Francis Clark’s annual Finance in the South West event, now in its 4th year running, will be taking place on Tuesday 23rd February from 08:00 to 14:00 at Exeter Racecourse. The
Seminar brings together specialists representing funding and business support available to businesses in the Heart of the South West LEP area.
This year the keynote speaker will be Radio 4 business and economics journalist Jonty Bloom.
Research has indicated that there is a significant funding gap between funding available from traditional sources of funding and actual business requirements...
Communities across Devon are being called on to vote for this year’s recycling heroes.
The fourth Recycle Devon Thank You Awards is being held next month, and this year residents can vote online.
Vote for your favourite shortlisted candidate at: http://www.recycledevon.org/have-your-vote up until 8 February.
This year there have been 61 nominations in categories Your Recycling Hero, School Recycling Hero, Community Group recycling hero, Collection Crew/Operative, Recycling Centre Operative staff and Small Business Champion.
A new study from the online journal Heart suggests a link between the tendency to become easily stressed in adolescents and a heightened risk of developing high blood pressure in later life.
The research looked at more than 1.5 million 18-year-old men with normal blood pressure, who had been conscripted to the army in Sweden between 1969 and 1997 until the end of 2012 and were assessed for their levels of stress resilience.
At the end of the study, those who were more prone to stress a at the age of 18 were associated with a heightened risk of high blood pressure.
Teignbridge District Council has launched a new campaign ‘Don’t be a Dumper’ that aims to get people to pick up after their pooch and reduce the amount of dog mess that is left on the sands and seafront areas of local resorts.
Throughout this week (Monday February 1 to Friday February 5) Teignbridge’s resorts staff will be using glow in the dark temporary spray paint to mark dog mess on the promenade areas. Dog wardens will be out in force and will fine anyone who is seen not picking up. On Friday Feb 5 there will be a big clear up to remove what’s been left behind.
Five local jobseekers have successfully completed an intensive employability training course with Prospects and received recognition from local MP, Ben Bradshaw. The course equipped them with the skills needed to get a job, as well improving their English and maths functional skills. Ben Bradshaw MP visited the training and presented the five successful participants with their completion certificates and a brand new 7” tablet computer.
Ben spent time getting to know all of the participants on the course and hearing about how they came to join the Work Programme. He also spoke to...
BBC Radio 1’s Nick Grimshaw this morning announced that Coldplay, Ellie Goulding, Chase and Status, Bring Me the Horizon and Craig David will perform at Radio 1’s Big Weekend 2016.
The news was announced on Nick’s Radio 1 Breakfast Show, with the DJ also revealing that Radio 1’s Big Weekend - the station’s flagship live music event - will be held in Exeter on 28th and 29th May.
Hosted by Radio 1 DJs, Radio 1’s Big Weekend is Europe’s largest free ticketed festival and has an unrivalled reputation for attracting live performances from some of the biggest and newest UK and...
More than 50 people turned out on Saturday to plant a community orchard in Cowick Barton Fields.
Families, local residents and tree enthusiasts all braved the mud and cold wind with shovels, wheelbarrows and 15 native, locally grown trees in hand.
The orchard is part of a project funded by Alcoa that has seen Active Devon team up with Exeter City Council to create an activity trail across Cowick Barton Fields.
This means that, rather than being a conventionally shaped orchard, the trees – including pear, mulberry, damson and cherry – run in a line that will allow...
Team up and test your sporting, music and general knowledge in The Big Chiefs Quiz at Sandy Park on Wednesday, March 9th.
The quiz will be set and hosted by the Chiefs’ official Away-Day Quiz Master, Haydn Thomas, and some of the Exeter Chiefs squad will be on hand to offer assistance to teams.
Teams should be of six and team entry will cost £60, which will include food.
The winning team will get 6 tickets to Exeter Chiefs v Worcester Warriors.
To enter your team in the Quiz, please go to www.sandypark.co.uk/book
People in Exeter will see some changes to their local Citizens Advice office.
The Exeter office will be introducing its new look over the next three months, as well as a new logo, the organisation has dropped the word bureau from its name. It will now be known as Citizens Advice Exeter.
Steve Barriball, chief executive of Citizens Advice Exeter, said: "When it came to refreshing our brand, we found that a lot of people don’t really know who we are, or what we do. Some people think we’re part of Government – and almost everyone thinks we’re old fashioned.
A driving instructor who founded Devon Freewheelers, a team of 50 volunteer motorcycle riders who deliver blood and life-saving medical supplies in emergencies has been named a Point of Light by Prime Minister David Cameron.
The Devon Freewheelers work with local hospitals in the county for the emergency transport of blood, human tissues for transplant service, urgent medications, donor breast milk and any urgent medical equipment that can be transported by motorcycle.
The entire service is provided completely free of charge and the charity receives no payment or funding...
