Vranch House School has always brought together the very best practices in education and therapy and this has culminated into...
The league operates on Tuesday evenings @ ISCA ACADEMY astro pitch and is affiliated to the FA.
Qualified referees are used to officiate games and all games are 40 minutes slots. The weekly fee to play is from £4 per player and each team play 1 game per week. Fixtures and league tables are on the league website and updated on a weekly basis.
Over 100 players weekly take part in the league and any standard of player or team are welcome to join. You can sign up as team or as an individual player and individual players will be entered into a team.
Soccersixes Wednesday night 6-a-side league held at ISCA College currently holds space for up to 16 teams playing on one single night.
Why not get a group together be it through people at work or mates outside of work with an aim to be more active and support the community league in doing so.
Divisions available to suit all player standards and one-off games are available to trial the league without any future commitments. If after the trial the team wants to commit to a season, then sign up is online.
Soccersixes hold three other leagues in the area on 3...
