Business

Neil Parish MP has welcomed the announcement of new funding to support businesses and infrastructure in Devon – helping local businesses to create new jobs and train more young people.

The Heart of the South West Local Enterprise Partnership has secured a Growth Deal with the Government worth £130 million to support economic growth in Devon, Somerset, Plymouth and Torbay.

The deal will unlock further investment of £140m from the private sector and local partners. In total over £6 billion of projects will be supported by the Growth Fund across England in 2015/16, with...

Businesses have been urged to make sure they are up to speed with new flexible working legislation which came into force last week.

Robert Shaw, consulting solicitor at Cartridges in Exeter has highlighted the following issues:

Currently, only employees with children under 17 (or those with disabled children under 18) and those who have responsibilities as a carer have a right to request flexible working.

The new law extends this right, and means that, from 30 June 2014, any employee with 26 weeks' continuous service will be able to make an application to work...

Directors and staff of Wealth Management Company, Brewin Dolphin Exeter office held their annual summer party for clients and associates at Exeter Castle.

This year’s event was extra special as the Exeter office celebrates its tenth anniversary in the City.

Over 250 guests were welcomed with a glass of Pimm’s and delicious canapés from Posh Nosh.

Representatives of the Exeter Office’s charity of the year, Children’s Hospice South West (CHSW) were also present and to-date Brewin Dolphin staff have raised an incredible £2,500 for this worthy cause.

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A health centre has undergone a major telecommunications revamp to help further improve customer service for its 10,000 patients.

Roborough Surgery, in Eastcote Close, Plymouth, has had a new call handling system installed by IP Office Ltd based in Exeter, which hopes to boost service efficiency. The new installation was completed last week and now call-handling is via a full commercial contact centre.

Karen Avery, reception manager at Roborough Surgery, said: “The new system will be up and running fully from July 7, but certainly what we are getting at the moment we are...