Apprentices at the University of Exeter will take part in a series of events during National Apprenticeship Week (5-9 March 2018).
The university employs 40 apprentices, and they will take on challenges ranging from a live broadcast to escaping from locked rooms at Exeter’s Mission Escape.
They will also join the Apprenticeship Games in Cornwall, and help promote apprenticeships and answer questions at Exeter College’s Apprenticeship Expo.
The University of Exeter’s apprentices, aged 16-58, are employed at three campuses across Devon and Cornwall. Since April 2017,...
Your essential guide to What’s On in and around Exeter this weekend (2-4 March).
THEATRE
A Tomb With A View Friday & Saturday, The Blackmore Theatre, Exmouth This play is set in a sinister, old library. There, a lawyer reads a will to an equally sinister family. One family member has werewolf tendencies, another wanders around in a toga of Julius Caesar, and a third, a gentle old lady, who plants more than seeds! By Act 3, there are more corpses than live cast members left. The whole plot heads towards a surprising conclusion! This is the first of the Tomb trilogy....
Tickets are selling fast for an evening with Bryan Robson OBE, with premium tables now sold out.
The event takes place on Monday, April 16, 2018 at the Great Hall at Exeter University, and is hot on the heels of the sold-out Paul Merson and Ray Parlour evening which takes place on January 30.
An evening with Bryan Robson is kindly sponsored by RGB Building Supplies with tickets for the event costing just £36 per person, with a standard table of 10 available for just £300.
Join us for an evening that will look back on the football career of a true legend and longest-...
A group of Dartmoor farmers have signed up to a new scheme to benefit wildlife in three Dartmoor river catchment areas.
So far 34 farmers in the East Dart, Upper Tavy and Cherry Brook/Lower West Dart catchments have signed up to work together to improve the natural environment at a landscape scale, to achieve greater improvements collectively than individual holdings may achieve on their own. A second scheme based around the Erme/ Yealm catchments is also being funded.
The schemes are being funded through the Countryside Stewardship Facilitation Fund which was established...
A multi-agency operation has been underway for the past two days across Devon and Cornwall as Storm Emma hit the South West.
Emergency services have been working day and night to reopen roads, clear traffic and help those in need.
Police officers have been dealing with a number of road incidents over the past couple of days and stress that you should only travel if absolutely necessary.
If you do need to travel by car, please ensure you wrap up warm and take supplies.
Rest centres have now been closed across the region as roads reopened and drivers have been...
PEOPLE in the South West are being challenged to row a marathon in March as part of an oar-some fundraising effort for Cancer Research UK.
In partnership with the renowned Oxford & Cambridge Boat Race, now known as The Cancer Research UK Boat Race, the charity is encouraging people to go the distance and cover 26.2 miles in stages or in one go, anytime in March.
Would-be rowers can take on The Great Row as part of a team or they can sign up for a solo effort.
To help participants off the start line, Better Leisure centres across the UK will open their doors and...
Highways teams continue to work through the night to treat Devon’s main roads, ahead of a forecast of more freezing temperatures overnight which looks set to render roads hazardous in many parts of the county.
Snow blowers, snow ploughs and gritters have been working over the last 48 hours to clear the majority of A roads in the county, although some in moorland areas are still impassable.
Most minor B roads are blocked with snow drifts of 6-8 feet remaining on some roads.
Devon’s fleet of gritters will continue working overnight, but the advice to people remains...
Road conditions across Devon today have been described as ‘deceptive’ by the County Council’s Highways Operations Manager, Chris Cranston.
“Despite relatively little snow overnight, the freezing rain across the county has left many roads still impassable, and people are being encouraged to think carefully about making any journeys until the roads have been cleared,” he said.
“We are just reopening the A380 Northbound, and the rest of the major road network is now generally passable with care with 4-wheel drive vehicles, although the situation is still variable across the...
It was a full house earlier this week as the Conservative Group, which leads East Devon District Council, elected its new leadership team at the Annual General Meeting.
With Paul Diviani stepping down after leading the Conservative Group and East Devon District Council to great success since 2011, interest in the future shape of the group was keen.
Ian Thomas, currently Portfolio Holder for Finance was elected as Group Leader. Ian has represented Trinity Ward, since 2009 and is a Director of the Exeter Science Park Company.
With widespread snowfall across the county, Devon County Council has announced it will close the A380 Telegraph Hill from 3pm today (Thursday 1 March) as a precautionary measure.
The decision to close the A380 between Splatford Split and Eagle Farm, has been taken as part of the Haldon/Telegraph Hill plan. Highways England will continue treating the A38 Haldon Hill, and Devon County Council will focus its efforts on keeping traffic moving on the alternative coastal road, A379 (Dawlish/Teignmouth).
The Met Office has issued a red warning for heavy snow across most of the...
