Plans for the next section of the Teign Estuary Trail have been approved by Devon County Council’s Development Management Committee.
The decision is the latest positive announcement for the project after the development of the trail won the Excellence in Sustainable Infrastructure category at the recent Landscape Institute Awards.
Councillors backed the 5km extension of the multi-use trail from the Passage House Inn to Teignmouth which will be accessible to walkers, cyclists and people in wheelchairs and mobility scooters.
The Private Equity team at Foot Anstey LLP has supported and advised Access UK Ltd, on its acquisition of Legal Bricks. The move by Access further enhances its offering in the legal technology sector.
The Foot Anstey team was led by, Matt Stoate (Partner), Dominic Cromwell (Senior Associate), and Jack Harris (Associate), who advised Access on all legal aspects of the acquisition and worked in collaboration with all parties to deliver the desired outcome.
West Midlands-based Legal Bricks was launched in 2017 and delivers a customised online property search platform, as well...
Many of you might be wondering what development finance is and how it can help. Development finance has many different functions, which cover an array of topics; these include poverty recovery, infrastructure development, employment, industry growth, and many more. However, to understand it in an applied manner and how it's helpful, we need to first look at what it is and how it works. In this article, you're about to learn all the basics.
What Is Development Finance
To put it simply, development finance is a loan or some other kind of financial assistance that's given primarily...
Studying for a test is never easy, and it's even harder when you're not sure what to do. There are many different strategies that people use to study more effectively, but the most important thing to remember is that you should find out how your brain works best. If you know yourself and what kind of learner you are - visual, auditory, or kinesthetic - then studying will be much easier.
Types Of Learners
If you are a visual learner, then you need to see the material to understand it. If this is your learning style, try drawing out concepts and diagrams so that they can be seen...
Inspired Villages – which owns Millbrook retirement village in Exeter – has granted a special wish for resident and trailblazer Moira Vickerman. Thanks to the later living operator, Moira, aged 87, has visited her alma mater, the University of Exeter – where she was the first female president of the university’s law society from 1957-58.
Moira’s wish was granted as part of Inspired Villages’ ‘Retired? No, Inspired’ campaign, which is helping residents to achieve their long-held dreams. The campaign aims to show how your later years can be the best of your life because you finally...
When Covid forced the closure of the 220 popular GOLDIES Sing and Smile daytime FUN singalongs across England and Wales in March 2020, the charity then turned to the internet and launched “sofa singing” via Facebook and YouTube with twice-weekly sessions featuring all those popular Goldies songs of the 70s and onwards.
GoldiesLIVE.com sessions go out on Tuesdays and Thursdays each week and are led by two of the charity’s popular session leaders, Rachel and Cheryl. Last Autumn an additional Welsh language session was added, led by Sian. GoldiesLIVE.com sessions reach out to...
A week-long ‘festive’ virtual balloon race, launching from Santa’s village in Lapland, will take place from Friday 10 December to raise vital funds for Brainwave, who help disabled children reach their potential through a range of specialist therapies.
Balloons can be purchased for just £5, with prizes including a family weekend break to Camel Creek in Cornwall , 6-person Regatta tent, and family day tickets to Butlins. Balloons can also be purchased and gifted to friends, family, or colleagues – making a great alternative to Christmas cards or Secret Santa gifts.
This week the UK government announced the booster programme is being significantly expanded to fight the Omicron Covid-19 variant.
The Secretary of State for Health and Social Care has announced that current vaccines are likely to be at least partially effective against the Omicron variant and that having the booster offers a much higher antibody response against Covid-19.
Around 50,000 people are already being vaccinated against Covid-19 each week in Devon, Plymouth and Torbay. The NHS is working to increase this capacity following the announcement that the booster...
On Wednesday 24th November, in one of the worst incidents since 2014, 27 migrants lost their lives trying to cross the Channel. The group, who were travelling from Calais to Dover, were crammed onto a small inflatable dinghy in their attempt to reach the UK.
To honour and remember all those who tragically lost their lives, Exeter STAR held a vigil at St. Petrock’s Church in Exeter the following Saturday evening (27th) which lasted 27 minutes; a minute for each person who died. Members of the Exeter community came together with Student Action for Refugees (STAR) for the event, with...
Two members of South West Teacher Training - which is based in Exeter - shared details of its innovative mentoring scheme at a national conference.
South West Teacher Training (SWTT), which is located at West Exe School and is the Ted Wragg Trust’s school-centred initial teacher training programme, is designed and run by the schools and teachers from within its partnership.
Team members Chloe Fox and Carrie McMillan presented at the National Association for School Based Teacher Training (NASBTT) annual conference.
