Have you ever let an opening for your dream job pass you by because you dread the employment background check? It is an all too common a story among young graduates looking for their first job, mid-level professionals aiming to fast-track their way up the corporate ladder or switch between two when stuck, and people with criminal histories seeking to return to work.
This fear is not entirely baseless as there are estimates that every three out of four businesses perform screenings on all potential employees, the scope of which may be as broad as their work and credit histories,...
Leading Devon housebuilder Barratt David Wilson Homes has built a custom-designed bat roost alongside the new homes on its new development outside Exeter.
Specifically designed to encourage up to five species of bat, including the very rare greater and lesser horseshoe bats, the roosting barn at Victoria Heights , on the outskirts of Alphington is now ready for habitation. The show homes for this brand new community have also just opened for viewings and several homes have already been reserved, with the first sales expected to complete next month.
Salvage Hunters, the well-loved and most watched Quest TV and Discovery Network show, is on the hunt for new locations in Devon to feature in the upcoming series.
We follow decorative antiques expert Drew Pritchard as he travels around various locations in the UK and abroad on his quest to find and buy unusual objects with an interesting history.
Drew really visits everywhere - beautiful estates, old family businesses, barns and attic’s stuffed full of unwanted things, museums, factories, collectors and iconic religious sites buying all sorts along the way – from...
Exeter city will unfold into a week-long festival of play, colour and kindness in the middle of June.
As we re-emerge from lockdown, families, children and adults are all invited to play games, make music and have a lot of fun in the green spaces of our city centre. Watch out for kindness ninjas roaming the streets, playful yoga in the park, origami, quizzes and a scavenger hunt. After months of being deserted, the city centre will blossom once again as we celebrate Kinder Exeter. This event will be ticketed, limited to smaller groups, keeping in line with current Covid-19...
There was a record increase in demand for electric car home charging grants in 2020, according to figures from the Office for Zero Emission Vehicles.
Over 42,000 grants for home charging devices were made last year, worth nearly £17m, which was over a quarter of the value of grants since the government launched the scheme in 2014.
Electric Vehicle Homecharge Scheme (EVHS) grants provide 75% of the cost of installing electric vehicle devices at domestic properties in the UK.
The south east leads the UK for the highest percentage of devices under the EVHS – 735...
CHILDREN in Exeter are being called to pen a short poem about hunger and what it means to them, as part of a national competition run by anti-poverty charity the Trussell Trust, which supports a network of food banks across the UK.
The charity is calling on youngsters, aged nine and under, to create and draw a hungry character and tell its story in the form of a short poem – as part of its Bye Bye Hunger competition.
The top twenty entries will be published in a poetry book and one star prize winner will see their character brought to life in the Trussell Trust campaign...
A new South West business using artificial intelligence to accurately assess risk in the commercial property insurance sector has raised close to £1 million as it launches in the UK and USA.
Founded by entrepreneur and innovator Anthony Peake, Exeter-based Intelligent AI has been backed by investors and the Government through funding from Innovate UK.
The company has developed an online Intelligent Risk platform using 300 real-time data sources ranging from weather and flood risks to crime rates and fire service response times. It could help to save the sector over £500m...
A project to remove greenhouse gases from the atmosphere will be crucial to the UK’s bid to reach Net Zero by 2050 – and is set to spark the biggest change in land use since the Second World War.
The NetZeroPlus project, led by Professor Ian Bateman from the University of Exeter Business School, is one of five interdisciplinary projects that will receive a total of £31.5m from UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) – with each project investigating a different method of removing harmful greenhouse gas emissions from the atmosphere.
A COVID-19 pandemic is a worldwide event that has affected the lives of many businesses and employees. It has led to some businesses having to close permanently while leaving others having to operate remotely from home.
In addition to these changes, what would have been affected as well is employees’ attitudes to workplace benefits and what they value as being the most important aspect to have as a result of working for a business, particularly during these challenging times.
According to Cezanne HR’s employee workplace benefits study , 42% of firms have either made or...
Plans for Cats Protection’s trailblazing adoption centre in Exeter have been revealed and given the green light to proceed this summer, featuring pioneering facilities for cats, staff and visitors, including an enrichment garden.
The first building works, which will see a new adoption centre replace the feline welfare charity’s existing Exeter Axhayes Adoption Centre at Clyst Honiton, are scheduled to begin by mid-June.
Stockport architects Bowker-Sadler have designed a bespoke centre on the current site, taking inspiration from historical local architectural forms...
