Neil Parish, MP for Tiverton and Honiton, attended an event at the House of Commons highlighting the new jobs and extra contribution to public finances that would be generated by scrapping the super tax on wine and spirits.
Organised by the Wine and Spirit Trade Association, the event helped publicise independent research by Ernst & Young, which has found that 6000 new jobs would be created and an extra £230 million generated for the public finances if the super tax were scrapped in the March Budget.
The Wine and Spirit Trade Association, the Scotch Whisky Association...
Exeter Community Arts Project is searching for 120 people aged from 11 to 99 to make and perform The Day We Played Brazil, the new musical play which is set to be the biggest cultural event in Exeter for many years.
Central to the story are the 1914 Exeter City football team so we are calling all young men out there who’d like to have a go at singing and dancing to come along and get involved.
To complete the cast, there are performing roles for men and women, boys and girls aged over 11 to play the host of characters involved in telling this epic tale of Exeter, football...
Three lapdancers and their manager have been cleared of kidnapping a Gloucestershire club boss. Curtis Woodman alleged the four women and two men forced him into a car and robbed him in September 2012. Dancers Mandy Cool, Rachel Goodchild and Stephanie Pye, and manager Charlotte Devaney, had worked for him during the Cheltenham Hunt Festival. Brothers Robert Morris, 27, and Alexander Morris, 23, were also cleared of kidnap. During the trial DJ and Manager Ms Devany told Bristol Crown Court Mr Woodman had invented the kidnap to avoid paying them £42,000. The £42,000 sum was allegedly taken...
Batten down the hatches yet again - another storm is heading our way this weekend.
This January has been the wettest for 100 years and looks set to end as it started.
A further area of heavy rain and strong to gale force winds will spread eastwards across the UK today (Friday) bringing around 40 mm on some high ground in the South West of England.
The Met Office recently added a severe ice warning to their warnings of wind and rain trhough the weekend.
Winds will increase tomorrow, with gusts of up to 50 to 60 mph, and perhaps to around 70 mph in exposed...
It was always going to be the case that the role of police and crime commissioner would develop quickly – it had to.
So whereas 2013 set a necessary but probably unsustainable pace my restructured OPCC team is now better configured to face the challenges ahead and allows me to focus on key areas such as lobbying Government and on issues that matter most to us who are a long way away from the seat of power.
For the last few weeks we have been looking at the budget for the next four years as we try and balance the books in very difficult times.
A rare, warm water Kemp’s Ridley turtle has washed up on Woolacombe Beach, North Devon.
The small dead turtle was reported to the Marine Conservation Society (MCS) on Tuesday 28 January.
Just 30cm in length, the creature is not the first Kemp’s ridley to be washed up along the UK coastline this winter. According to Dr Peter Richardson, MCS Biodiversity Programme Manager: "Two weeks ago, another Kemp’s ridley was discovered on a beach in Carmarthenshire by a woman out walking her dogs. In December, a Kemp’s ridley washed up alive in South West Wales but died shortly after....
Police seeking a man connected to the murder of 72-year-old David Alderson in Falmouth believe he may be in Devon.
Devon and Cornwall police’s Crime Investigation Team are urgently seeking to trace Kevin Cooper, 33, from Redruth, who is wanted in connection with Mr Alderson’s death.
The last believed sighting of Kevin Cooper was in the Mutley Plain area of Plymouth during the early hours of Tuesday 28th January.
Officers are conducting active enquires in Plymouth in an attempt to locate and arrest him.
Mr Cooper (pictured) is described as white, 6ft 3ins,...
Spend the money on whatever you want. Just keep within the law. ‘This deceptively simple piece is definitely on the money. It turns conversation into urgent, playful theatre.’ Lyn Gardner, THE GUARDIAN
The Money returns to Exeter for one night only. The event, created by Kaleider, launched last November at Exeter’s Guildhall and its unique premise caused quite a stir. The audience, or players, can dictate much of the action meaning the outcome can be completely different each night.
The Devon Winter Ability Games took place at the Plymouth Life Centre on the 24th January and has been hailed as a great success.
Over 400 young people with disabilities from 30 schools across Devon attended the event taking part in a range of events including football, table cricket and tennis. There were also taster sessions in Archery, Boccia and Tri Golf.
The Devon Winter Ability Games is part of a programme of five Countywide Sainsbury’s School Games festivals in Devon and is delivered by Active Devon on behalf of the Devon School Games local organising committee. On...
Spend the money on whatever you want. Just keep within the law.
The Money returns to Exeter for one night only.
The event, created by Kaleider, launched last November at Exeter’s Guildhall and its unique premise caused quite a stir. The audience, or players, can dictate much of the action meaning the outcome can be completely different each night.
To participate, players either become a Benefactor donating at least £10, or a Silent Witness watching as a group of Benefactors decide how to spend their collective money. Silent Witnesses can buy their way in if they...
