Exeter Philharmonic Choir's two annual carol concerts at the city's cathedral saw record attendances this year.
The choir, one of the oldest established choral groups in Britain, is celebrating its 170th season.
Members chose to donate the proceeds of their retiring collection to Exeter Community Initiatives, a charity which runs community projects for vulnerable people in the city. The collection raised over £2,850.
The choir's next concert at the cathedral will be a performance of Verdi's Requiem on March 18th.
Logistics firm Kay Transport, in Ivybridge, is helping to transport an industry record number of pallets this Christmas and move goods worth at least £340 million to the British economy.
Kay Transport is a member of Palletways UK, Europe’s largest and fastest growing express palletised freight network which reports that, in November, more than 500,000 pallets were moved. December started with a record week of 117,000 pallets handled – the final figure is expected to hit 350,000. The combined 850,000 total is an industry record.
The Post Office is reminding customers that the CWU has called strike action in 300 of its 11,600 branches on Saturday 24th December, which may result in the closure of some of these branches.
Kevin Gilliland, Post Office, Group Network and Sales Director, said: “The vast majority of our directly managed branches were open for business during strike action earlier this week. However, we are reminding customers who need to access any of our services before Christmas that all our branches will be open for business as usual on Thursday and Friday.
The Thurlestone Hotel near Kingsbridge is enjoying extra reasons to celebrate this festive season, with both the hotel’s restaurant and the Village Inn picking up AA Rosette awards following a recent inspection. The Margaret Amelia Restaurant, which previously held one rosette, has now been upgraded with two, while the Village Inn, which was substantially refurbished earlier this year, has been given one rosette for the first time. Awarded by AA hotel and restaurant inspectors, the prestigious rosettes recognise the highest standards of food and service in hotels and restaurants across the...
Connecting Devon & Somerset (CDS), the largest Government funded superfast broadband programme in the UK, has today signed new contracts with Ultrafast broadband provider, Gigaclear, for four of the six lots on offer for phase two of its roll-out. This will deliver a £62.25m million network to an additional 35,225 of the hardest to reach homes and businesses in the region by 2019. The winning bidders for the two remaining lots will be announced early in the New Year. (Note to News Editors: See accompanying map for lots) The new contracts mean that homes and businesses will be able to...
Christmas jumpers, a flock of knitted sheep, festive lights and children in nativity costumes created a fun filled carol service at Isca Church.
The nativity story was told by Isca's children’s worker Jane Webber, helped by a flock of knitted sheep and a cast of children.
After the service everyone tucked into festive food cooked by a team led by Heather Knee, who used to run the celebrated Georgian Tea Rooms in Topsham.
Leading telecoms provider Onecom has become one of the first companies to be awarded the status of Total Communications Partner under the new Vodafone Partner Programme.
The award comes after Onecom staff completed thousands of hours of training in total communications expertise and customer excellence.
A total of 425 staff members at Onecom’s Hampshire headquarters and at its offices around the UK completed a combined 1,882 hours of training to meet Vodafone’s requirements for submission to the programme.
The revised process is designed to take into account the...
A local Samaritans branch is linking with another charity to provide free support sessions for people who have lost a friend, relative or colleague to suicide.
The Exeter, Mid & East Devon Samaritans and the Devon branch of Cruse Bereavement Care are jointly arranging the groups, each of which is open to up to eight people who can share their experiences and offer each other support.
The aim is to attract those bereaved three months or longer ago, who are then encouraged to attend sessions on six consecutive weeks in central Exeter. The next course begins in the New...
Stagecoach South West announced today that, starting from 3 January 2017, it is merging its Blue, SR4 (Sowton) and Green (Matford) park and ride services.
This will create a new cross-city connection with the route simply branded as ‘Green’ park and ride. The Red park and ride timetable, serving Honiton Road, will remain unchanged.
The new service will operate up to every 15 minutes, 6 days a week, with the end-to-end journey taking around half an hour.
As well as the park and ride sites, the service will include stops at Middlemoor, Heavitree Shops, Exeter...
At around 4pm on Saturday 17 December 2016, police were informed that a collision had taken place involving a tractor that was towing a single axle agricultural trailer close to Harts Farm, Hemyock, close to the Devon, Somerset border (Cullompton area).
A number of passengers were riding on the trailer when one of them fell off and went under the trailer and was run over by one of the trailer’s wheels.
The casualty, a man aged 64 who lives in a nearby village suffered severe abdominal injuries and was airlifted to Derriford hospital in Plymouth.
