A local digital marketing agency is aiming to help businesses hit the ground running in 2018 with a series of free events.
The first masterclass, ‘Five simple ways to boost your enquiries in 2018’, is to be held on Tuesday 6th February and is aimed at any business in Devon or Cornwall.
Director of MiHi Digital, Mark Worden has been specialising in digital marketing for more than a decade, and having set up his own business four years ago, has worked with more than 250 businesses across a wide range of industries, and generated more than £1 million in client enquiries....
Bob Rutter, aged 76, and his wife Sue have lived in Seaton for the past 18 years. After a 40 year career as a pub landlord, Bob was enjoying an active and sociable retirement playing bowls and golf when he was diagnosed with a rare cancer, lymphoma in the brain.
Shortly after receiving the devastating news, Bob was referred to local charity Hospiscare and has been attending weekly sessions at Kings House Day Hospice in Honiton. Here, Bob has met and made friends with other people who are going through a similar experience to him. One of those friends was a patient called Gill. Bob...
When a crime from the 1930s remained unsolved, author Diane Janes took it upon herself to find justice for 28 year old Evelyn Foster.
"The case of Evelyn Foster’s murder was fascinating to me. Found 70 feet away from the road crawling out of her flame-engulfed car, her body singed, she’d used her dying breaths to explain what had happened to her. But the case had never been solved. So, 86 years on, I set out to do exactly that."
Honiton-based Diane will be signing copies of Death at Wolf's Nick at WHSmith Exeter on 27th January 2018 at 12.30pm. Come along and find out how...
Mayborn Group (“Mayborn”), the business behind the global superbrand ‘Tommee Tippee', announced the acquisition of one of the UK’s leading baby sleep brands, The Gro Company.
Mayborn’s international growth strategy will be accelerated by the acquisition of Gro Company, marking a move to expand its business within the baby sleep-time category
Commenting on the acquisition, Mayborn’s CEO, Steve Parkin said: “Gro Company has a fantastic range of well-loved and respected products which help parents get babies to sleep safely. It shares a number of synergies with our Tommee...
A new exhibition by the Heritage Lottery funded Moor than meets the eye scheme is currently on display at the Dartmoor National Park Visitor Centre, Princetown.
The exhibition features some of the twenty-eight heritage projects that make up the scheme, including those run by local communities who have been telling the Dartmoor Story from a parish perspective.
Restoring the Ten Commandments Stones monument, excavating a ‘lost’ medieval manor, protecting bats in the Bovey Valley and investigating a post-medieval farmstead are just some of the projects featured.
East Devon District Council has recently been contacted several times by members of the public reporting problems caused by dogs being exercised without lead restraint in The Byes, Sidmouth.
From the information received, it appears that the dogs in question are not sufficiently well trained to be walked safely without a lead. In one incident, on Christmas Day, a person walking two large dogs behind Sidmouth College was unable to prevent them jumping up and frightening a girl walking with her family.
On Christmas Eve, a local resident reported that an Alsatian in an orange...
The exceptional achievements of students at Exeter College have been celebrated at a glittering awards ceremony.
A total of 27 winners were named from across Devon and beyond, highlighting the wider geographical reach of the college, at the Exeter College Annual Student Awards. The winners were joined by friends and family, together with sponsors, community and business leaders.
The award categories covered the college’s broad offer of programmes, from a range of full time and part time programmes to apprenticeships, and many, many more. The college was also delighted to...
People in Exeter are being encouraged to find out about the fantastic rewards and opportunities a career in teaching offers by attending the Train to Teach roadshow when it visits the Mercure Exeter Rougemont Hotel on Wednesday 24 January 2017. The event - part of the annual Get Into Teaching campaign - is aimed at encouraging more graduates with the passion and potential to teach. It offers a chance for aspiring teachers to get all their questions about a career in teaching answered in one place. It will highlight the competitive starting salaries and excellent employment prospects as...
The Devon Branch of the Campaign to Protect Rural England is commissioning evidence-based research to question the number of new homes that need to be built on greenfield sites to meet the county’s housing needs.
At a meeting in Exeter next week, CPRE Devon will announce the appointment of independent consultants to carry out a proper analysis of the figures used to justify the building of tens of thousands of new homes across Devon over the next ten years.
Around one hundred and fifty individuals and organisations have already booked to attend CPRE Devon’s free seminar “...
