When Crediton-based Hedgerow Print installed a new order processing system back in 2013, they never imagined that barely three years later they would be processing the 10,000th order to go through that system.
“Our order processing system automatically numbers each order and we realised a few weeks ago that we were approaching the number 10,000 and thought it might be nice to mark that milestone,” said Gary Radford, Managing Director at the Company.
In order to mark the event, Hedgerow Print contacted all their customers and contacts to let them know of the plan to award a...
1,000 Office workers from Exeter have recently taken part in an EU referendum survey and the city was named as the most pro-brexit city on the list.
Office search engine FreeOfficeFinder asked 10,000 office workers across the country whether they wish to leave the EU, remain in the EU or whether they were unsure about it . The participants were from ten different UK cities (London, Birmingham, Manchester, Liverpool, Leeds, Edinburgh, Cardiff, Leicester, Bristol and Exeter) and the results varied massively between different locations.
Award-winning West End producer Paul Taylor-Mills will be raising the curtain on his hugely popular Summer Play Festival at Sidmouth’s Manor Pavilion Theatre on Thursday (June 23) with a three-month run of productions featuring works from iconic playwrights including Coward, Wilde and Ayckbourn.
Theatregoers are in for a real treat this year with an amazing programme of 12 plays in as many weeks, which include such classics as The Ladykillers, Pygmalion, One Man, Two Guv’nors and Private Lives.
The town is bucking a national trend as the Manor Pavilion Theatre – owned and...
Exeter City Football Club will be remembering four former players who died during the Battle of the Somme at a special ceremony to be held at their St James Park war memorial.
The memorial service, in partnership with the Royal British Legion, will take place at 2pm on Friday 1 July. This is the exact centenary of the first day of the Battle of the Somme. That day alone saw 57,470 British casualties including 19,240 who were killed. Two Exeter City players - Fred Bailey and Evelyn Lintott died on this first day and two others Arthur Evans and Percy Worner during the rest of the...
Police are appealing for information after a large quantity of sentimental jewellery was stolen from a property in Dawlish.
Several gold and silver rings, necklaces, bracelets and anklets, similar to the items pictured, were taken during the burglary at a property in Badlake Hill on Wednesday 15 June, sometime between 8.10am and 7.20pm.
A sapphire and diamond gold eternity ring, a ruby and diamond gold ring, a silver necklace with a green Chinese letter pendant and a Rotary gents’ chronograph watch were among the items taken.
Three choirs present Summer Sing – “a joyous, uplifting evening of singing” – in Exeter on Friday, July 8, to help people with cancer and their families. Music Birds’ Exeter, Exminster and Topsham choirs will perform for holistic cancer charity Penny Brohn UK at St Matthew’s Hall, Lower Summerlands, from 8pm, doors at 7.30pm. Organiser Rob Carney, 35, of near Buckfastleigh, said: “Singing unites, creates community and uplifts. “The evening will be special – the choirs will perform a wonderfully eclectic mix of rock, Motown and gospel songs, and we’re planning a moment of playful audience...
The Duchy Square Centre in Princetown has been given a new lease of life, re-opening with a range of business tenants.
Councillors have been given a tour of the rejuvenated building to see the array of companies that have moved in to give the local economy a boost.
The centre houses 15 businesses and nearly all of the units in the building are now occupied.
All of the businesses are either manufacturing on site, in a service industry or involved in web sales. As there are no retail units the building is not open to the public, other than by appointment for...
South West public relations consultancy KOR Communications has won a major contract to deliver strategic communications advice and services to an international project which will see electricity flowing between France, the Channel Islands and the UK.
The Exeter-based consultancy is providing communications and engagement support to the FAB Project which aims to build a subsea and underground interconnector linking the French and British national grids.
The cables will run from the Cherbourg peninsula in France to East Devon via the Channel Island of Alderney where they will...
The number of Job Seeker’s Allowance (JSA) claimants in Devon fell to 3,237 during May, the lowest on record.
In Devon the total number of claimants fell 75 when compared to the previous month April.
Seven of Devon’s eight districts experiencing small falls in JSA, ranging between 6 and 8 claimants. Exeter being the exception, with a rise of just 5 claimants over the period.
The claimant rate (proportion of the county’s working age population claiming JSA) remained largely unchanged, South Hams and West Devon falling by just 0.1%.
Exeter Junior School enjoyed its inaugural Year 5 Careers Morning on 17 June.
This year, the focus was on 'how we use science in our jobs' with three interactive sessions run by PC Nick Taylor, Civils Manager and past pupil Jerry Bricknell and Alice Mills, the Ogden Science Outreach Officer for the College of Engineering, Mathematics and Physical Sciences at the University of Exeter.
PC Nick had pupils taking their finger prints and looking at the unique patterns found on them and linked this to genetic finger printing used by the police.
