Stagecoach South West is urging Exeter residents to ‘shop local’ and support independent stores on ‘Small Business Saturday’, today.
The bus company donated 200 Exeter Dayrider tickets – dated for 6th December only - to ‘Exeter Trails’, a collection of independent businesses across the city. Customers have been snapping them up across the week ready to enjoy a day of free, unlimited travel on the big day.
Exeter Trails businesses have tweeting about the offer all week, asking customers to visit the relevant shop and either quote a tweet or answer a ‘weird and wonderful’...
Long-established Crediton estate agency, Helmores, believes that the recent changes to Stamp Duty charges, announced in the Chancellor of the Exchequer’s Autumn Statement on 3 December and in effect now, is a much fairer system for home buyers.
Under the new rules, George Osborne has said that 98% of homeowners in England and Wales will pay less Stamp Duty as of midnight on 3 December, meaning that home buyers could save an average of £4,500 on stamp duty (for a property costing £275,000), which bring down the cost of buying a property for all but the highest valued properties....
Leading equity crowdfunding platform, Crowdcube, has been chosen as one of only six competitively selected partners by the London Co-Investment Fund (LCIF) and the only crowdfunding platform to be on the list of VCs, angels and other investors.
Established by Funding London and Capital Enterprise, the LCIF is a new Government-backed fund designed to address the funding gap in London faced by tech start-ups, and will see £25m invested in 156 seed stage companies within the Technology, Digital and Science sectors over the next three years. The £25m is being contributed by the Mayor...
If you are keen on TV DIY shows, have spent time in Hospital or work for The NHS or Emergency Services around the world, you may be familiar with the brand name Packexe® stamped on safety protection films and wraps.
The Packexe® range of products is the brainchild of ebullient inventor and entrepreneur, Andrew Orchard, who created the first Packexe® film product back in 1989.
Today, Packexe®, based in Exeter, UK, exports to over 50 countries worldwide including Germany, Japan and Hong Kong, bearing a high calibre and extremely well respected CV and product range.
A ground breaking research project by the GW4 Alliance aims to clean up water from a Cornish tin mine, using algae to harvest the precious heavy metals and produce biofuel at the same time.
GW4 brings together the South West and Wales’ four leading, research-intensive universities: Bath, Bristol, Cardiff and Exeter.
Researchers from all four universities, in collaboration with Plymouth Marine Laboratory (PML) are now working with the Coal Authority and Veolia to take untreated mine water samples from Wheal Jane tin mine in Cornwall into the laboratory and grow algae in them...
Hospiscare nurses and doctors have given hope to a dying Exeter man who is now looking forward to spending a very special Christmas with his new found family.
Richard Potts, 66, arrived 20 days ago at the city hospice two stone underweight and hallucinating because he was not eating nor taking his medication properly. But he is leaving tomorrow (Friday) with a spring in his step and is looking forward to spending time with the daughter he didn’t know existed until four years ago when he received a “bolt out of the blue” letter from her asking to get together.
Parents from Witheridge took part in a ‘budget bake off’ at Action for Children’s Oakmoor Children's Centre in Witheridge, Tiverton.
The session was the culmination of a Money Skills course, part of a national programme run by Barclays in partnership with charity Action for Children, which helps families and young people with budgeting and finance.
While the parents designed, baked and decorated biscuits and cakes, Action for Children employees ran through Money Skills ideas highlighting the benefits of home-prepared cooking over ready meals, how to shop for the best value...
Staff at Go Ape throughout the UK, including Haldon Forest near Exeter, went bananas to support Teenage Cancer Trust, raising a grand total of £60,000 for the charity.
Go Ape is the UK’s leading forest adventure and staff from the 28 sites across the country devised the ‘Big Banana Relay’ to raise much-needed funds for the charity. The relay consisted of a ‘Big Banana’ being transported a total of 1,823 miles across the UK with the Go Ape gorillas using the quirkiest forms of travel possible.
The relay got underway at Leeds Castle in June and the ‘Big Banana’ travelled to...
Eighteen-year-old entrepreneur, Hannah White, has opened her first beauty salon based on Marsh Barton Trading Estate in Exeter.
Hannah, who grew up in Alphington and attended local schools Bowhill Primary School and St James High School, trained as a beautician at Exeter College and went on to work at several Exeter based salons before making the brave decision to follow her dreams and go it alone.
Hannah opened her tanning and beauty salon, The Beauty Lounge, on AlphinBrook Road last month and has had a constant stream of customers already.
