Property Search Group’s Southernhay Life campaign has won the Silver award for best Corporate and Business Communications Campaign, at the Chartered Institute of Public Relations PRide Awards in Bristol.
The award was presented to PR and marketing agency Astley Media for its work with Property Search Group’s Somerset and Plymouth offices, and legal firms in the Exeter area, to raise funds for the Fire Appeal following the blaze that destroyed the city’s Royal Clarence Hotel.
The awards cover the whole of the South of England from Kent and Sussex to Cornwall and the Isles of...
Join the Mediaeval Baebes for a Timeless Treat of Music, Dance and Theatre.
Traditionally a time for reflection and celebration, what better way to glorify the season than to join the Mediaeval Baebes for a remarkable evening of music, dance and theatre in Exeter Cathedral on Thursday 7th December.
Currently most recognised for their title track to the renowned ITV series Victoria, you will be escorted through a musical journey inspired by a time where poetry and music conspired to invoke sensory pleasure. The Mediaeval Baebes will be performing Christmas carol classics...
Exeter Philharmonic Choir brings an early note of Christmas cheer to Exeter Cathedral - a repertoire of carols performed with Exeter Brass and Devon County Junior Choir.
Over two evenings, the Choir will provide the essential soundtrack to the Christmas festivities.
Conducted by Howard Ionascu, with a retiring collection in support of Farms for City Children.
"Carols in the Cathedral" is kindly supported by sponsors Clinton Devon Estates, Everys Solicitors and Renaissance Villages.
Panto is coming back home to the Exeter Northcott Theatre with a new production by one of the country’s leading pantomime directors.
Dick Whittington is set to open next month, marking a spectacular return to the theatre’s tradition of producing its own pantomimes.
The show follows Dick as he leaves his Exeter home for the bright lights of London in search of fame and fortune, his faithful Puss by his side.
The first Northcott panto since 2009, it promises plenty of audience participation, live music, magic, mayhem and lots of laughter as Dick reaches the big city...
Exeter Chamber of Commerce & Industry has appointed three new directors to its board. Laura Seaward, audits and accounts manager at Haines Watts Chartered Accountants; Joanne Caine, director of Cathedral Appointments and Julie Hawker, joint chief executive of social enterprise Cosmic were appointed at the Chamber’s Annual General Meeting.
Laura Seaward, a qualified accountant with fourteen years’ experience across a number of the region’s most high-profile accounting firms, becomes Chamber treasurer. Ms Seaward takes on the role following the fifteen-year service of Ben de Cruz...
Speech and Language Therapists in Exeter have introduced an exciting new approach to help autistic children feel the difference.
Dawn Roberts, a Speech and Language Therapist with Virgin Care’s Devon Integrated Children’s Services, applied for ‘Feel the Difference’ funding to buy special equipment to increase the children’s level of attention and listening skills, increase social communication and improve speech and language skills. And the special equipment? A bucket filled with visually engaging toys. The new therapy approach being introduced by the Exeter and West Devon speech...
Even more employment opportunities have been made available to students in Newton Abbot as a pioneering technical institution has made its employer partner collaboration with the Royal Navy official.
Captain David Joyce from the Royal Navy attended the charter signing and will now help shape the curriculum, provide Challenge Projects and offer work experience to ensure South Devon UTC students are ready for work when they finish Year 13.
During the visit, Captain Joyce met Ian Crews, Principal, Kerry Eldershaw, Head of Engineering and Barry Seager, Employer Liaison Officer...
Essential drainage repairs will be carried out on the road from Honiton to Dunkeswell, near Combe Raleigh, starting on Monday 4 December.
A culvert on the route has collapsed and needs replacement. The road will be closed for a maximum of five days while work is carried out. A signed diversion will be in place via the A30, Monkton, Upottery and Smeatharpe and vice versa. Councillor Stuart Hughes, Devon County Council Cabinet Member for Highway Management, said: “It’s essential this culvert is replaced for the safety of people using the road and we're investing in ensuring it is...
The dementia research charity BRACE and Kirby Laing Foundation have together awarded more than £190,000 to the University of Exeter Medical School to support cutting-edge genomic research to better understand the causes of dementia
Kirby Laing has provided £90,000 of funding to support a three-year PhD post in the Complex Disease Epigenetics Group within the Medical School’s world-leading research team that investigates how the way genes are activated influences disease.
Previously, the team has been involved in identifying a number of regions of the genome that are altered...
