The majority shareholder of Exeter based airline Flybe has sold its entire shareholding.
The 48.1% stake owned by the Walker Family Trust through Rosedale Aviation Holdings Ltd was sold for £25.2m.
The move marks the end of a long standing relationship between the airline and the Walker family.
Late steel magnate and former owner of Blackburn Rovers Jack Walker bought the majority share of Jersey European airways in 1983, which was rebranded as Flybe in 2002.
The news comes after Monday’s announcement that Flybe will be cutting 500 jobs in a restructuring...
Get your Christmas shopping off to a flying start at Knightshayes’ annual Christmas Craft and Food Fair on Saturday 16 and Sunday 17 November, 10am-4pm.
For the first time this year, a number of local food producers are displaying their delicious goodies, alongside a brilliant selection of hand-made crafts at the Victorian Gothic National Trust house near Tiverton. Elaine Vergette from Knightshayes, who is helping to organise the Fair, said:
"We’ve run a successful Christmas Craft Fair here at Knightshayes for a...
East Devon District Council's Community Development workers have taken their two youth groups on a series of horizon broadening day trips.
The first was a visit by 18 young people to a drama workshop in a studio at the University of Exeter. Six students and an experienced theatre facilitator helped the young people develop a piece of theatre that was performed to an audience at the end of the day.
The themes of the work were gang fighting and knife crime. The young people, who are from some of the most impoverished parts of East Devon, are familiar with these and that came...
Get your Christmas shopping off to a flying start at Knightshayes’ annual Christmas Craft and Food Fair on Saturday 16 and Sunday 17 November, 10am-4pm. For the first time this year, a number of local food producers are displaying their delicious goodies, alongside a brilliant selection of hand-made crafts at the Victorian Gothic National Trust house near Tiverton. Elaine Vergette from Knightshayes, who is helping to organise the Fair, said: "We’ve run a successful Christmas Craft Fair here at Knightshayes for a few years now, but this year we’ve decided to focus on local, hand-made,...
Glen King of Glen King PR & Marketing based in Exeter is the hostess with the mostest on tonight’s Come Dine with Me on Channel 4 at 5.30pm. With last minutes unexpected changes things go a little awry for tonight’s episode but it will make great TV!
Don’t miss it!
Last night, Glen and the rest of her fellow dining contestants met for a reunion at Iain Smith Wines in Magdalen Road, Exeter for supper and wine and to catch up after the filming which took place 8 months’ ago.
New research form the Highways Agency shows that nearly half of UK drivers are unprepared for winter driving conditions.
In a survey of motorists across the UK that 28% of drivers don’t carry any of the suggested emergency kit in poor conditions and 45% don’t check their vehicle before driving in poor conditions.
In the South West it was found that a quarter of motorists don’t even carry de-icer when in the most severe weather conditions.
The Highways Agency is part of a campaign to ‘Make Time for Winter’ by asking drivers to prepare themselves and their vehicles to...
She sent shivers down the UK’s spine with her version of ‘The Power of Love’ and set the charts a light with her single ‘Please don’t say you love me’, and now Gabrielle Aplin is set to get the people of Exeter singing and dancing as she performs at the Great Hall on Monday 18th November.
Gabrielle has seen continuous success since she took part in that famous John Lewis advert.
The ‘Home’ singer is performing in Exeter as part of her extensive UK headline tour. As well as her tour plans, a fourth single has recently been released from her No.2 charting debut album ‘English...
Doctors in Devon have backed a national charity’s campaign to raise awareness of schizophrenia by challenging popular myths about the illness.
Schizophrenia Awareness Week takes place from 11-17 November and GPs at Northern, Eastern and Western Devon Clinical Commissioning Group (NEW Devon CCG) are supporting the campaign, which is run by national charity Rethink Mental Illness.
Last year a national independent commission on schizophrenia and psychosis found that a change in attitude towards schizophrenia was needed both in the NHS and wider society.
Billy Bragg is releasing his first album in 5 years “Tooth & Nail” on March 18 and has announced a UK tour including a date at Exeter’s Great Hall on Thursday 05 December 2013.
Drawing on personal rather than political themes, Tooth & Nail was recorded over a whirlwind five-day session with Grammy Award winning producer Joe Henry (whose impeccable production credits include Solomon Burke, Aimee Mann, Elvis Costello and Hugh Laurie) in his South Pasadena basement studio.
With Joe taking Billy out of his comfort zone (all vocals were recorded live without retakes or...
Crediton, the birth place of St Boniface, who according to legend invented the Christmas Tree, stages its ninth Christmas Tree Festival at Crediton Parish Church in early December.
Decorated and illuminated Christmas Trees, from six to twenty feet in height, are all decked out in many imaginatives ways by local charities, children's groups and organisations will fill the church providing a spectacular display especialy as the natural light fades during the afternoons. Stalls, refreshments, church tours.
This is a community event suitable for all ages. This is a major fund...
