Two teams from Colyton Grammar School, a state selective secondary school in Devon, have come top in the national Student Investor Challenge competition, beating 9,369 teams from schools around the country.
This is the first time that a school has had two teams in the final and taken the top two spots. The winning team from the school – RIJJED, comprising Year 10 students – is the youngest ever team to win the overall competition.
The Student Investor Challenge, which is run by financial education body The London Institute of Banking & Finance, seeks to engage young...
Michelmores law firm has today announced the promotion of two new partners. Chloe-Howard Smith, based at the firm's head office in Exeter has been promoted to Partner within the Real Estate team and Karen Williams to Partner within the Business team.
Chloe Howard-Smith joined Michelmores in 2006 and is part of the transactional real estate team. Chloe has a broad experience in commercial property work but her key focus is on residential development.
Karen Williams has been working with the Firm since 2008 and has a client base extending across the South West. She has...
Tails are wagging in excitement over this coming Sunday’s Dog-Friendly screening of Pick of the Litter, where hounds big and small (and hopefully well-behaved!) can join their humans for a trip to the cinema.
Pick of the Litter follows a litter of puppies from the moment they’re born and begin their quest to become guide dogs for the blind. Cameras follow these pups through an intense two-year odyssey as they train to become dogs whose ultimate responsibility is to protect their blind partners from harm. Along the way, these remarkable animals rely on a community of dedicated...
Local mum-trepreneur Laura Skilton celebrates her baby swim school business going national having already helped more than 5,000 children in Devon and Hampshire learn to swim since launching seven years ago.
Laura Skilton, who runs swim sessions in Exeter and Crediton, has rebranded her successful Baby Paddlers swim school this month launching as a national franchise programme which is already gaining interest from all over the country.
Baby Paddlers – now known as Baby Squids – is a well-established, highly successful swim school for 0-4-year olds focusing on building...
National initiative returned for its 4thyear, as new survey confirms the best breastfeeding support comes from fellow breastfeeders
Thousands of mums took part in The Big Breastfeeding Café this week. The nationwide campaign, led by breastfeeding brand Medela,connected families via a network of mini events on 1stMay.
Now in its 4th year, the 2019 celebration followed a recent survey that revealed 75% of mums believe that guidance from breastfeeding mothers positively impacted their feeding experience.One breastfeeding mum commented that she was “still breastfeeding thanks...
NHS Blood and Transplant launches the year-long national campaign, ‘Pass it on’, to increase awareness and understanding of the organ donation law change, which comes into place next year, across England.
From spring 2020, all adults in England will be considered as having agreed to donate their own organs when they die unless they record a decision not to donate or are in one of the excluded groups.
Those excluded will be people under 18, people who lack the capacity to understand the change and people who have lived in England for less than 12 months before their death or...
An array of Big Screen Events including children’s favourites, live theatre and live dance will come to Vue Exeter this May.
The National Theatre will be bringing one of its popular live screenings with All My Sons broadcast live from the Old Vic in London on Tuesday 14th May. Academy Award winner Sally Field (Steel Magnolias, Brothers & Sisters) and Bill Pullman (The Sinner, Independence Day) lead an impressive cast in Arthur Miller’s blistering drama. Set in 1947, Joe and Kate Keller are a success story, having built a home, raised two sons and established a thriving business...
Established in 2017, The Ness Dementia Centre in Teignmouth is a dementia community hub based on the Dutch dementia meeting centre model. It is one of the first centres in the UK to use this model and is helping Devon lead the way in dementia community care.
The model recognizes the need to involve not only the family, and the individual but the whole community in helping that individual to remain in their own home for as long as possible.
The centre runs courses for carers, cognitive stimulation for early diagnosis, home enablement and day activities designed to stimulate...
Monday saw Cancer Research UK’s Race for Life team with the help of cancer survivor Lyndsey Balsdon, Snap Fitness, and Starbucks, paint the town pink across various locations in the City of Exeter.
The team at Snap Fitness took part in the event by holding a Spinathon. Starbucks also supported the event by handing out Race for Life Coffee cup holders to all their customers, and they even managed to turn their Coffee pink for the day to support such a fantastic cause.
Cancer survivor Lyndsey, now 19-years-old from Okehampton, was five-years-old when she was diagnosed with...
The last major composition written by the Italian composer Rossini, his Petite Messe solonnelle, will be performed by Exeter Philharmonic Choir in June as part of its summer concert at the Northcott Theatre - a performance combining musical drama and colourful, memorable tunes.
Rossini’s Mass is a work of contrast and intensity, written five years before his death in Paris 151 years ago. Despite its title, it is neither ‘small’ nor ‘solemn’ but reflects the great talent which saw Rossini produce 39 operas in his lifetime.
The Choir will also perform Brahms Liebeslieder-...
