Plans have been submitted for a "multi-million pound" ambulance hub at Exeter's Skypark, from which crews will be able to swiftly respond to both local and national emergencies.
Developer St Modwen along with Devon Country Council has submitted a planning application for what will become the first commercially occupied building at Exeter's £210 million Skypark business zone.
The 24,165 sq ft purpose-built facility will be built on behalf of the South Western Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust, which will acquire the freehold when complete.
The Culture Secretary, Maria Miller, said this week she would fight hard in the forthcoming spending review for Arts and Culture. That’s an improvement on her predecessor, Jeremy Hunt, who seemed to take pride in the size of the cuts he offered up to the Treasury and was the first Minister to settle in the last spending round.
Investment in arts and culture is tiny - less than 1% of overall Government spending. Yet it goes a long way in terms of jobs and economic growth. Sometimes wrongly seen as a fluffy luxury, arts spending is central to Britain’s economic future. Independent...
Young people from across the region took part in a series of tests on Thursday as Exeter College hosted the inaugural South West CYQ Fitness Trainer Competition. Students from Exeter College’s Exercise and Fitness and Personal Trainer and Sports Massage courses were joined by competitors from Petroc to decide who would be the South West winners and go through to the National final.
The 12 competitors battled it out in two competitions, which ran throughout the day. Judged by experts from Cornwall and London, the competition involved giving a fitness consultation and designing and...
One of the South West’s most up-and-coming ‘Cloud’ solution specialists, Hosted Desktop UK, has again been asked to speak at the UK’s premier accountancy exhibition, Accountex, on Thursday 6 and Friday 7 June.
Attracting over 3,000 accountants and financial directors plus over 100 exhibitors, the event will see Jonathan Oldknow, Sales Manager for the Exeter-based company, take to the stage at London’s ExCel to deliver a presentation about how hosted desktop is revolutionising the professional office.
Jonathan Oldknow has worked within the IT industry for 23 years...
Approximately 30 people attended the Opening Day of the new TABS Training Centre in Exeter, including the Lord Mayor Councillor Rob Newby who officially opened the centre. There was also representation from local businesses and charities supporting the Opening Day.
TABS Director Mark Mitchell gave a presentation on the courses that are offered at the centre and the Lord Mayor followed with a speech on his personal experience after being made redundant from the Fire Service and lacking the required skills to help him get back into work. He pointed out that having organisations such...
Exeter City FC’s Football in the Community Charitable Trust is to pilot a new three-year learning engagement project, Kick Start, in conjunction with ATASS Respect, to work with children attending schools in the Exeter area.
The programme aims to support 30 children each year who may be at risk of disengaging from education for various reasons. Those who will be invited on to the programme will have shown a capacity to respond to alternative methods of learning, but could be vulnerable to low levels of academic achievement.
A year-long pilot exercise will be split into the...
An Art for Life charity auction takes place on Saturday 11 May 2013 at the Royal Clarence Hotel in Cathedral Yard, Exeter.
The event is set to take place from 10.30am-12.30pm and will display a vast amount of artwork by South West academicians and other established British artists including works by Ken Howard RA OBE, Rose Hilton ARCA, Peter Brown NEAC and many more.
The paintings have been donated to the auction, which will be conducted by Robin Barlow, in order to raise money for Children’s Hospice South West. This fantastic charity cares for children with a limited life...
The Vibes Dance Party is finally here and what a party we have lined up for you!
Whatever your favourite style of dancing we have it all, from a ballroom workshop to the best of Zumba with a taste of the Far East and Latin vibes and all the best of Swagga which will have you singing and dancing and going mad plus a taster of Bokwa! More importantly there is a bar! So let your hair down and party with us!
Tickets are £6 and available on the door. Friends and children, boyfriends and husbands are more than welcome to join the fun.
In the past year nearly 45,000 hours of volunteer time have been devoted to looking after National Trust owned property on Exmoor.
The latest figures for volunteering on just the National Trust properties inside the Exmoor National Park show that 748 volunteers contributed an astonishing 44,470 volunteer hours in the twelve month period to March 2013.
It is the first time that the volunteer data has been compiled in this way to include every NT property within the National Park boundary - Dunster Castle, West Exmoor, Exmoor Bunkhouse and the Holnicote Estate.
Preparation has started on the build for this year's Devon County Show on 16-18 May. A team of eight contractors are making the showground home for the next month as they build marquees equivalent in size to approximately four football pitches. Show Secretary Ollie Allen said the early days of the build were a testing time for the team. “This is a really big task!” she said. “In marquee-building terms, it’s equivalent to scaling Mount Everest! “Each year, Danco, the marquee contractors, put in some new recruits with the more established staff members and within weeks, sometimes days, it is...
