Companies across Devon are being offered the chance to take part in the county’s first Fast Track to Growth Programme to help them develop and implement plans for growth in 2016 – for free.
They will receive on-going advice from a range of specialists, and take part in workshops to develop their growth plans ready to then implement. All shortlisted applicants will also have the chance to pitch to a panel of judges, with one company securing a year’s worth of free financial strategy, marketing and PR support, worth £15,000.
For the third year running The Decidedly Different Vintage Wedding Fair at Exeter Castle will be held across two days – a beautiful wedding weekend
Saturday 16th & Sunday 17th January 11am-4pm.
Over 60 vintage & modern wedding inspired suppliers will be attending, watch a live roaming catwalk, get glamorous within the pop-up beauty boudoir and sit down to a spot of lunch at vintage tea party & pop up restaurants, enjoy live entertainment & music plus much, much more....
Many fabulous prizes to be won, gorgeous goody bags and amazing giveaways....
The RSPCA is appealing for information after 14 hamsters found themselves left in the cold outside a block of flats in Exeter at Christmas.
A member of the public was going out shopping on the afternoon of 21 December when they spotted four cages filled with Syrian hamsters on King Street, next to a block of flats.
At first they thought someone must have been moving out and had perched the cages there as a temporary measure, but when they returned several hours later and saw that the cages were still there they realised nobody was coming back for them.
Exeter City has confirmed the latest on the arrangements for their trip to Liverpool in the Emirates FA Cup Third Round replay.
A statement on the club's website reads: "We are hopeful to have the tickets on-sale this evening at 8pm, subject to any possible delays changes by TV selections."
There is not yet an official date agreed for the replay.
With the large number of tickets available compared to the anticipated level of demand for a midweek evening game, along with the short timescale in which to sell them all, tickets will simply go on general sale with no...
THE number of people joining Christmas services and concerts at Exeter Cathedral increased last month, to 24,500.
There were more people at every service throughout the month, contributing to a ten per cent rise on the numbers attending since last year.
A new service of Midnight Mass on Christmas Eve attracted 500 people and the Cathedral was filled to capacity for the traditional Grandisson service. The figures don’t include the normal weekday or Sunday services, but only special Christmas services and concerts.
The Dean of Exeter Cathedral, the Very Revd Jonathan...
From the acclaimed producers of George’s Marvellous Medicine and Horrible Histories, Birmingham Stage will bring its production of David Walliams’s Gangsta Granny to the Exeter Northcott Theatre in February.
It’s Friday night and Ben knows that means only one thing- staying with Granny! There will be cabbage soup, cabbage pie and cabbage cake and Ben knows one thing for sure- it’s going to be SO boring! But what Ben doesn’t know is that Granny has a secret – and Friday nights are about to get more exciting than he could ever imagine, as he embarks on and adventure of a lifetime...
January is traditionally a bumper month for active resolutions and the Sport England national campaign This Girl Can in association with Active Devon will be encouraging women of all shapes and sizes to try out lots of different ways of getting active.
During a whole month of visits, workshops and other celebratory activities, Active Devon the County Sports Partnership whose emphasis is on grassroots informal community sport & informal activity are especially keen to ensure that local classes and active sessions are really tailored to the needs of women who may be starting out...
Police and Crime Commissioner Tony Hogg has welcomed Government plans to invest millions in mental health provision at all accident and emergency departments. Prime Minister David Cameron will today promise to invest £247 million in the next five years to make sure that every emergency department has mental health support. He will pledge that these services are available 24 hours a day, 365 days a year in at least half of England’s acute hospitals by 2020. “I warmly welcome the Prime Minister’s commitment to establish mental health services in every accident and emergency unit in the...
Equity crowdfunding platform, Crowdcube has completed a record-breaking 2015, which saw the first two successful crowdfunding exits, a total of £83 million invested in over 166 pitches via the Crowdcube platform and a £6 million investment in the company itself. Crowdcube was also crowned the UK’s top crowdfunding company last year, with multiple award wins and named ‘Leading Equity Investor’ by Beauhurst. According to Crowdcube co-founder, Luke Lang: “2015 was an outstanding year for Crowdcube, but also a game changer in the world of crowdfunding, with not one, but two exits. First, we...
Female burying beetles are more attracted to small partners because they are less likely to get into fights, a study by researchers at the University of Exeter has found.
The research published in the Journal of Evolutionary Biology found that while small male beetles were more successful at attracting female mates to the breeding ground of an animal carcass than larger males, they didn’t make better parents.
In the first study of its kind carried out in the wild, researchers tested whether individual male burying beetles -- known for being exceptionally good parents in the...
