People living in St James, Exeter, have taken another step towards gaining a more hands-on role in the planning of their neighbourhood.
The Exeter St James Neighbourhood Plan examiner’s report was received on 15 February and is only the second in the country to reach this stage. The good news for the St James Forum and for Exeter City Council is that the report concludes, with a few minor modifications, the Plan should now proceed to a referendum.
Planning Minister Nick Boles, said: "This is a big milestone for both neighbourhood planning and Exeter. The city is leading the...
Princesshay has introduced Braille menus into its restaurants and cafes to show support for Princesshay’s new charity of the year for 2013, WESC Foundation: The specialist centre for visual impairment.
The new initiative aims to help Princesshay restaurants alleviate the issues faced by blind or partially sighted people when choosing what to order.
WESC Foundation, located on Topsham Road provides specialist care, education and therapy to children and young people with visual impairment and complex needs. More than 100 children and young people attend WESC daily, weekly or...
The Exeter Royal Academy for Deaf Education has responded to the news that one of its catering suppliers, Sodexo, has found traces of horse meat in one of its frozen beef products, by saying: "Of the 80 products recalled as a precaution by Sodexo, the Deaf Academy only uses four, and we have immediately removed them from our kitchens.
"The Academy is committed to the highest standards of health and safety for our students and we were awarded the best possible food hygiene rating by Exeter City Council last year. The majority of our food is cooked on site, from scratch, using fresh...
Gregory Distribution (Holdings) Ltd, the parent company of Gregory Distribution Ltd, has purchased Philson Haulage Ltd from its owners, Phil and Sonia Dickinson for an undisclosed sum.
Philson Haulage is a southern-based transport and distribution business with a turnover of around £7 million and employs 56 people at its base in Chichester. It was founded in 1995 by Phil and Sonia and has successfully developed a strong reputation for service and reliability within the fresh produce distribution sector during the past 17 years.
Exeter-based Girling Jones (Recruitment Company) is the latest business to register a team of 6 employees to take part in a 200 mile cycle challenge for Children's Hospice South West.
Ride for Precious Lives takes place over three days in June and is the charity's leading cycling challenge for 2013. For more details of the event and how to register visit www.chsw.org.uk/rfpl .
The team behind The Exeter Daily are poised to launch their first franchise. After just five months of trading in Exeter, The Daily UK, is to expand into Plymouth next month. Meanwhile, talks are at an advanced stage in a number of other areas across the UK.
The Daily model was created by Marc Astley, who stood down as editor of the Express & Echo in Exeter shortly after it turned from a daily to weekly. And he said his user-generated model had captured the imaginations of a new generation of news consumer.
Mr Astley added: “Everything we are doing now is six to 12...
Devon songstress Joss Stone has told how soldiers ushered fans out of a gig as she was playing in China.
Joss, who's mother owns a club in Exeter, told Jonathan Ross how the bizarre incident happened when she was performing at a festival in Beijing. She said she was the last act on stage but before her set ended the military began to clear the venue.
Joss explained: "It was a bit mad actually... I think they decided it was time everyone should leave and there must have been about 200 of them, maybe more lining all of the audience… and they were slowly pushing all of the...
If you’re waiting for your customers to come to you with their next order you’ve got a fundamental problem – you’re taking part in the Waiting Game. It was Franklin Delano Roosevelt that said “The Only Thing We Have To Fear Is Fear Itself” and nothing is truer in business than this.
Your existing customer base can hold hidden treasures in terms of extra business. How proactive are you at going after it? Do you think ‘If I contact them then I run the risk of hassling them and then they won’t use me anymore’ – If this is your mindset then think again.
Police are appealing for information following a burglary at a house in Cullompton, which took place between 6.15pm and 10.15pm on Saturday, 16 February 2013.
The property was entered and numerous items stolen, including a pair of drop earrings worth £900, a Sharp video camcorder, valued at £200, a red Samsung digital camera, worth £200 and an HP Photosmart Series 420 camera, valued at £179.
Anyone with information is asked to contact the Police on 101 or Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111, quoting refrence KU/13/139.
The British Dietetic Association (BDA) is supporting a new report from Sustain (the alliance for better food and farming), calling for better hospital food with the introduction of hospital food standards (in England).
The BDA, founded in 1936, is the professional association for registered dietitians in the UK. It is the nation's largest organisation of food and nutrition professionals with over 7,000 members. The BDA is also an active trade union.
As part of its Better Hospital Food campaign, the Sustain report called Twenty Years of Hospital Food Failure found that...
