With less than a month to go until Rugby World Cup 2015 kicks-off in England and Cardiff, fans are being warned to only buy from official sources after the discovery of counterfeit Rugby World Cup 2015 tickets in circulation.
The City of London Police are working with Tournament Organisers, England Rugby 2015, and Tournament Owners, Rugby World Cup Limited, to carry out a full investigation to help ensure that fans are made aware. An image of one of the counterfeit tickets can be downloaded here.
With 17 days to go until the start of the Tournament, there is still high...
Investigative work to review the options for creating new flood defences in Exmouth is expected to start from Monday September 7.
The work is being carried out as part of the Exmouth Tidal Defence Study.
East Devon District Council (EDDC) is working with the Environment Agency on this project, which is reviewing the options to upgrade Exmouth’s sea and estuary defences. The project aims to protect the estuary frontage, parts of the seafront and more than 1,000 properties in the town.
The partnership has commissioned WSP Consulting Engineers to carry out a flood risk...
The number one reason people leave their jobs is to seek out opportunities with a better work life balance, reveals new research from leading recruitment specialist Robert Half UK.
With unique access to employees when they leave a company via exit interviews, nearly a third (30%) of HR directors identified the attraction of a better work life balance is what really drives people to switch jobs. There has been a significant change in the trend of why people seek new employment opportunities today, compared to just four years ago. In 2011, HR directors cited higher remuneration as...
Due to popular demand, reggae legends UB40 have confirmed seventeen UK live dates for October 2015. The autumn leg of UB40’s ‘Getting Over The Storm’ tour begins on Friday, 2nd October at De La Warr Pavilion in Bexhill and ends at Cardiff’s new state-of the-art Tramshed venue on Saturday, 24th October – by which time the band will have completed ninety UK shows and performed to over 170,000 people since the tour began in March 2014, making it the biggest UK tour of UB40’s career. UB40 are Robin Campbell (co-lead vocals and guitar), Duncan Campbell (lead vocals) Earl Falconer (bass, vocal...
Businesses in Devon face severe financial penalties if they fail to take action in preparation for the introduction of the Government's compulsory workplace pension scheme, called auto-enrolment.
Under Auto-Enrolment every employer with at least one eligible member of staff must enrol them into a workplace pension scheme and contribute towards it.
The process might be relatively simple, or much more complex depending on how many employees are affected. To help business owners navigate this potentially difficult task Thomas Westcott Chartered Accountants are holding seminars...
Habitat management and better summers in recent years have produced large numbers of beautiful and threatened orchids and damselflies on Dartmoor.
Dartmoor National Park (DNP) has been in a management agreement with the landowner of a cluster of haymeadows on the edge of Widecombe-in-the-Moor for over 20 years now. The fields were in urgent need of management, as no hay cut or grazing was taking place, and the flowers were beginning to disappear under thick grass, bracken, and thorn bushes.
Now, sympathetic meadow management has been in place for a number of years, and the...
Homeowners and private-rented householders in selected areas of Devon are being offered grants of up to £7,000 to help insulate their homes.
Teignbridge, North Devon and Torridge district councils are working with Cosy Devon and E.ON to provide new 'Pioneer Places' grants towards the cost of solid wall insulation. The funding has been awarded by the Department of Energy and Climate Change, with North Devon Council leading the project.
This month, letters will be sent to 13,000 prospective householders in selected areas of each district: Newton Abbot and Kingsteignton in...
Devon Adoption Information Morning September 10am – 12noon
Our Buckfast office is open on one Saturday of every month where you can talk with our specialist adoption social workers and experienced adoptive parents about all aspects of adoption. The next open morning is September 5th from 10am to 12 noon.
10am – 11am Presentation with the chance to hear from one of our adopters
11am – 12 noon Staff and adopters available for individual questions and discussion
An Elizabethan Assassin: Theodore Paleologus: Seducer, Spy and Killer by John Hall
The first biography of a mercurial character from the Elizabethan underworld
Seducer, spy and ruthless assassin, Theodore Paleologus, claimed to be heir to the ancient family of emperors of Byzantium and became intimately involved with the great courtiers and notorious villains of the Elizabethan world.
In this first biography of Theodore Paleologus, new documentary evidence exposes him as a hardened mercenary and killer in the pay of the wicked Earl of Lincoln but also supports his...
Concerts in the West Press Release August 2015 Sophie Rosa (violin) and Simon Lane (piano) concert series 12-14 November At just seven years of age, violinist Sophie Rosa was chosen to perform a solo concerto in front of HRH Princess Margaret - early proof of the prodigious talent of this exciting young musician who has performed regularly throughout the UK and internationally since she was a child. Since then Sophie Rosa has gone on to achieve numerous awards and was a finalist in the BBC Young Musician of the Year competition in 2006. In November, Sophie Rosa, partnered by the...
