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The Deer Park Country House hotel, near Honiton, has provided the perfect setting for wealth management company Brewin Dolphin’s South West summer party.

More than 300 guests attended the event, including private clients from across the region, agents, their clients and professional intermediaries.

Guests were treated to a variety of treats including a cream tea in the walled garden, where Deer Park’s head gardener Olly Forster gave a talk. They were also able to explore the house and the classic car collection or listen to a market update by Brewin Dolphin’s Head of Equity...

A £1,000 donation from a local housebuilder is supporting a four-year-old with cerebral palsy in her daily life.

Persimmon Homes South West has made the donation to help Madeline Bell, from Willand, Cullompton, in her efforts to become more independent and to ease some of the painful side effects of her condition.

The £1,000 grant was made through Persimmon Homes’ hugely successful Community Champions campaign.

Kayleigh Bell, Madeline’s mum, said: “Madeline was very poorly when she was born and wasn’t expected to live past a few days, but she has certainly come a...

The Department of Sport and Health Sciences (St Luke’s Campus) has been awarded an Athena SWAN Silver Award, recognising its commitment to advancing the careers of women in science through addressing gender inequality, tackling unequal gender representation across the student and staff population and improving career progression for female academics.

Sport and Health Sciences is the first department from the College of Life and Environmental Sciences to be awarded Silver under the new ‘Post May 2015’ Athena SWAN criteria.

This offers a more robust framework for enhancing...

The UK’s first large law firm to become employee-owned, Stephens Scown LLP, has appointed two new Exeter-based sector heads. Toby Pool, a partner in the firm’s real estate team becomes head of leisure and tourism, while Thomas Chartres-Moore an associate in the firm’s intellectual property team takes on the role of head of food and drink. Tom is a non-executive director of the not-for-profit organisation Food and Drink Devon. Robert Camp, Stephens Scown’s managing partner said: “Our job is to help our clients to solve problems and seize opportunities. But first we need to understand their...