Sports charity the South West Youth Games Trust has appointed its first ever Chief Executive. Chris Broadbent, who has previously worked for Team GB and for the London Olympics has joined the Trust with an aim to increase activity levels among young people across Devon and Cornwall. The charity was created in 2015 to save the Devon Youth Games and has since grown its main event into the South West Rotary Youth Games, expanding into Cornwall as well as every Devon district. It is now the region’s biggest youth multi-sport community event with around 10,000 taking part in the journey towards...
For the second year running Thomas Westcott Chartered Accountants has been included in the Top 50 of the UK's leading accountancy practices.
The Top 50 is compiled every year by accounting sector bible Accountancy Age which surveys the UK's leading accountancy practices, delving into firms' fee incomes and number of partners before publishing a league table of those its deems to be the profession's elite.
Considered an essential research tool for decision makers seeking professional financial advice and services, entry into the Top 50 is recognition of excellence within a...
Bolham Ward at the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital has received a donation of £1,250 from a group of Devon Freemasons as part of their bi-annual WAKE Fund presentation.
Every spring and autumn Freemasons from around Devon meet to give support totalling in excess of £50,000 to local charities and organisations throughout the county who are in need of assistance. The money is raised by the WAKE Fund, a trust conceived by the Right Worshipful Brother William Alexander Kneel, Provincial Grand Master from 1970 to 1984.
Bolham was nominated to receive the generous donation in...
Police are appealing to the public following allegations of a road rage incident in Exeter.
The incident occurred between 7.50-8am on Wednesday 22 November on Cumberland Way, Exeter. The victim driving a BT Openreach Transit van, the suspect a red BMW.
Both vehicles had come through the traffic lights at the junction with Main Road, Pinhoe and merged from two lanes into one, travelling towards Sowton.
The suspect who was driving the BMW got out of his vehicle and made threats, including hitting and head-butting and punching the window of the BT van.
Muddy obstacle course, The Bear Trail, which was established to get families enjoying good old-fashioned fun, has upped its honours count – picking up four amazing awards from Primary Times magazine.
The trail, which is based between Exeter and Cullompton, has won the category for Best Party Venue and been voted runner up in the categories of Best Family Attraction, Best Outdoor Play Activity Centre and been declared Overall Runner-up in the entire competition.
These awards follow The Bear Trail’s success in making it to the top three in the ‘Small Attraction of the Year’...
The Exeter Oxfam fundraising team are holding a Christmas-themed pub quiz on 5th December, 7:30pm at the Puerto Lounge on Exeter Quay.
This is the third quiz that the group have held since getting started in January and they are aiming to make it the biggest and best yet, with their goal to reach £1000 total in 2017.
Entry is £4 or £3 for students, and the money raised will go directly to Oxfam’s work around the world, including the current emergencies in Yemen and with the Rohingya in Bangladesh.
There will also be a raffle, with prizes including chocolates, cinema...
Imagine performing alongside Kylie, Madonna, Sting, James Brown, Sir Elton John and Sir Paul McCartney…. Well the world renowned London Community Gospel Choir have been there and done that! Combining rich harmonies and invigorating vocal gymnastics, the LCGC is an infectious celebration of gospel, swing-beat, R'n'B and soul.
And on 2nd December they’re coming to Exeter at the University Great Hall for a unique and must see concert.
Tickets are a snip at only £7 and must be brought in advance from www.rediscoverchurch.com/christmas
Devon residents are being called on to help prevent people in their communities from taking their own lives by supporting a project to train up hundreds of specialist suicide ‘first aiders’.
Suicide devastates lives, families and communities – in Devon two people take their own lives every week. Local Authorities, GPs, the NHS and the voluntary sector work closely together to prevent suicide. But often it is communities who are better placed to recognise the early signs of distress and intervene before a person’s problems reach crises point. Now Devon County Council’s Public Health...
Police were called just after 9.15am on Thursday 25 November with reports of a collision between a Vauxhall Astra and an 86-year-old local woman on Cowick Street, Exeter.
The serious collisions unit attended the scene to undertake initial investigation work.
The woman was taken to the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital with serious injuries including a fractured skull and injuries to her leg.
Anyone with any information is asked to contact 101@dc.police.uk quoting log number 149 for 23 November.
Residents from across Devon have been inspired to recycle more food thanks to a series of composting roadshows.
More than 1,000 pledges to recycle food waste were made by residents visiting one of the 11 road shows across Devon.
Composting is the most effective way to reduce waste - at least 30% of the contents in an average household bin can be composted.
The roadshows, run by Recycle Devon, aimed to inspire more people to either compost food or garden waste at home, or make use of their food waste collection in areas where they have one.
