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Devon Brothers Behind AI System Tackling Global Disinformation and Digital Threats

Devon brothers Jack and Harry Alderman have launched an artificial intelligence system that’s redefining how governments and businesses detect global risks, from disinformation and cyber threats to geopolitical instability. Their company, Satorus Group, has built Sidney - a world-first platform that automates the entire open-source intelligence (OSINT) workflow. Using analyst-trained AI agents, Sidney collects and analyses data across social media, news, and the dark web - delivering decision-ready intelligence in minutes instead of hours or days. “We grew up in Devon, where things move...

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Applications open for new course giving people the chance to join hospital operating team

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Posted: Thu, 11/02/2017 - 8:49am

Applications are now open for a new course giving people the chance to become a key part of a hospital operating team.

The RD&E and other NHS partners in Devon and Cornwall have teamed up with Birmingham City University to launch a two-year Operating Department Practitioner (ODP) course.

ODPs are a crucial part of the operating department team, working with surgeons, anaesthetists and nurses to ensure that surgery is as safe and effective as possible, providing a high standard of care to patients throughout each stage of their operation.

Students joining the...

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Russia may be aiming at Scotland as the next target

In a US Senate Intelligence Committee hearing yesterday, US Senator Angus King stated that Russia’s attempt to influence governments around the world will not stop with the 2016 US Election meddling. Senator King warned the world of Russia’s attempt to expand its influence through online and offline means around the world.

The statement also revealed that Russia may be looking to influence and support a second independence referendum in Scotland. This isn’t just an isolated attempt. It is a coordinated series of attacks on the world’s democracies.

A Sign of Bigger Problems...

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Exeter firm celebrates fifth anniversray

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Posted: Wed, 11/01/2017 - 5:47pm

On 1st November 2017, Awcock Ward Partnership (AWP) are celebrating their 5th anniversary as a successful local business. They’ve grown from 7 members of staff in 2012 to 28 in 2017 including 8 apprentices. With 3 awards under their belts, they are both locally and regionally recognised for the work they do and the way they care for their staff. In 2016 they won the Exeter Living ‘Professional Services’ Award and in 2017 they won the Express and Echo Business ‘Small Business of the Year’ award and the National Apprenticeship, South West Regional ‘Newcomer SME of the Year’ award. Their next...

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Everlasting honour for city's wartime defenders

Members of the Polish ‘307’ nightfighter squadron which defended Exeter during the Second World War will be honoured with a plaque in Exeter Cathedral this month, as the city marks the 75th anniversary of the Exeter Blitz. The events on 15th November are part of ‘307 Squadron Day’, recalling the same date in 1942 when the squadron presented the city of Exeter with the Polish flag as a sign of international cooperation. This year’s events will be attended by His Excellency Arkady Rzegocki, Polish Ambassador to Great Britain. Ambassador Rzegocki will unveil a plaque in the Cathedral’s St...

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Bishop's Move stores poppies at Exeter warehouse for British Legion North Devon

Bishop’s Move Exeter, part of the UK’s largest family owned removal company, are storing British Legion poppies to support the Armed Forces community, past and present in the Devon and Cornwall area.

When Bishop’s Move Exeter Manager, Mark Neave was approached by the British Legion to help regarding the storage of poppies for the British Legion Poppy Appeal, he couldn’t have been happier to assist.

Bishop’s Move are providing indefinite courtesy storage for the British Legion’s Poppy Appeal stock at their warehouse located in the Sowton Industrial Estate, Exeter. Due to...

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Remember, remember… Organised displays are the safest place to enjoy a firework display

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Posted: Wed, 11/01/2017 - 12:10pm

Remember, remember… organised displays are the safest place to enjoy a firework display

Devon & Somerset Fire & Rescue Service have been working alongside the National Fire Chiefs Council and a North Devon family to highlight the potential dangers of having a firework display at home. The Fire Service encourage everyone to attend an organised firework display as they are safer and they have safe and well organised displays . Maisie’s story

On Bonfire night, November 5, 2016, four year old Maisie Roe was badly burned by an ordinary garden firework. Stephanie, her...

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Countdown to Barnstaple’s Really Big Quiz 2017! Event to raise thousands for Mayor’s charity

Simpkins Edwards, the Barnstaple-based chartered accountancy firm, is calling on the brightest brains of North Devon to pull together teams of friends and colleagues to enter its 8th annual Really Big Quiz.

Taking place at the Barnstaple Hotel on Wednesday 15th November from 6.45pm, the annual Really Big Quiz brings the region’s brightest professional brains together to compete for the coveted title of Barnstaple’s and North Devon’s brainiest group or business.

The event raises vital funds for the Mayor of Barnstaple’s chosen charities, which this year include Clarity, The...

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Overnight closures at Sandygate roundabout for resurfacing

Overnight closures will be needed on Sandygate roundabout and the services roundabout at Junction 30 of the M5 for two weeks while essential resurfacing work is carried out.

The closures will take place from 8pm to 5am, and are due to start on the evening of Monday 13 November. The junction and roundabouts will be open throughout the daytime, but during overnight working hours there will be no access on or off the M5 at Junction 30, or use of Sandygate Roundabout. From Monday 27 November to Friday 15 December, there will be night time (8pm-5am) lane closures, some of which will be...

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Bridge Road to close overnight on Thursday

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Posted: Tue, 10/31/2017 - 10:37pm

Bridge Road in Exeter will be closed overnight on Thursday (2 November).

The road will be closed from 8.30pm in order to enable surfacing work to be carried out and for the last sections of guardrail to be installed. It will re-open at 5.30am the following morning (Friday 3 November). The diversion route will be signed via Topsham Road, Alphington Road, Marsh Barton and the A379. Details of the diversion route are available here . Information on changes to Stagecoach bus services will be available at https://www.stagecoachbus.com/regional-service-updates/south-west/greate......

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Kennel owner fined after dog escaped and was killed by another dog

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Posted: Tue, 10/31/2017 - 4:27pm

A kennel owner has been prosecuted by East Devon District Council and ordered to pay fines and costs of more than £4,000 after a dog staying at the kennels escaped from its pen and was killed by another dog.

Paul Sparks, the owner of Barn Close Kennels in Combe Raleigh, Honiton, pleaded guilty to five offences under the Animal Welfare Act 2006 and the Animal Boarding Establishments Act and was sentenced by Exeter Magistrates on Monday October 30. Barn Close Kennels is licensed as an Animal Boarding Establishment by East Devon District Council.

The court was told by Mr Gavin...

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