The largest Olympic-style youth sports event in the region has awarded its 20th anniversary finals to Teignbridge district for 2018. Dawlish is set to host the South West Rotary Youth Games finals on Saturday 7 July. The annual multi-sport event was launched as the Devon Youth Games in 1999 and has since expanded across the South West to include teams from Cornwall and every Devon District competing in 20 sports. Around 10,000 young people aged 8-18, both able-bodied and disabled take part in the journey towards the Games each year. South West Youth Games Trust Chief Executive Chris...
An Exeter primary school and a solicitors’ office have joined forces to bring some Christmas cheer to people in the poorest country in Europe.
Children at Kenton Primary School and staff at Gilbert Stephens solicitors have put together dozens of festively decorated boxes of presents for those living in poverty in Moldova, formerly part of Romania.
The shoeboxes all contain basic items such as soap, toothbrushes and facecloths, warm hats and gloves, along with notebooks, pens, coloured pencils, and sweets. Boxes for children contain small toys and games.
Stagecoach South West has confirmed details of its Christmas bus services, with services operating throughout the holiday period excluding Christmas Day and New Year’s Day*.
Stagecoach has added extra journeys to its Red (Honiton Road) Park and Ride service on late night Thursdays. There will be additional buses from the city centre every half hour between 8.10pm and 10.10pm.
In Plymouth, Stagecoach is running a Sunday Park & Ride service from George Junction and Milehouse between 26 November and 24 December. First buses in will be shortly after 9am with the last...
Exeter Philharmonic Choir brings an early note of Christmas cheer to Exeter Cathedral - a repertoire of carols performed with Exeter Brass and Devon County Junior Choir.
Over two evenings, the Choir will provide the essential soundtrack to the Christmas festivities.
Conducted by Howard Ionascu, with a retiring collection in support of Farms for City Children.
"Carols in the Cathedral" is kindly supported by sponsors Clinton Devon Estates, Everys Solicitors and Renaissance Villages.
Panto is coming back home to the Exeter Northcott Theatre with a new production by one of the country’s leading pantomime directors.
Dick Whittington is set to open next month, marking a spectacular return to the theatre’s tradition of producing its own pantomimes.
The show follows Dick as he leaves his Exeter home for the bright lights of London in search of fame and fortune, his faithful Puss by his side.
The first Northcott panto since 2009, it promises plenty of audience participation, live music, magic, mayhem and lots of laughter as Dick reaches the big city...
Exeter Chamber of Commerce & Industry has appointed three new directors to its board. Laura Seaward, audits and accounts manager at Haines Watts Chartered Accountants; Joanne Caine, director of Cathedral Appointments and Julie Hawker, joint chief executive of social enterprise Cosmic were appointed at the Chamber’s Annual General Meeting.
Laura Seaward, a qualified accountant with fourteen years’ experience across a number of the region’s most high-profile accounting firms, becomes Chamber treasurer. Ms Seaward takes on the role following the fifteen-year service of Ben de Cruz...
Even more employment opportunities have been made available to students in Newton Abbot as a pioneering technical institution has made its employer partner collaboration with the Royal Navy official.
Captain David Joyce from the Royal Navy attended the charter signing and will now help shape the curriculum, provide Challenge Projects and offer work experience to ensure South Devon UTC students are ready for work when they finish Year 13.
During the visit, Captain Joyce met Ian Crews, Principal, Kerry Eldershaw, Head of Engineering and Barry Seager, Employer Liaison Officer...
Essential drainage repairs will be carried out on the road from Honiton to Dunkeswell, near Combe Raleigh, starting on Monday 4 December.
A culvert on the route has collapsed and needs replacement. The road will be closed for a maximum of five days while work is carried out. A signed diversion will be in place via the A30, Monkton, Upottery and Smeatharpe and vice versa. Councillor Stuart Hughes, Devon County Council Cabinet Member for Highway Management, said: “It’s essential this culvert is replaced for the safety of people using the road and we're investing in ensuring it is...
The dementia research charity BRACE and Kirby Laing Foundation have together awarded more than £190,000 to the University of Exeter Medical School to support cutting-edge genomic research to better understand the causes of dementia
Kirby Laing has provided £90,000 of funding to support a three-year PhD post in the Complex Disease Epigenetics Group within the Medical School’s world-leading research team that investigates how the way genes are activated influences disease.
Previously, the team has been involved in identifying a number of regions of the genome that are altered...
At a recent meeting at Cadogan Court, the Royal Masonic Benevolent Institution Care Home situated near Exeter, The provincial Grand Master of Devonshire Rt. W. Bro. Ian Kingsbury JP met up with John Austin the Chairman of “Freedomwheels” an Exeter based disability transport service where he presented him with a cheque for £500 from the Devonshire Masonic Benevolent Fund. This will enable their organisation to continue the good work they do for the foreseeable future, this was in addition to an earlier cheque presented to them by the members of Davie Masonic Lodge who are based in Exeter...
