Three Partners at employee-owned law firm, Stephens Scown LLP, have received the highest ranking and national recognition in the latest edition of Chambers and Partners’ High Net Worth Guide, which has just been published.
Following an extensive annual research programme, the Chambers High Net Worth Guide ranks the leading and most dedicated lawyers and law firms for international private wealth based on feedback from clients and other specialist industry professionals.
Private Client partners Phil Reed and Graham Murdoch retained their Band 1 status in the 2021 Guide,...
The team behind the Exmouth Pavilion Christmas Pantomime haven confirmed TV Legend and all round good fox, Basil Brush will join pantomime favourite Stuart Earp in this year’s production of Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs.
Basil Brush will feature as The Magic Mirror alongside Stuart Earp as Muddles, Harry Moore as Nurse Nellie, Kassie Malam as Snow White, Jessica Fay Long as The Wicked Queen and Exeter's own Sam Emmerson as The Prince.
Producer Kevin Brown says “It’s going to be a great pantomime this year after sadly having to cancel last year’s production, we cannot...
Exeter School of Art student Sophie Bruce and her team have created what is believed to be the only exhibition celebrating the history of the Apple Mac in the UK.
The Mac Museum exhibit opened last week at the college’s new Institute of Technology Digital and Data Centre (IoT) and will be on display throughout the summer.
Sophie said “The Mac Museum is a concept that was originally by my tutor Mike Krage. I got given the project last year, he asked me if I wanted to do it and I said absolutely. It was during the peak of lockdown.” She had originally gone with a modern...
The Heart of the South West LEP has secured £750,000 of funding from the Department for Education’s National Skills Fund to extend its current programme of Skills Bootcamps across the region.
Comprising flexible courses lasting up to 16 weeks’ duration, the eight additional Skills Bootcamps offer adults aged 19 or over the opportunity to build up or retrain in specific digital skills required by employers across the Heart of the South West LEP area, as well as in Dorset, Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly, and the West of England.
The UK’s leading developer and manager of retirement communities, McCarthy Stone, is inviting locals in Topsham to find out more about its forthcoming Pym Court Retirement Living Plus development, at two exclusive Discovery Days at The Devon Hotel in Matford, Exeter.
The free events take place on Wednesday 4th and Thursday 5th August between 10:30am and 5pm, and attendees are required to book a private, one-to-one appointment in advance in order to ensure everyone’s safety.
When complete, Pym Court will comprise of 53 one and two-bedroom apartments, which will be available...
The Fragrance Shop, the UK’s leading independent fragrance retailer, is excited to unveil another new store (the fourth store of 2021) in Exeter. Opening its doors on Friday 30th July in Princesshay Shopping Centre, The Fragrance Shop are ready to welcome new shoppers to explore and indulge in the best fragrances.
Customers can pop in and speak to one of The Fragrance Shop’s fragrance experts, to sample the hottest and newest fragrances for this summer and the bestseller of 2021 so far.
To celebrate the launch of the Exeter store, customers will be welcomed to its...
West Country folk singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Seth Lakeman will be celebrating 15 years of ‘Freedom Fields’ with a special show at Exeter Cathedral on 3rd November 2021.
Nominated for the coveted Mercury Music Prize in 2005 for 'Kitty Jay’, the record catapulted Lakeman into the forefront of the new British folk movement. His follow up was the gold-selling ‘Freedom Fields’ which was released twice in 2006. Produced by his brother Sean Lakeman it came out on iScream and was then re-released by Relentless (EMI) where it went on to become Seth’s first of 6 UK Top 40...
HMP Exeter has become one of the first prisons in England to have eliminated a potentially fatal virus from its population in time for World Hepatitis Day on Wednesday (28 July).
Working together with the Hepatitis C Trust and Gilead Sciences, Practice Plus Group’s clinical team – who run healthcare in the prison – have carried out targeted testing.
Of the men in the prison, over 95 per cent have been tested in the last year, meeting the target set by the partnership, who devised the programme to eliminate hepatitis C (HCV) by 2025 in all 47 prisons currently served by...
When your office is a little bit more compact than you’d like, it can sometimes feel suffocating. If there is no other space available for you to work, it can be a good idea to look into ways of making that space a bit more enjoyable to spend time in. Sometimes, by thinking outside of the box, that space can instead before comfortable, as opposed to cramped. Some alterations or different working processes that you may think of might not be suitable, however, especially if these changes require authorisation from higher ups within the company.
The pool and health suite at Exeter’s Riverside Leisure Centre has re-opened after a four-year closure.
Millions of pounds have been spent on refurbishing the building, following a fire in February 2017 which closed the entire facility for months.
The gym and sports halls were back in operation later that year, but whilst fire damage was being repaired, unrelated structural weaknesses were revealed.
Exeter City Council leader Phil Bialyk officially re-opened the pool and health suite at a short ceremony on Saturday and said it was “absolutely” worth the wait....
