The first litter of puppies bred in-house by Devon and Cornwall Police will meet their new puppy walkers on Thursday 25 July.
A puppy walker takes a puppy to live with them for 12 to 18 months for socialising and early training, in preparation for the puppy entering its police training. Each puppy has undertaken a short series of tests to find out if they were suitable for police dog training and we are delighted to announce that all seven puppies have passed their suitability tests with flying colours. All seven puppies have now been named.
Twenty companies and apprentices will represent the wealth of Apprenticeship talent across the South West after being short-listed for the regional heat of the prestigious National Apprenticeship Awards 2013.
Exeter’s own Donna Yarwood is just one of the apprentices taking part. She has been shortlisted for Higher Apprentice of the Year.
The awards, which are now in their 10th year, celebrate the work of the country’s most talented apprentices and apprenticeship employers. An awards ceremony is to be held at the Holiday Inn in Taunton on the 18th September to announce the...
Shortlisted from 105 entries, an artwork developed for an exhibition at RAMM has won an international linocut prize.
Exeter-based artist Volkhardt Müller adapted 12 little plastic TVs with musical clockwork to play finely carved miniature lino cuts on a perpetual roll for the Witness Box display in the exhibition, Any High Street. More of Volkhardt’s work can be seen in the current display at RAMM by Devon-based artist collective Blind Ditch: This City’s Centre.
Volkhardt is thrilled that the 12 scenes of contemporary Exeter have gained international recognition “I was...
Fire crews from Exmouth have been called to two separate incidents in the last few days involving disposable barbecues being placed in plastic bins when they were still hot.
In the early hours of 22 July, crews were called to Exmouth Cricket Club, Queens Drive, after reports of a fire on the outside of the building. The fire damaged part of the tea rooms and crews were able to stop the fire spreading further into the building.
Investigations found that a disposable barbecue had been placed in a bin while still hot and, over a period of time, had burnt through the bin and...
Topsham-based commercial photographer and published poet, Meia Allegranza, is launching a Poetography Exhibition on 1 August 2013 in Topsham’s The Café.
The exhibition, called “Poetography for the All Generations”, will showcase Meia’s two passions, photography and poetry, as she brings together 14 of her favourite Photos and poems.
The exhibition, which will be free to attend, will run from 1-31 August during The Café’s opening hours 10am–4.30pm.
This is Meia’s first solo exhibition, and has been inspired by her life, news events, the sights and sounds of Devon,...
Teignbridge’s army of waste teams are getting out and about to help ensure beaches, parks and beauty spots are free from summer rubbish – but they are urging residents and visitors to help them out.
The council is providing its busy resorts with extra litter and wheelie bins and is also arranging for extra street cleans to get underway but hopes locals, holidaymakers and businesses to help ‘keep it clean’ by disposing of rubbish safely or taking it home with them.
Waste and cleansing teams are working hard to make sure all the additional litter from people using public...
Devon project ‘The Devon Active Villages’ are urging locals to give them their support and help them win this year’s National Lottery Awards. The Devon Active Villages project, by Active Devon, is a finalist in this year’s award’s Sport category; one of seven categories that will recognise the UK’s favourite Lottery-funded projects.
The Devon Active Villages works with people to discover what sports they enjoy, and once they have gained this information they try to arrange for these sports to take place in local communities and villages. So far the group has helped around 10,000...
How would you like to drive a car such as a Fiat 500, pay no tax, no fuel, and never have to pay out for an MOT?
If the above sounds of interest to you then Co-Cars, the pay as you go car service, may be for you. The scheme, which has been praised by Devon County Council, offers its members the opportunity to hire a vehicle for however long they require, with the hire being the only cost.
All of Co-Cars' vehicles are clean and have full insurance, tax and MOT. Any fuel that needs to be purchased during the hire can be purchased using a fuel card.
Devon finalists in NatWest Venus Awards, dubbed ‘The Working Women’s Oscars’, have been treated to afternoon tea at the luxurious Magdalen Chapter Hotel in Exeter. The event, which was also attended by several members of the local media, was held to give to give the finalists an opportunity to meet each other and their sponsors.
The awards were launched in March and the finalists where whittled down, by the judges and in some cases, public vote, from thousands of nominations to just 42 finalists – 12 of whom will be announced as winners at the grand awards ceremony at Exeter...
Exeter Cathedral has created a very special baby book for the people of Devon to sign to congratulate Their Royal Highnesses, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, on the safe arrival of their baby son.
The baby book is available for people to sign from Tuesday morning, in an area just inside the Cathedral, from 9am to 4.45pm every day for the next two weeks. Once it has been signed, it will be bound in burgundy leather and will then be sent as an offering from Exeter Cathedral and the county of Devon to the Royal couple.
The book has been created for the Cathedral by Exeter...
