SWH were pleased to donate £250 to Southbrook School in Exeter in a bid to support their part in a local Go Kart Challenge.
Andrew Plumber, Business Manager at SWH, visited the school alongside Project Skills Coordinator, Anna Cooper to present the cheque and to be given a guided tour of the school’s facilities by Assistant Head, Alan Tilley.
Lee Hutchinson from SWH workshops also attended the visit to assist the pupils with the building and assembling of the kart.
Southbrook is a successful secondary special school for pupils, aged between 11 and 16, with varied...
An Exeter School pupil has proved he hasn’t forgotten the moves by taking part in three major competitions over the summer.
Year 8 pupil Leif Hafstad took part in the Gigafinal held in Reading in July qualifying for the Silver Plate South Competition which took place last weekend.
He also participated in the British Chess Championships in Wales at the beginning of August, scoring 3 out of 7 and the International Gibraltar Junior Chess Championships held in Gibraltar at the end of August, scoring 3.5 out of 6.
Leif took part in the Silver Plate South competition on...
Thames Valley Police is appealing for information to locate a missing man from Reading who may be in Devon and Cornwall. Balazs Biro, aged 32, was last seen in Corwen Road, Tilehurst, at about midday on Sunday 7 September. Balazs is white, with short light brown hair and 5ft 10ins. When he was last seen, he was wearing blue jeans, a grey or blue T-shirt and red and white Nike trainers. Balazs has access to a red Nissan Micra. Thames Valley Police believe that Balazs might be in Bournemouth, Dorset, or the Devon and Cornwall area. If you have any information regarding Balazs’ whereabouts...
Revellers who get into a spot of bother will now be able to take advantage of a Help Zone in Exeter City Centre.
The Help Zone will be open every Saturday night, starting this Saturday, between 11pm and 3.30am.
The Help Zone aims to help those who find themselves in difficulties following a night out, be it from injury, drinking too much alcohol or being a victim of violence.
Situated at St Mary Arches Church in Mary Arches Street, the Help Zone will operate each Saturday - traditionally the busiest night each week.
The British Heart Foundation shops’ Bag It. Beat It. stock appeal is under way in Exeter.
The campaign was officially launched at Princesshay on 5 September by the Lord Mayor of Exeter, Councillor Percy Prowse, when he donated the first bag of items.
Every bag donated to the Bag It. Beat It. campaign this September will fund life-saving heart research, helping over 40,000 little heroes continue to fight congenital heart disease.
The Exeter community is being urged to join in and donate a bag of good quality clothes, shoes, toys, books, CDs, DVDs and bric-a-brac and...
Eight people have today been arrested after a series of successful warrants were carried out in Plymouth and Cornwall as part of a major investigation into human trafficking and modern slavery. Search warrants were executed this morning, Tuesday 16 September, under the Immigration and Asylum Act at five properties in Plymouth and one address in Bodmin. Police arrested eight people, five women, aged between 26 and 34, and three men, aged between 35 and 37, on suspicion of trafficking people into the UK for the purpose of labour exploitation and on suspicion of money laundering. They remain...
The first ever Devon Wine and Music Festival at the renowned Pebblebed Vineyard at Clyst St George, near Exeter, was a huge success.
Hundreds of people enjoyed the cosy atmosphere of this very special festival – the high quality singers and musicians came from within a five mile radius and the food was local too.
Wine tasting from seven Devon vineyards took place in the barn and the rural idyllic scene was complete with children enjoying the space and freedom to have a straw bale fight, pick blackberries and race around the vineyard fields.
Exeter Chiefs star Jack Nowell says he has never "felt so good" on a rugby pitch after he marked his return to competitive action by claiming a try-double in Monday night's A League victory over London Welsh.
The England international has been sidelined since March with injuries to both his shoulder and knee, but he showed within minutes of his return that he was firing on all cylinders and itching to return to first team duty.
The Cornishman featured for 34 minutes as the Exeter Braves - who also added tries through Ceri Sweeney, Tom James, Jack Arnott, Sam Skinner and...
Exeter commercial property specialists, Space, have been preparing themselves for an operation of international proportions. The firm based in Southernhay have built a reputation for providing businesses with holistic commercial property services that include property search, acquisition, lease negotiation, interior design, brand integration, refurbishment and move management. Following an exciting opportunity, the firm have been given the chance to implement their skills in a completely different hemisphere. Founder and Managing Director, Tim Wadsworth, has taken a short term contract...
Patients have again recognised Devon Doctors as one of the country’s leading providers of out-of-hours [OOH] GP care.
The results of NHS England’s latest GP survey rank the OOH care it provides in South Devon and Torbay as the eighth best in the country, while North East and West Devon, which includes Exeter, ranks 10th of the 214 areas assessed.
The Exeter-based organisation has been a regular fixture in top 10 nationwide providers over the course of the past decade.
What is more, across the two areas 87 per cent of those surveyed said they had confidence and trust...
