Pret A Manger will be opening the doors to its westernmost UK shop next month; a spacious corner site on Exeter’s High Street. Due to open mid-September, the new shop is creating up to 20 new jobs, which the company is currently finalising recruitment for. To celebrate the opening, Pret will be holding a two-day party outside the shop on 19 and 20 September, offering free hot drinks from a special Pret coffee van, and entertaining customers with a band, kids’ entertainer and face painter. The event will be held from 11am – 3pm on both days. Inside the shop, customers will be welcomed by...
Exeter School pupils, parents and staff are celebrating another round of consistently excellent GCSE results which have set a new record in excellence.
A record 83.4% were A* or A grades, compared to last year’s 82.5%, and 50.6% of all grades were A*.
99.3% of grades were A* - C.
There were many high achievers across the range of 21 subjects with 78 pupils attaining eight or more A* or A grades.
Forty-five pupils scored 10 A*/A grades or more.
Among the high achievers, all rounder Eka Barker-Privalova attained 12 A*s. Talented strings musician and...
Massive barrel jellyfish have appeared in record numbers for a second consecutive year, whilst in July huge numbers of mauve stingers were reported off Guernsey, and the potentially dangerous Portuguese Man O War has been washing up on beaches in the South West.
The rise of jellyfish in UK seas can no longer be ignored, and that more dedicated research and monitoring is needed to understand these apparent increases and what they mean for the state of our seas.
“Our National Jellyfish Survey suggests significant recent rises in the numbers of some jellyfish species in UK...
Small and medium sized businesses in the South West believe future success relies on their ability to recruit so-called millennials – those born between 1980 and 2000 – but recognise that they need to do more to attract them, according to new research by Lloyds Bank Commercial Banking.
More than three quarters (79 per cent) of SMEs across the region said that the growth of their business relies on their ability to recruit millennial talent. In fact more than a third (35 per cent) said they want a millennial to take over their business one day.
Blundell’s School is thrilled with the excellent provisional GCSE results achieved by their Year 11 students. In a year group of 101, there was a 30% increase on last year in the number of A* grades, with an A* rate of 26%. More than half the year group gained the highest grades with an impressive A*/A score of 54% and nearly 40% of the year group gained 8 A*/A or more.
Twenty pupils gained 6A* or above with the following pupils gaining a tremendous 11A* or more: George Hill, Francis Huntingford, Hannah Le Gassick, Ennea Miller-Hunt, Caspar Montgomery, Harriet Nash, Rosalie Sanders...
Police have found Steven Brannick, reported missing on Monday.
He was found safe and well in Exeter on Wednesdsay evening (19 August).
The 48-year-old was last seen leaving his home in the Countess Wear area at 3pm on Monday 17 August and police were concerned for his welfare as the disappearance is totally out-of-character.
Police would like to thank the public for their assistance.
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Innovative IT firm Hosted Desktop UK (HDUK), a pioneer in cloud computing and winner of the 2015 Express & Echo Small Business of the Year Award, is celebrating five successful years since its launch in August 2010. With over 12 years’ experience in the IT industry and following rigorous research and development into cloud-based technology, young entrepreneur and HDUK MD, Adam Chetnik, founded what has become one of the most respected hosted desktop providers in the UK.
HDUK’s virtual desktop solutions were an instant success when the company first launched five years ago – the...
SunGift Energy has today crane-lifted the first ‘solar carport’ frames onto the roof of Exeter City Council’s Mary Arches car park.
It is believed to be the first solar installer in the UK carry out such an installation on the roof of a multi-story car park.
The start of work is particularly significant as it is the most technologically complex solar solution that SunGift has carried out to-date, with the company’s experts solving a number of technical challenges before the project could be started.
Exeter City Council awarded the contract to Devon-based SunGift,...
An NHS physiotherapist from Exeter has returned from a charity mission to transform the lives of patients and improve services in rural Kenya.
Amy Souster spent 10 days on the Kenya Orthopaedic Project (KOP), joining a team of healthcare professionals from the UK tasked with educating and operating on as many local people in need as possible.
The team visited Nanyuki Teaching and Referral Hospital, which serves a population of over 100,000 in Northern Kenya.
“They have 150 beds and six doctors who try to provide a service that covers every medical condition seen in...
Leading South West recruitment and training agency Acorn, has been awarded a place as a Crown Commercial Service (CCS) supplier on the non-medical, non-clinical, temporary staffing framework for the National Health Service (NHS).
The new two-year agreement will be rolled out across all its branches and specialist divisions throughout the UK, and will cover all non-medical roles within a number of sectors, including finance and accounting, IT, office administration, purchasing, technical and facilities management, HR and quality management.
