The Stagecoach transport group has donated £10,000 to help relief efforts in the Philippines.
The transport group has made the donation to the Philippines Typhoon Appeal run by the Disasters Emergency Committee.
Stagecoach has also agreed to match up to £40,000 of funding raised by its employees.
The group employs 35,000 bus and rail employees in both the UK and North America.
Stagecoach Group Chairman Sir Brian Souter said: “The scale of the human tragedy caused by this disaster has touched all of our hearts and everyone wants to respond to the tremendous...
Five Police and Crime Commisioners, including Devon and Cornwall PCC Tony Hogg have sent letters to Policing Minister Damian Green over potential further cuts to police funding.
PCCs from the South West have come together to voice their concerns on the dangers of further cutting police budgets which would see a reduction to policing numbers. In the letter from from the PCCs they write: “In addition to grant reductions under the austerity programme we have recently faced a number of additional burdens. “These include the direct imposition of higher costs in relation to national...
Stagecoach South West is helping to support the Royal British Legion's 2013 Poppy Appeal which honours and remembers service personnel who have lost their lives in the line of duty.
The local transport operator is providing poppies for all their staff that choose to wear them with a donation made to the Royal British Legion. It has also donated advertising space inside its buses to help promote the appeal.
Michael Watson, Managing Director of Stagecoach South West, commented “I’m proud to say that once again Stagecoach will be supporting the poppy appeal. We have staff at...
A woman from Woodbury near Exeter who lost her husband to a brain tumour one year ago has visited local coffee shop Coffee#1 in Princesshay Shopping Centre, Exeter, to say a big thank you to staff who are currently helping raise funds for Hammer Out, the South West’s only brain tumour charity, through the sale of charity gingerbread men.
From August 4 to November 2, each time a Gingerbread man is sold for £1 in Exeter’s Coffee#1 shop or any of the award-winning coffee chain’s 34 other shops in the South West and South Wales, a 50p donation will be made to Hammer Out, which supports...
The Met Office has issued weather warnings for the South West as heavy rain and very strong winds are forecast for the region with the risk of possible localised flooding.
Light rain on Saturday during the day will be followed by heavier downpours on Saturday and Sunday evenings, with increasingly strong winds into Monday which could see stormy conditions bringing the risk of possible damage to trees and buildings.
Yellow warnings for rain and potential flooding have been issued for Friday and Sunday; a more serious amber warning for rain, high winds and flooding has been...
Champion jockey AP McCoy has said he is ‘delighted’ that Exeter Racecourse, where he rode his first ever winner on English soil in 1994, has renamed one of its bars AP’s, which he officially opened at a race meeting there on Tuesday.
The 18-times champion jockey and 2010 Sports Personality of the Year winner booted home Chickabiddy, who was trained locally on Exmoor by Gordon Edwards, to win some 19 years ago on September 7. The champion is now 20 winners away (correct Oct 24) from achieving a record breaking 4,000 winners under Rules.
In celebration of being awarded flagship status, the Oasis store in Exeter's Princesshay hosted a jaunty vintage-style 'tea' party this evening (Thursday 24 October).
The honour, which is only bestowed on a handful of stores such as Bristol Cribbs Causeway, is testament to the Exeter store's successful management team and will mean that customers will have access to a greatly increased range of Oasis products, including day and evening wear, shoes, jewellery and accessories. Feature window displays will be designed and created for the store by a team of specialist visual...
Jean-Phillippe Bidart, head chef at the Millbrook Inn in South Pool, will this Saturday be demonstrating how to cook an assiette of rose veal at the Dartmouth Food Festival. JP, as he is known, will be on the festival stage in Royal Avenue Gardens at 11am on Saturday, October 26 – below he shares his recipes.
Rose veal, sourced from Joyce and Steve Greenslade’s Pitmans Farm near Cullompton, is a popular choice on the menu. JP said: “It is a very good earthy meat and very underrated. It’s not too fatty, its healthy and its easy to cook and people love it, once they’ve tried it. And...
Devon is buzzing with talented, award-winning chefs, many of whom are making Dartmouth Food Festival (Friday 25 – Sunday 27 October) their food and drink festival of choice. This year the festival is delighted to be showcasing even more high profile local chefs than ever before.
Commenting on behalf of Dartmouth Food Festival, chairman David Jones says: “Devon has so many hugely gifted chefs and it’s fantastic to see such a vast selection of them demonstrating their culinary skills at the festival.”
David continues: “We’re exceptionally lucky to have such an exciting and...
This year's Christmas Market in Exeter will run from Thursday 21 November until Thursday 19 December, on Cathedral Green. The Christmas lights ceremony will also take place on 21 November from 4pm-8pm, with Rob Baxter, Exeter Chiefs' Head Coach; Paul Tisdale, Manager of Exeter City Football Club and members of the Lympstone Military Wives Choir taking centre stage to jointly switch on the city’s Christmas lights during the event at 6.30pm.
Visitors will be treated to a festive programme of entertainment throughout the event. The Princesshay stage will light up with musical acts...
