The average age of people in Exeter getting help with their pension needs is 61 despite free guidance being available for anyone over 50, Citizens Advice Exeter has revealed.
This means people could be planning their retirement finances 11 years earlier, to make sure they have the right money to fit into their future plans.
As the Pension Wise service marks its first anniversary, Citizens Advice Exeter says it’s never too early to start planning for your retirement and is encouraging local people aged 50 and over with a defined contribution pension to book a free guidance...
Minette Batters, the Vice President of the National Farmers’ Union (NFU) is set to address attendees at an upcoming free event organised by local professional services firms.
PKF Francis Clark, Savills and Stephens Scown LLP are joining forces to host what is hoped to be a lively Q&A session which will cover some of the most pressing issues in farming today; from the prospect of Brexit and pressures facing the dairy sector to competitiveness in the industry and the power of the supermarkets.
The event takes place on Wednesday 11 May at Lifton Farm Shop, Lifton, Devon....
East Devon District Council Chairman Cllr Stuart Hughes will be lighting a beacon on Sidmouth seafront on Thursday (April 21) to mark Her Majesty The Queen’s 90th birthday.
The beacon will be among a chain of more than 1,000 beacons to be lit across the country that evening to mark Her Majesty’s milestone anniversary. The Queen will light the first one in Windsor.
The Sidmouth beacon is situated by the rock groyne near Fore Street between the York Hotel and Saltrock and will be lit at 7.05pm. The Sidmouth Mummers and Sidmouth Town Band will be performing nearby just after 6...
Willmott Dixon, one of the UK’s largest construction companies, invited local business leaders to join them at Woodbury Park Hotel to celebrate the opening of a new South West headquarters for the business.
Guests included representatives of Exeter Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Exeter City Council, East Devon District Council, Exeter Science Park and the Met Office as well as many of the firm’s locally based suppliers.
The firm was welcomed to the region by Derek Phillips, vice president of Exeter Chamber of Commerce and Industry and Karime Hassan, chief executive of...
A Night of Dirty Dancing comes to Devon Back in 1987 a low-budget film captured the hearts of cinemagoers the world over as two relatively unknown performers – Patrick Swayze and Jennifer Grey – danced their way to movie immortality, and $214m at the box office.
Since then, generation after generation has continued to take the legendary production – Dirty Dancing – to their hearts.
Demand for a film sequel has swelled year upon year. Prospects of a remake have escalated during the past five years, only to be scotched in July 2015 when the producers announced they wouldn’t...
Back in 1987 a low-budget film captured the hearts of cinemagoers the world over as two relatively unknown performers – Patrick Swayze and Jennifer Grey – danced their way to movie immortality, and $214m at the box office.
Since then, generation after generation has continued to take the legendary production – Dirty Dancing – to their hearts.
Demand for a film sequel has swelled year upon year. Prospects of a remake have escalated during the past five years, only to be scotched in July 2015 when the producers announced they wouldn’t be taking up a multi-million dollar...
BBC Radio 1’s Scott Mills this morning announced the line-up for BBC Radio 1’s Big Weekend Exeter 2016, revealing that acts including Mumford and Sons, The Weeknd, Iggy Azalea, Nick Jonas and Jess Glynne will perform at Europe’s biggest free ticketed event at Powderham Castle on 28th and 29th May.
The two-day event that is hosted by Radio 1 DJs will feature three stages - the Main Stage, In New Music We Trust Stage and BBC Introducing Stage - and will host performances from over 50 of the biggest and freshest UK and international acts, bringing the nation together for a shared live...
Exeter Chiefs and England Rugby superstar Jack Nowell was among 250 guests at a special gala dinner in aid of a project to remember 19,240 Allied servicemen who lost their lives on the first day of the Battle of the Somme.
This year marks 100 years since the bloodiest day in British military history and the 19240 Shrouds of the Somme project aims to bring into sharp focus the true reality, loss and sacrifice of every individual who died on the 1st of July 1916.
Artist Rob Heard has been hand crafting thousands of shroud covered miniature figurines – each representing the...
Anna Kressler, a second year BA (Hons) Photography student from Germany, has landed the Eaton Portrait Prize for “Sterrin”, her photograph of a young girl living in a refugee camp in the Dunkirk suburb of Grande-Synthe.
The award, which is generously sponsored by former Anglia Ruskin Photography student Andy Eaton, comes with the first prize of a MacBook Air. An exhibition of the shortlisted work is on display outside the Mumford Theatre on the Cambridge campus until 23 April.
The Sustainability Art Prize, sponsored by Anglia Ruskin’s Cambridge School of Art and Global...
This Saturday hundreds of runners will tackle the 5km course at the National Trust’s Killerton estate to celebrate the fifth anniversary of parkrun and will be baking a birthday cake to mark the occasion.
Killerton was the first National Trust property to work with parkrun to host the popular 5km run.
The free run takes place every Saturday at 9am, and the number of runners has grown from 44 at the first Killerton parkrun to over 370 on the busiest ever day. The parkrun organisers hope to break the record this week as the event reaches its five year milestone.
