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A new chapter for Exeter based Sparx Learning: Chair Simon Lebus CBE steps down as Sir Charlie Mayfield appointed

Sparx Learning , the Exeter-based education technology company, has announced that Sir Charlie Mayfield will become Chair in October 2025. He will succeed Simon Lebus CBE who is stepping down after six years of transformative leadership.

Since becoming Chair in 2019, Simon Lebus has overseen a period of remarkable growth and strategic progress at Sparx. At the start of his tenure, the company served just 14 schools in Devon. Today, Sparx’s platforms support over 2.4 million students in 2,600 schools, including almost 50 in Devon, across mathematics, literacy and science.

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Lidl UK opens new £55m regional distribution centre in Exeter

Authored by News Desk
Posted: Wed, 11/15/2017 - 6:29pm

Lidl UK has officially started operations from its new Regional Distribution Centre in Exeter. This £55 million investment has created approximately 500 jobs and will service 40 stores across the region during the busy Christmas period, rising to 51 from February 2018. The new, 50,000 m² hub in the Exeter Gateway business park comes as part of Lidl’s wider investment and modernisation programme across the South West. The Regional Distribution Centre will serve stores from Penzance to as far as Burnham-on-Sea and across to Weymouth, with 1,700 pallets of products projected to go through its...

Personal and executive coaching at PSP: Helping people become their own brand of awesome

Using coaching to help change people’s lives for the better is at the heart of NLP Master Practitioner Sam Dyer’s mission statement.

Utilising modern coaching techniques, he can assist people with medical conditions or further enhance the performance of Devon’s top executives.

Sam’s company, Raven Dragon, is based at the prestigious Plymouth Science Park. As a coach and trainer, Sam has worked with a broad range of clients to bring out the best in themselves - through using talking as a therapy and various techniques which employ language as a tool for improvement.

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PSP design team boosts city student talent to support local firms

Some of Devon’s best upcoming design talent is being given the opportunity to hone their skills and supply first rate work to top firms across the country, thanks to a pioneering scheme set up by Plymouth Science Park based company, Logo Creative Partners.

The team is currently in the process of expanding its portfolio at the 25 acre Derriford site. They’ve launched DoMoreDesign.com in conjunction with Plymouth City Council. The aim of the project is to encourage students to undertake design work for companies.

The scheme takes the form of a competition which allows a...

Laundered cash will be used to compensate rogue trader victims

Authored by News Desk
Posted: Wed, 11/15/2017 - 4:52pm

One of a pair of convicted rogue builders has been ordered to pay back more than £11,000 of his illegal earnings.

John Carroll, 26, of Cricklade, who is serving 38-months in prison for fraud, and Swansea’s John Rice, 21, who has served a 12 week sentence for money laundering had conned a string of victims in South West England and Wales. At a hearing Judge Graham Cottle ruled that Rice had earned £28,950 by laundering Carroll’s illegal proceeds and ordered him to repay what remained in his possession, £11,650, which will go to his victims.

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Success story continues at MiHi Digital

A local digital marketing agency has celebrated its fourth birthday after another year of record breaking growth.

MiHi Digital, which was created from a one-bedroom flat on the Exeter Quayside by online marketing specialist Mark Worden in 2013, has grown by more than 30% over the past twelve months, winning 62 new clients and launching 42 websites.

Director of MiHi Digital, Mark Worden said “They say that the first two years in business are the hardest, so it’s an incredibly proud moment for us to pass our fourth anniversary and still be growing at an exponential rate. We’...

Annual Santa abseil for YMCA Exeter returns

Authored by Mary Youlden
Posted: Wed, 11/15/2017 - 12:09pm

YMCA Exeter’s 8th annual Santa Abseil from Princesshay car park returns once again on Saturday 9th December.

Dressed in Santa suits, local people of Exeter, from amateurs to abseiling veterans, will be challenged to take on the 100ft abseil down Princesshay car park to raise funds and awareness for youth homelessness over the festive season.

With the aim for each volunteer to raise £150, these essential funds will help to support those transitioning from vulnerable accommodation into their new home at YMCA Exeter. Every year the charity provide Support Accommodation for...

Clean sweep for 'excellent' Teignbridge beaches

Authored by Mary Youlden
Posted: Wed, 11/15/2017 - 11:07am

Swimming spots in Teignbridge have all reached ‘excellent’ bathing water quality standards.

Visitors to Teignbridge will be able to enjoy swimming in cleaner water than ever before thanks to huge strides made to improve water quality.

Teignbridge has welcomed the 2017 results of water testing at more than 400 outdoor swimming spots in England – called bathing waters - published today by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra).

This is great news for beach-goers and a major success for Teignmouth Town Beach which has improved from ‘sufficient’...

Good news as emergency beds provide refuge for rough sleepers this winter

Authored by News Desk
Posted: Tue, 11/14/2017 - 4:50pm

Extra bed spaces have been made available for rough sleepers in Exeter over the winter period, the City Council has announced. The 15 extra emergency beds will be provided at Gabriel House in the city centre as part the City Council’s response to providing emergency accommodation and bringing rough sleepers inside during the harshest winter weather. Bournemouth Churches Housing Association (BCHA), who run Gabriel House, will be running the service from 1 December through to the end of March. This year the initiative has been extended by an extra month. Cllr Emma Morse, Lead Councillor for...

Community consultation launched to help shape how Cranbrook develops over next 15 years

Authored by News Desk
Posted: Tue, 11/14/2017 - 3:43pm

Following last year’s ‘Issues and Options’ consultation, residents of Cranbrook and neighbouring parishes are being encouraged by East Devon District Council to comment on the ‘Preferred Approach’ to how Devon’s newest town will grow and develop, as part of an 8 week community consultation.

Anyone living or working in and around Cranbrook can have their say on ‘The Cranbrook Plan: Preferred Approach’ from Friday 10 November 2017 – Monday 8 January 2018.

East Devon District Council sifted through all the comments and suggestions from the previous round of consultation to...

Awards for Cycle Challenge winners

Authored by Mary Youlden
Posted: Tue, 11/14/2017 - 12:34pm

Award winners from this year’s Devon Cycle Challenge have celebrated their achievements at a special presentation at County Hall.

It is the third year that Devon County Council has run the Cycle Challenge as part of Cycle September, and in that time more than 900 new riders have been encouraged to take up cycling by signing up to the scheme. In total, over 2.3 million miles have been clocked up in the past three years. The Cycle Challenge is a friendly competition among workplaces and individuals in an effort to get as many people cycling in Devon as possible. Almost 130...

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