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Westcotts marks 40 years of supporting South West businesses

Westcotts, one of the South West’s leading firms of Chartered Accountants and Business Advisers, has celebrated its 40th anniversary - marking four decades of providing trusted advice and specialist expertise to individuals, SMEs and organisations across the region.

Founded in Honiton in 1985 by Richard Thomas, Westcotts has grown from a single office into the major regional firm it is today - with a team of more than 300 working across a network of offices across Devon, Somerset and now Wiltshire.

Throughout this period, the firm has maintained a strong commitment to...

Chiefs did us proud

Authored by Mark Stevens
Posted: Sat, 05/28/2016 - 11:34pm

In the end there was to be no fairytale ending for Exeter Chiefs, but boy did Rob Baxter’s side put up an unbelievable fight.

Pitted against European and defending Aviva Premiership champions Saracens, Devon’s finest picked themselves off the deck following a first half flooring to shock their rivals with a ferocious second half fightback.

In the end, the Chiefs didn’t have quite enough in the tank as their spirited challenge was finally ended late on by a try from man of the match Alex Goode.

Having trailed 23-6 at the break to first half tries from Duncan Taylor...

HSL Exeter celebrates first anniversary

The Exeter HSL store on Dunns Business Centre on Trusham Road is celebrating its first year anniversary this month, as the team celebrates its first year of business.

As the UK’s leading comfort furniture specialist, HSL, specialises in providing excellent customer service and providing comfortable back-care solutions that are tailored to customer’s needs.

The Exeter store has gone from strength to strength since its launch in May last year. It now employs three comfort specialists and is celebrating being named as one of HSL’s best performing stores of 2016.

The...

Graduate builds up to ‘Voice Off’ challenge

Authored by Mary Youlden
Posted: Sat, 05/28/2016 - 12:06pm

Kezia Barclay, a Graduate Engineer for Interserve Construction, has gallantly signed up to a new sponsored challenge for Exeter Royal Academy for Deaf Education.

In national Deaf Awareness Week earlier this month, Exeter Deaf Academy launched a new sponsored challenge called ‘Voice Off’.

This charity event aims to raise much needed funds as well as awareness of the one million Deaf young people across the UK who struggle to use or understand spoken language, as well as tackle some of the common misconceptions about deafness.

The challenge is to switch off your voice...

Exmouth & District Community Transport Group awarded £500 Bluebird Care Community Grant

Bluebird Care , an Exeter and East Devon based home care provider have awarded a grant of £500 to the Exmouth & District Community Transport Group (EDCTG) to support them in providing transport to the Exmouth Dementia Carers Support Group .

Bluebird Care has been working hard to support community groups across Exeter as well as providing a daily care service to local residents living in their own homes.

The award winning home care provider awarded the Community Grant to the EDCTG after receiving numerous applications for their £500 Grant from voluntary organisations...

Big day dawns for Exeter Chiefs

Authored by Mary Youlden
Posted: Sat, 05/28/2016 - 10:06am

Twitter and other social media platforms are already buzzing ahead of the Exeter Chiefs maasive game against Saracens at Twickenham this afternoon.

Thirty five coaches will be heading from the city to London in the next few hours with around 40,000 fans of the club expected to show their support for the Devon side.

If the Chiefs win they will be the Aviva Premiership champions. An amazing feat after just six years in the league.

The club shop has sold out of replica shirts after a mad rush to snap up merchandise.

Among the fans expressing their excitement...

Police advice ahead of the R1 Big Weekend

Authored by News Desk
Posted: Sat, 05/28/2016 - 7:14am

Revellers heading for Radio 1’s Big Weekend at Powderham Castle over this Bank Holiday are being urged to make their personal safety number one.

Around 50,000 music fans are expected to visit the Exeter venue on Saturday and Sunday to see some of today’s biggest chart acts perform live.

Planning for the event has been ongoing for several months with officers from the Op Candle command team working alongside event organisers, Teignbridge District Council, Exeter City Council, Devon County Council, British Transport Police and other emergency services to support the event....

Holiday park reveals £500,000 investment

AN East Devon caravan and camping park has received a major boost with an investment of more than half a million pounds.

And the Franks family, who own Oakdown Holiday Park, near Sidmouth, have plans for further improvements and development in the coming months.

The investment includes the addition of 10 new holiday units at the park, which overlooks the East Devon countryside. These luxurious units are let on a weekly basis - with many guests, some the third or fourth generation of the same family, returning annually.

The family has also installed solar panels,...

New play area for Bramble Ward kids!

Authored by News Desk
Posted: Fri, 05/27/2016 - 2:31pm

Children and young people staying in the RD&E’s Bramble Unit now have a completely revamped outside play area thanks to a massive fundraising drive by local people.

More than £32,000 has been raised since 2014. The Exeter Lions, who funded the original play area built in the mid-1980s, kick-started and then masterminded a fundraising campaign which was joined by the Exeter Foundation, bike riders from ‘ Otter Wheels’ , and backed up by other donations from a multitude of other generous individuals, including the children themselves.

The play area has been given a full...

Chiefs side to face Saracens

Authored by Mark Stevens
Posted: Fri, 05/27/2016 - 11:54am

The appearance of Exeter Chiefs in their first-ever Aviva Premiership final is not the end of the journey, but merely the start according to head coach Rob Baxter. The Devonians will head to the capital this week with a hearty travelling tribe of thousands looking to cement themselves as the undisputed champions of England. Standing in their way, however, will be a formidable Saracens side, who themselves will be bidding to reclaim the title they won 12 months ago against Bath at Twickenham – and adding it to the European crown they have already picked up just a fortnight ago. It will be a...

£1.9m pothole programme announced

Authored by News Desk
Posted: Fri, 05/27/2016 - 10:51am

Proposals to carry out £1.9 million of work to prevent potholes on Devon’s roads have been drawn up.

Devon County Council is preparing a programme of repairs using funding awarded from the Government’s Pothole Action Fund earlier this year.

Devon’s £1,952,000 share of the Pothole Action Fund is in addition to £41,155,000 of capital funding which the County Council has received from the Department for Transport.

Each County Council division area will receive at least £14,500 for repairs to ensure minor roads are repaired right across the county. Funding above that...

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