Stagecoach has announced that tickets for single journeys on Falcon are available for pre-purchase from Bristol Airport’s new onward transport kiosk.
Customers can buy their ticket using either contactless card or chip & pin, helping speed up boarding times and negating the need for having cash ready to give the driver. Single journey tickets are available for the following destinations:
Energy Hair, Exeter’s luxury destination salon based at Darts Farm, has recently invested in a state of the art refurbishment.
The salon already has a reputation as being Exeter’s leading luxury salon and is recognised on a national level for its high standard of stylists. However, owner Nathan Plumridge has a vision to create an even more luxurious salon for his customers.
Nathan said: “2017 is a pivotal year for us. After celebrating 18 years in business and our most successful year yet, we really wanted to give something back to our customers. The new salon is designed...
Creative design and digital agency Toucan has announced it has new contracts for clients at both ends of the British Isles – despite being based in the South West.
The Diocese of Aberdeen and Orkney is nearly 900 miles from the Duchy of Cornwall on the Isles of Scilly, but distance is not getting in the way of delivering two major projects.
“Geography is no barrier to working with organisations at the very edge of the country,” said Creative Director Josh Beadon. “But we were slightly surprised that we landed both contracts through word-of-mouth!”
Last year the Two Moors Way – Devon’s Coast to Coast walking route - celebrated its 40th anniversary. A series of improvement works were undertaken and the 115+ mile route, linking two coasts and the South West’s two National Parks, re-launched to celebrate this milestone. Local businesses are now invited to join free workshops to discover how they can benefit from the work as the industry gears up for the new visitor season.
Three workshops will take place along the route at the Simonsbath House Hotel on Exmoor (27 March), The Drewe Arms, Drewsteignton (25 April) and the Watermark...
Offwell Primary from Honiton, Redhills Primary in Exeter and the ACE MAT were successful in gaining Erasmus+ funding to participate in an Erasmus + project which will be led by CEIP Andrés García Soler from Lorca, Spain.
This project, therefore, includes these two Primary schools from Devon, the MAT, the Spanish school, Scuola Padre Pio from Altamura, Italy and Rigas Classical Gymnasium from Latvia as well as Nebrija University from Madrid.
As part of this project, Primary school students from Offwell Primary in Honiton and Redhills Primary in Exeter have stayed for a week...
Debenhams Exeter is pledging its support for our military heroes and veterans by partnering with Help for Heroes for the fourth year in the row.
Ahead of this year’s National Collection Weekend – Saturday 11 and Sunday 12 March – Debenhams stores across the UK will be helping to raise as much money as possible for the charity that works to support wounded, injured and sick British servicemen, women and their families.
The Exeter store, along with other Debenhams stores across the UK, have collectively contributed more than £1.3m and are aiming to make 2017 its biggest year...
False news is not restricted to politics, it can also affect people looking for health advice online.
With so much information available on the internet, it is often hard for people to establish what is published by a reliable source – just because it is on the internet does not mean it is necessarily correct.
Helping to create Cranbrook Healthy Town, Cranbrook’s team of library volunteers and some members of Cranbrook Medical Centre’s Patient Participation Group (PPG) enjoyed finding out about reliable and safe online health information recently.
Business owners and self-employed people are facing an increase in their tax bills following the Spring Budget, experts from leading South West law firm Stephens Scown LLP are warning. Chancellor Philip Hammond announced on Wednesday that the tax-free dividend allowance will be cut from £5,000 to £2,000 from April next year. The measure will affect many business owners, as well as investors. The Chancellor also revealed that the main rate of National Insurance contributions (NICs) for the self-employed will increase. But there was some relief for companies facing sharp increases in their...
Police are becoming increasingly concerned for the welfare of a 70 year old man called Peter Giles from Newton St Cyres.
A member of the public reported a Landrover Discovery that belongs to Peter on a small road bridge, in an area known locally as ‘Newton Rec’ in Newton St Cyres, a few miles from Crediton.
Police have been carrying out detailed searches of the immediate vicinity but this man has not been located at this time.
See photograph of Peter Giles for his likeness. If anyone has seen this man very recently please call 999 immediately, otherwise call 101...
Insurance industry software specialist, Business Administration and Actuary Corporation (BAAC), is opening a new office in Exeter, following the Managing Director’s relocation from South Africa.
Established in 1997 as PinnAfrica, BAAC provides bespoke web based software to the insurance industry in order to manage sales, claims and contact databases.
Owners Neville and Belinda Du Piesanie and the South Africa Operations Director, bought the company, which boasts some of the biggest names in the motoring industry among its clients, three years ago.
