Devon County Council will be raising the European flag at County Hall to mark international Europe Day. The ceremony will take place at 12.30pm on Thursday 9 May.
Exactly 63 years ago the French Foreign Minister, Robert Schuman, took the first steps in a speech that held out a hand of friendship to Germany, towards the creation of the European Economic Community, which developed to become the European Union.
Mr Schuman spoke of their two countries cooperating with each other to pool their economic resources, and to no longer be enemies.
More Devon children have been offered a place at their first choice secondary school for this September. 97 per cent of the families which applied to Devon County Council have been offered their first choice school compared with 93.7 per cent for last year. Altogether, 6,091 children have been offered places in Devon schools with a further 464 being offered places in other local authority schools. Only 12 children throughout the county have not been able to be accommodated in one of their preferred schools. In all nearly 93 per cent of applicants used Devon’s online service to submit their...
2012 saw the launch of an unprecedented countywide project aimed at tackling one of Devon’s most prevalent social issues. But how has dance been a powerful weapon in the fight against rural isolation?
In 2004 the Countryside Agency (which has now become Nature England since 2006) published a report entitled 'Breaking Down Barriers' which investigated the effects of rural isolation on many rural communities in Devon. Rural isolation is widely defined as the lack of access to vital public services, transport, jobs, training opportunities, education or leisure activities due...
