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Chandos Deli celebrates Sandwich Designer of the Year award

Asher Simpson of Chandos Deli, Princesshay has won the ‘Roast Sesame & Chilli Sauce’ category at the grand final of the Sandwich Designer of the Year awards.

The best sandwich designers in the UK battled it out in the finals to be crowned British Sandwich Designer of the Year 2015. 29 of the UK’s finest sandwich designers had won through from five regional heats in the British Sandwich Association’s flagship competition.

The Sandwich Designer of the Year is a quest to find the UK’s most innovative sandwich designers. There were six categories, all of whom produced a...

It's festival time at Cygnet Theatre

Authored by Mary Youlden
Posted: Thu, 05/28/2015 - 12:33pm

It’s the first week in June and its Festival time at Cygnet Theatre!

Cygnet is hosting seven visiting companies, giving thirteen performances spread across the first week of June between 1st and 6th.

All the companies have local connections and all seven are bringing brand new plays.

Festival@Cygnet kicks off with a fun exploration of festival life in the 70’s, from Substance & Shadow, whose Tribes & Tribulations is a humorous and poetic take on the mud, crowds, bands and junkies of free festivals.

The variety of subject and configurations of the...

Solar schools step up to the climate change challenge

Authored by News Desk
Posted: Thu, 05/28/2015 - 10:47am

Now in its fourth year, 10:10’s Solar Schools project has worked with a network of 65 schools across the country, raising nearly half a million pounds and installing over 830 solar panels.

Solar Schools helps schools raise money to put solar panels on their roofs. It offers schools a way to boost budgets, cut carbon and forge new bonds with their local community. With an extension of the project launched this month, it’s now even easier for schools to get involved.

Depending on the size of the roof and the number of panels installed, Solar Schools could save an average of £...

New artists join Devon Open Studios

Authored by Mary Youlden
Posted: Thu, 05/28/2015 - 10:15am

Devon is known for its exceptionally lovely landscape as well as its vibrant artistic community, one of the largest of any county in Britain.

For 16 days in September many of those artists will be opening their studios to the public.

Devon’s varied natural beauty, fine pubs, cafes, farm shops and seaside attractions make Devon Open Studios’ free full colour event guide a handbook for a blissful day out venturing down hidden lanes to bucolic villages, across moorland to stop in stannary towns or over cliffs to find artists by the sea.

Only at Devon Open Studios can...

Boardroom biscuit etiquette revealed

Authored by News Desk
Posted: Thu, 05/28/2015 - 10:11am

If you want to strike success in a business meeting- offer a plate of shortbread, new research reveals.

A study of 2,000 business workers found one in four say they’re more inclined to close a deal in a meeting because of the biscuits provided, with shortbread, chocolate bourbons and flapjacks all likely to win a favourable reaction.

In fact, having the right selection of snacks was deemed more crucial to meeting success than making good small talk beforehand, the study found.

And while it's easy to take the biscuit, there are unwritten rules- waiting for the...

Devon law firm's app wins award

A leading Devon law firm has scooped a national award at the inaugural Legal Innovation Awards for its ground-breaking iPhone App for clients.

Stephens Scown LLP launched its “My Lawyer” App in November 2014 as a way of allowing clients to keep track of their cases quickly and easily while they were on the move. The App allows clients to view documents, keep up to date with costs, pay bills online and diarise key dates.

Stephens Scown won the Client Management Innovation category of the Legal Innovation Awards beating a number of larger national law firms including Pinsent...

Come Dine With Me Couples comes to Exeter

Authored by Newshound
Posted: Thu, 05/28/2015 - 5:38am

Do you and your partner host the best dinner parties in town?

Come Dine With Me are looking for the perfect partnership to create the recipe for success!

If you’re over 18 and have the combined skills to produce an amazing dinner party… Come Dine With Me want to hear from you.

Three couples. Three nights. Three dinner parties. And a £1,000 cash prize.

If you or any couples you know would like to take part contact Come Dine With Me with your names, ages and numbers now.

Email: comedinewithme@itv.com or call 08712 003 939.

Callers from a BT...

Show debut for green-fingered Nicola

Homebase Garden Academy student, Nicola Oakey, from Exeter, is about to build her first RHS Show garden at BBC Gardener’s World Live (11 - 14 June). Nicola, who started the Academy in September 2014, successfully submitted a design for the ‘Beautiful Borders’ category of the show. The design had to be inspired by the ‘Industrial Heritage of the West Midlands’, so Nicola took this opportunity to celebrate the amazing pottery industry that has flourished in the area, notably Spode and Wedgewood. “I can’t wait to bring my design to life”, said Nicola. “The Garden Academy visits Barnsdale...

B2B Business Breakfast

Event Date: 
10/07/2015 - 8:15am to 10:00am
Venue: 
Sandy Park, Exeter

Digital Marketer Alastair Banks, Director of Optix Solutions, will be the guest speaker at July's Networking Breakfast.

Alastair, who co-founded Optix Solutions in 1999 with an Exeter University course-mate, will be speaking about 'The Surprising Similarities between Rugby and Digital Marketing'.

The morning will begin with networking from 8.15am followed by a full English breakfast at 8.30am. Our speaker will commence at 9.00am and the morning will finish at approximately 9.45am.

Tickets for this event cost £22 and can be purchased by contacting events@sandypark.co...

South West Coast Path Association and South West Water team up at County Show

Authored by News Desk
Posted: Wed, 05/27/2015 - 4:22pm

Following their joint presence at last week’s Devon County Show, the South West Coast Path Association and South West Water announce they will be working together to help protect the South West Coast Path.

The South West Coast Path attracts 8.6 million visitors a year and contributes £436m to the local economy, making it one of the most popular walking routes in the country. Alongside the quality of the Path itself, it is the views and natural environment that people come to enjoy when visiting the coast. South West Water has been working hard to help clean up our coastal waters,...

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