Devon

Charity takes steps to ensure continued support for ‘priority children’

Families for Children, local adoption agency and charitable trust who cover Devon, Dorset, Cornwall and Somerset, are delighted to announce the appointment of new a new Fundraising & Engagement Specialist, Tracy Ebbrell.

At a crucial time for Adoption in the UK, Families for Children is focussing on finding families for ‘priority’ children. These include older children, sibling groups and children with additional needs. It is these groups of children and their adoptive families who benefit from the work of the charity. Tracy has been appointed to help meet the increasing demand...

Interested in volunteering for RNIB and Action for Blind People?

Event Date: 
17/02/2016 - 2:00pm
Venue: 
Cliffden Hotel, 20 Dawlish Rd, Teignmouth TQ14 8TE

Are you keen to make a real difference in 2016? We're in need of volunteers to join our Team and help to make every day better for people living with sight loss or blindness.

We are running a series of information events across the country in January and February where you can meet Staff and existing volunteers, find out about current opportunities and sign up as a volunteer.

From setting up a fundraising group with friends to arranging and helping at collections, speaking about the charity to potential supporters, helping in our local Vision Hotel or providing technology...

Exeter firm develops world leading solutions for the upstream oil and gas industry

An Exeter based provider of specialist products and services for the exploration of oil and gas has doubled its engineering team as a result of growing demand for its world leading patented products and services.

Founded in 1992, AnTech is a family run business which identified a niche in the market to design and manufacture products that were otherwise unavailable to the oil and gas industry. The company provides high quality, innovative and customised products which are sold across the globe to all of the major service companies.

In 2013, the firm launched its Directional...

Exmouth police appeal after town centre fight

Authored by News Desk
Posted: Wed, 02/03/2016 - 3:43pm

Police are appealing for witnesses after an altercation took place near The Strand at Exmouth, on Sunday the 31st January at around 2pm.

Detective Sergeant Pete Boorn said: “We are currently investigating an alleged fight that took place outside The Strand in Exmouth.

"While one man has been charged in connection with this incident, we believe that there were a large amount of witnesses present who could help police with their enquiries.

“We are therefore asking anyone in the area who witnessed the incident to come forward to the police. Please make yourselves known...

Birth & Death & Here & Now

Event Date: 
08/03/2016 - 7:30pm to 12/03/2016 - 7:30pm
Venue: 
The Bike Shed Theatre, Exeter

Birth & Death & Here & Now is about exactly those things; The moment of birth, the moment of death and the moment that is happening right now. The show explores each moment with a joyful mix of childish freedom and the hindsight of life experience, drawing on the real feelings and experiences of Adam and the people present in the room with him.

We meet ourselves in baby form, we are confronted by one of the many possible manifestations of death and we are thrown into the NOW with Adam as he seeks to ride the moment that we are all living together.

The show gives...

Zoe donates birthday and Christmas presents to help beat the boredom on Bramble

Zoe Drew, 22 from Sidmouth, has donated box-loads of toys and games to Bramble Ward at the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital to help entertain young patients.

This year, instead of asking for birthday and Christmas presents from her family and friends, Zoe asked for gifts that could be donated to the children’s ward to help patients beat the boredom whilst in hospital.

Zoe said: “In August 2014 I had an illness that led to me being in a wheelchair. I’ve spent the last 17 months coming in and out of hospital, so I know how boring it can be in here.”

She recently...

Your guide to What's On this weekend

Your essential guide to What’s On in and around Exeter this weekend (5-7 February).

THEATRE

Gangsta Granny Friday & Saturday, Northcott Theatre, Exeter It’s Friday night and Ben knows that means only one thing- staying with Granny! There will be cabbage soup, cabbage pie and cabbage cake and Ben knows one thing for sure- it’s going to be soooooooooo boring! But what Ben doesn’t know is that Granny has a secret – and Friday nights are about to get more exciting than he could ever imagine, as he embarks on and adventure of a lifetime with his very own Gangsta Granny!...

Police appeal after Exeter break-in

Authored by News Desk
Posted: Tue, 02/02/2016 - 8:12pm

Police are appealing for witnesses following a break-in at a home at West Clyst near Pinhoe in Exeter.

The offenders smashed a rear French door to get inside the property overnight on Sunday 24 January.

They escaped with a small safe, which was empty, and left the rest of the house untouched.

Police are appealing for witnesses and would like to hear from anyone who saw any suspicious individuals or activity in the area at the time.

They are particularly keen to trace a red van with red roof rails which was seen parked at the address around 8am on Sunday 24...

Landlord confidence at all-time low

Authored by Mary Youlden
Posted: Tue, 02/02/2016 - 12:01pm

Landlords’ confidence in the buy to let (BTL) sector has collapsed to an all-time low and is now ‘worse than levels witnessed during the financial crash’, the CEO of the UK’s largest landlord association will tell leading mortgage professionals today (2nd February 2016).

Richard Lambert, Chief Executive Officer of the National Landlords Association (NLA), will tell delegates at the Building Societies Association’s (BSA) annual meet-up for mortgage professionals that confidence in landlords’ business expectations has tumbled by more than a third over the past year – down from 67 per...

Devon war memorials to be listed

Authored by Mary Youlden
Posted: Tue, 02/02/2016 - 11:10am

Devon war memorials are among hundreds to be listed over the last year through Historic England’s pledge to protect 2,500 memorials by 2018, marking the centenary of the First World War.

  • Sidmouth War Memorial, Church Lane, Sidmouth http://bit.ly/1nYOu8u
  • War Memorial in the Churchyard of the Church of St John the Evangelist, Bovey Tracey http://bit.ly/202EPtl
  • Newton Abbot War Memorial, Queen Street, Newton Abbot http://bit.ly/1nYQ6iC
  • Meavy War Memorial, West Devon http://bit.ly/1nYQD3Z

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