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Exeter based Browne Jacobson first law firm to back national volunteering effort

UK and Ireland law firm, Browne Jacobson is backing a national effort to mobilise millions of volunteers while strengthening its employee volunteering offer, as a Founder Member of GoVo , the digital volunteering platform developed by Royal Voluntary Service.

Built in partnership with hundreds of charities, GoVo and GoVo for Business – the platform’s corporate interface - aim to expand the reach and impact of volunteering nationwide.

As a Founder Member, Browne Jacobson will work alongside Royal Voluntary Service, one of the largest volunteering organisations in Britain...

Change afoot at Tickety-Boo

Authored by Sue Cade
Posted: Sat, 10/08/2016 - 11:48am

Tickety-Boo in Ottery St Mary has welcomed a new front of house manager to the team.

Zoe Blackmore has taken the reins at the coffee shop and children’s play kingdom in Mill Street after Jane North decided to return to her previous role as a Teaching Assistant.

Zoe, from Ottery, has been working at Tickety-Boo part time since it opened. She brings with her a wealth of experience including a 15-year stint at the Tesco staff canteen, where she was Team Leader, and is well known locally as she has also worked at the Kings Arms.

Another welcome addition to the front of...

Powderham Food Festival's most successful year yet

The fifth Powderham Food Festival has been the most successful yet with over 6000 visitors attending the two-day event in the grounds of Powderham Castle, during the first weekend of October.

Online ticket sales for the festival were four times higher than the previous year, showing that more people were planning ahead and booking in advance of the event.

The festival also featured a record number of exhibitors, with over 150 in attendance. This was a mix of local food and drink producers offering all kinds of tasty delights to sample and buy, but also a range of unique...

Appeal to trace stolen military medals

Authored by News Desk
Posted: Fri, 10/07/2016 - 5:38pm

Police are investigating a burglary which took place at a property in Newton Abbot where precious military medals were taken.

The incident happened between 5:10am and 6.30am on Tuesday 20 September at a home in Queensway.

The offenders gained entry through a small upstairs window and stole eight military medals in bronze, silver and gold [pictured] which are of huge personal value to the home owner.

They include campaign medals achieved from the owner’s former military service in the former Yugoslavia, Kosovo, Northern Ireland, the 2nd Gulf War and Afghanistan....

Exeter wins recognition at awards ceremonies

Exeter has won recognition at a number of influential awards ceremonies.

Local authorities Exeter City Council and Teignbridge District Council were singled out for their role in putting on the highly successful BBC Radio 1's Big Weekend at Powderham Castle.

Working in partnership, the two councils won the Tourism Event of the Year Award at the English Riviera and South Devon Tourism and Hospitality Awards.

Fifty thousand people attended the Big Weekend at the end of May, witnessing some of the best bands in the business, including Coldplay and Mumford and Sons....

Chiefs side to face Gloucester

Authored by News Desk
Posted: Fri, 10/07/2016 - 2:58pm

Rob Baxter says it’s only right that the pressure is heaped on his Exeter Chiefs side every time they take to the field at Sandy Park.

Having lost only once on home soil last season - that was to eventual English and European champions Saracens - Baxter is keen for his team to create another solid home foundation from which they look to attack on all fronts.

Already this season Saracens again showed how he could be done, winning 34-13 in Devon last month, but a week later the Chiefs were back on song, seeing off Harlequins with a five-try blast in their 36-25 success....

Zero tolerance to hate crime launches in Devon

Authored by News Desk
Posted: Fri, 10/07/2016 - 8:08am

Zero tolerance to hate crime is the strong message at the core of the new anti-hate crime campaign being launched across Devon during this year’s national hate crime awareness week, which runs from 8th to 15th October.

The message is loud and clear: all forms of hate crime are completely unacceptable and will be dealt with robustly. Together with Devon & Cornwall Police, partner agencies and community leaders across Devon are working to prevent hate crime, support victims and deal with the perpetrators in the most appropriate manner.

The definition of hate crime as...

Councillors back plans for redevelopment of Exeter bus station

Plans for the multi-million pound redevelopment of Exeter bus station have been approved by councillors. At a special meeting on Wednesday evening members of Exeter City Council’s planning committee backed applications to create a state-of-the art new leisure complex and a new bus station at the site. Both schemes are being funded by the city council. Work is expected to begin next spring and the new developments are expected to open in the winter of 2018. Speaking after the meeting Cllr Phil Bialyk, lead councillor for the redevelopment, welcomed the completion of the planning process and...

£100,000 funding to roll-out Community Road Warden scheme countywide

Authored by News Desk
Posted: Thu, 10/06/2016 - 5:24pm

Devon County Council is committing more than £100,000 to its Community Road Warden scheme as it extends the roll-out of the initiative.

As part of a pilot in five parishes and towns across Devon earlier this year, trained volunteers repaired almost 200 minor potholes. The County Council supplied Road Wardens in Bradford and Cookbury, Broadclyst, Clyst Hydon, Plymtree, and Sidmouth, with a simple-to-use pothole repair material, Instarmac, to patch up small potholes in their parishes and towns.

Community Road Wardens can act as their town or parish’s primary point of contact...

Appeal after opportunistic burglary

Authored by News Desk
Posted: Thu, 10/06/2016 - 4:33pm

Police are investigating a burglary which took place at a flat on Queen Street, Dawlish, between 10pm and 10.15pm on Friday 30 September 2016.

The suspects entered the property through an insecure door and stole a brown bag, similar to the one pictured, and contents from the kitchen table.

The flat was occupied at the time of the incident and it is not believed that the suspects ventured further into the flat.

The bag contained a pair of Specsavers glasses in a black case, a body fragrance, a red and white bandana and miscellaneous paperwork.

Detective...

RAMM shortlisted for dementia-friendly award

Exeter’s Royal Albert Memorial Museum & Art Gallery (RAMM) has reached the finals of the Alzheimer’s Society’s Dementia-Friendly Awards 2016.

The museum is one of three finalists in the Dementia Partnership of the Year in recognition of its work with Devon Partnership NHS Trust’s Franklyn Hospital.

The partnership has raised staff awareness and skill levels and generated new museum activities for people living with dementia.

The museum now offers dementia-friendly tours, behind-the-scenes visits to handle museum objects, and art activities for people with...

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