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EX2 Group at Building Greater Exeter work experience week

Supporting Building Greater Exeter for Work Experience Week

In July EX2 Group was proud to support Building Greater Exeter’s Work Experience Week, an inspiring initiative aimed at introducing Year 10 students to careers in the built environment.

EX2 group team member James Rayner TMIET, led an engaging hands-on solar masterclass for Year 10 students from the Ted Wragg Trust.

Building Greater Exeter brought together a strong network of industry and educational partners, to educate and inspire, including:

New Roots Workshop CIC Vistry Group Taylor Lewis Western Counties Roofing Ltd Exeter College & Exeter College...

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Rail strike ballot underway

Members of the rail union have started to vote in a ballot on both strike action and action short of a strike of all First Great Western members over the threat to jobs and safety from the introduction of the new Hitachi Inter-City trains. At the end of May the union confirmed that it had entered into dispute with First Great Western over the introduction of Super Express Trains on their franchise. The RMT were seeking the following assurances from management to resolve the matter:- To keep a safety competent Guard on every train. To keep safety critical station Despatch staff. To keep...

Top award for Gidleigh chef

Gidleigh Park’s Head Chef Allister Barsby has been named as one of the 30 recipients of the 2015 Acorn Award. Given each year to 30 of the brightest prospects aged under 30 in the hospitality industry by leading industry title The Caterer, the award is recognised as one of the most prestigious in the hospitality world. Nominated by Brownsword Hotels, the owners of Gidleigh Park, Allister joins an illustrious group of less than 900 to have ever won an Acorn Award since their inception in 1986. Seen as recognition of flair and passion in rising stars in the hospitality industry, Allister...

Celebrating volunteers at A la Ronde

To celebrate National Volunteering week, the team at A la Ronde, the quirky sixteen-sided house near Exmouth, presented three of its 200 volunteers with long service awards.

Peter Mitchell has been filling the house with music by volunteering to play piano on a regular basis, Maureen Cook has spent five years welcoming visitors and explaining about the house as a Room Guide. And Jenny George received a special certificate from the National Trust Director-General Helen Ghosh for 20 years of volunteering at A la Ronde.

Emma Kay, Volunteer Manager at A la Ronde, said: “We have...

Pigging out the natural way

Authored by Sue Cade
Posted: Sun, 06/14/2015 - 9:21am

The Rusty Pig in Ottery St Mary is renowned for using locally sourced, ethically produced ingredients, especially when it comes to pork.

This year owner Robin Rea has taken on nine Oxford Sandy & Blacks. These lucky young pigs have a happy life ahead in a natural environment on a smallholding kept by Fresh & Green, the East Devon company that supplies the majority of the Rusty Pig’s vegetables and salad ingredients.

The pigs are moved every few weeks to a fresh, good-sized plot of land. As they forage they clear and fertilise the land ready for the next crop to be...

Michelmores Run raises more than £25k

Authored by Michelmores
Posted: Sun, 06/14/2015 - 6:31am

Nearly 1,000 people took part in the 16th Michelmores Charity Run on 11 June, raising over £25,000 for Macmillan Cancer Support – and beating last year's fundraising total.

The fastest male was Owen Walpole who ran the distance in just 16 minutes and 6 seconds − followed in second place by James Denne who finished in 16 minutes and 15 seconds. Third place went to Michelmores' Nathaniel Lane who covered the course in 16 minutes and 55 seconds.

The fastest woman was Cathy Newman with a time of 18 minutes and 32 seconds, followed by Emma Sharples who ran the distance...

Dartmoor encourages play at Holne

Authored by Mary Youlden
Posted: Sat, 06/13/2015 - 10:51am

The installation of a new Moorland Play Park in the Dartmoor village of Holne was celebrated recently at a packed community event.

Previous equipment had become very dilapidated and when this small rural parish needed to find a large sum to fund a new park – they asked Dartmoor National Park if it would be able to help. The group used a small grant from the National Park to secure a substantial amount from Biffa Award, and with additional support from local Councillors, local fundraising, including a quiz night at the Church House Inn and a donation from Mike and Gill Cunniam of...

Outdoor entertainment at Drogo this summer

This summer the croquet lawn at Castle Drogo will be the backdrop for some very special outdoor theatre and music. ‘Cider with Rosie’ from the novel by Laurie Lee will be performed by the Plough Community Theatre on Saturday 27 June, 7-9pm. Set during the period that Castle Drogo was being built, at the end of the First World War, ‘Cider with Rosie’ recounts Laurie Lee’s powerful childhood memories of life in a rural village which had seen few changes in a thousand years. From being left alone in a field at the age of three, to leaving the family home as an adult, we share Laurie Lee’s...

Devon MP to chair select committee

Neil Parish, MP for Tiverton and Honiton, has been elected as Chairman of the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (EFRA) Select Committee after being the sole candidate nominated for the post.

Nominations for the election of Select Committee Chairs closed at 5pm on Wednesday 10th June. The full results of the elections for all committees will be announced on Thursday 18th June.

Neil, who is a former West Country farmer, said: "I am very pleased to have been nominated as chair of the EFRA committee. Over the past five years, I have enjoyed being a member of the Committee and...

Exeter Refugee Week 2015

The theme of Refugee Week 2015 is ‘celebrate’. Refugee Support Devon has an exciting week planned as part of a national programme of events to celebrate the contributions of refugees to the UK and to promote a better understanding about why people seek sanctuary.

“Refugee Week is a fun series of events that not only brings the plight of refugees to the public conscience, but really does help to build a culture of understanding and acceptance in the community,” says Peter Skelton, OBE, who is a volunteer at the drop-in service at Refugee Support Devon.

Events in Exeter...

Judge rejects Home Farm challenge

Exeter City Council has said it is disappointed with a High Court decision to allow a housing development to go ahead at Home Farm in Pinhoe.

Following a hearing on 8 June, a High Court judge dismissed the City Council's application to overturn a planning inspector's decision to allow an outline planning application for 120 homes at Home Farm on Church Hill, Pinhoe.

The City Council refused the application in January 2014 but following an appeal from the developer the case went to a public inquiry in September the same year, which ruled that the development could go ahead...

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