The Exe Estuary Trail and the new community of Cranbrook have both been shortlisted for a prestigious industry award by the Royal Town Planning Institute.
The Trail and the Cranbrook scheme are finalists in the category of 'Excellence in Planning to Deliver Infrastructure' category in the RTPI Awards for Planning Excellence 2015.
The award winning RTPI Awards for Planning Excellence highlight exceptional examples of planning and celebrate the contribution that planners and planning make to society.
Both schemes will be up against some of the best examples of...
Newcomer Shaun Malton says he’s ready to start an “exciting new chapter in his life” after he became the latest addition to Rob Baxter’s first team squad at Exeter Chiefs.
The South African-born hooker is the Devon club’s fifth new addition ahead of the 2015/16 season and joins on a two-year deal from Championship outfit Nottingham.
Malton, who has previously had spells with London Irish and also the Sharks in the Currie Cup, admitted the chance to join the Aviva Premiership club was an opportunity he simply could not resist.
Flybe, the Exeter-based airline, has re-introduced a series of ‘sun route’ flights to Alicante, Malaga and Faro to coincide with the first Bank Holiday of 2015.
The routes to Spain and Portugal from Exeter have started ahead of the Easter break and operate until late September with a frequency of up to four per week from May when Palma Majorca is also introduced into the Flybe schedule.
Thomson Holidays have already started their 2015 flights to the very popular Balearic Island and the all year-round Thomson flights to Sharm el Sheikh, Lanzarote, Gran Canaria, Cyprus and...
A business that connects trainees from around the world with companies in Devon is expanding its work in Exeter.
The Training Partnership puts together companies with high-calibre trainees looking to improve their business skills, providing short term work placements that benefit both. Placements are supernumerary and funded through EU schemes such as Erasmus+ and PONS.
Several Exeter-based organisations are already signed up, including the blur Group, Exeter City Council and MOTO.
Now the Training Partnership, based at the Torbay Innovation Centre, is encouraging...
Meteorologists at the Exeter-based Met Office are forecasting high pressure for much of the Bank Holiday weekend across the UK, which means a good deal of dry weather, along with light winds.
Forecasters say that the Easter break is likely to start on rather a cloudy and damp note, with a frontal system sweeping outbreaks of rain across the country on Good Friday. This cloud and rain will gradually clear from the west through the course of the day, with drier and brighter conditions spreading eastwards during the afternoon and evening.
A caravan was destroyed by fire at Exeter Racecourse this morning.
One fire fighting appliance from Middlemoor and an appliance from Danes Castle attended reports of a caravan on fire at Exeter Racecourse on Haldon Hill just after 7.40am.
A spokesman for the fire service said: “Upon arrival, crews found one touring caravan completely destroyed by fire, crews used one main jet and two breathing apparatus and a thermal imaging camera.
Renowned British tea and coffee merchant Ringtons is bringing its traditional doorstep delivery service to thousands more households across the South West thanks to a new business venture in Newton Abbot. The new Ringtons base in Newton Abbot has been launched following a period of substantial growth on the south coast of England. Thousands of residents are already enjoying Ringtons’ quality tea, coffee, edibles and seasonal gifts from the company’s existing bases in Hointon, Sidmouth, Exeter and Ivybridge, and the new site will help expand Ringtons’ reach. With over 15 years’ experience...
Picture yourself on a spaceship, hundreds of miles above the Earth. Your journey into the cosmos will last some time - but, you only have a limited number of resources on board for yourself and your fellow space travellers, which, given their scarcity, you need to manage wisely.
As far back as 1966, economist Kenneth E. Boulding envisioned the need for a movement away from what he termed a "cowboy economy“, based on the assumption of apparently boundless resources, to a "spaceman economy". In his essay “The Coming of a Spaceship Earth,” he made the analogy that...
A generation of children are growing up without experiencing simple pleasures such as splashing in puddles or mud, building a sandcastle - or even making daisy chains, a study has revealed.
Researchers found a whole range of traditional nature activities could soon become a thing of the past as children spend their spare time playing computer games, watching TV or just hanging out with friends instead.
Playing in open spaces and woodland, planting their own seeds and climbing trees are also among the activities a large number of today’s youngsters have never tried.
