Measures aimed at softening the impact of proposed changes to the amount the authority pays community groups to compost, will be recommended to Devon County Council’s Cabinet.
A consultation held last year included proposals to reduce the discretionary community composting credit rate, the amount per tonne the authority pays to local community groups, from £58 to £25.
The proposed change, which would start from April 2017, aimed to bring the rate paid to the county’s 25 voluntary composting groups broadly into line with the new contract rate offered by DCC’s new contractor...
A leading local law firm that has introduced office choirs and gives its staff an equal share of its profits has been ranked number 16 in the influential Sunday Times list of the top 100 mid-sized firms to work for. The firm was also the highest ranked solicitors in the country. At a glittering awards ceremony in London on Thursday, 23 February 2017 Stephens Scown LLP, was placed 16. This is the third consecutive year that the firm has ranked in the mid-sized business category of the Sunday Times 100 Best Companies to Work For. The announcement was made at an event at Battersea Evolution...
Your guide to what’s on in and around Exeter this weekend (24-26 February).
THEATRE
Comedy Grove Friday, Barnfield Theatre, Exeter Live stand-up comedy with MC Cerys Nelmes, Wayne the Weird, President Obonjo and headliner Nick Revell. 8pm, tickets £10. www.barnfieldtheatre.org.uk
The Episode Friday & Saturday, Bike Shed Theatre, Exeter An intimate new play about fashion, power and cataclysmic disaster. It’s the final season of a popular reality TV show. Your make up is on, the lights are bright and the camera is rolling… So don’t forget to smize. In a world...
EXETER City Council has revealed that it is putting plans to close Exeter Bus Station temporarily on hold.
The council said it needs more time before appointing contractors to create its part of a major new redevelopment at the bus station site.
It had planned to start construction on the state-of-the-art new leisure complex St Sidwell’s Point, and a new Exeter Bus Station, at the end of March. Completion was due in December 2018.
But due to the nature of the tender returns submitted by contractors bidding for the contract, the council has announced that it needs...
Exeter Phoenix and Blind Ditch are offering two £1,000 commissions to develop itinerant new work for new project Street LAB, a micro-festival of live art busking hitting the streets of the city during Art Week Exeter (13 – 21 May 2017).
The festival organisers are looking for entertaining and politically engaged concepts that bring audiences in public sites into lively encounters with contemporary live art practice with a musical twist. Street music is at the heart of historical debates around taste, place and disruption; often described as being democratic and open to anyone,...
Exeter businesses Slingshot Six Ltd, Wellity and Speedy Freight Exeter have made it to the final of Devon’s Fast Track to Growth Programme.
Fifteen companies across the county have been selected from over 60 entries to the free business support programme backed by Devon County Council, to help them develop their plans for growth in 2017. One, following a pitch event at Exeter Innovation Centre, will win £20,000 worth of on-going business support for the rest of the year.
The finalists include Exeter based Wi-Fi specialists Slingshot Six Ltd, fitness tracker social media...
The next generation of construction specialists studying at Exeter College had a behind-the-scenes tour of an innovative low energy building project.
Seventeen first-year students studying for their Construction and the Built Environment BTEC Level 3 Subsidiary Diploma visited the development next to Rennes House, Whipton, in Exeter. The project is being built on behalf of Exeter City Council.
Contractors C G Fry and Son Ltd and architects Gale & Snowden Architects gave a tour of the project and gave insights into its modern Passivhaus or ‘Passive House’ design and...
Exeter Airport has notched up its fourth successive year of growth in 2016 with passenger numbers up to 847,372.
Latest CAA figures show that 25,583 more passengers used Exeter last year, up 3% on the year before. The figures include the airport’s best August in eight years, when more than 100,000 people passed through the terminal.
But the strongest growth was in November and December, up 11% and 13% respectively on the back of new winter sun flights to Alicante and Malaga in Spain, which started at the end of October.
