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Oxygen Conservation and Burges Salmon seal £1 million partnership for 8,000 UK-based premium quality carbon credits

Leading natural capital asset manager Oxygen Conservation and independent UK law firm Burges Salmon have announced the signing of a landmark partnership valued at up to £1 million . As part of the agreement, Burges Salmon will be the exclusive buyer of up to 8,000 premium-quality, UK-based carbon credits which will be provided at £125 per tonne .

Funding one of the UK’s most ambitious nature restoration projects on the beautiful Leighon Estate in Dartmoor, Devon , the partnership demonstrates an important shift in how the voluntary carbon market operates - moving from...

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England Rugby star discovers relative is among Somme Fallen

ENGLAND and Exeter Chiefs rugby star Jack Nowell has discovered that a family member was among the soldiers who fell on the first day of the battle of the Somme and who will be commemorated in an astonishing centenary project this summer. The 19240 Shrouds of the Somme project aims to remember all 19,240 allied soldiers who died on 1st July 1916. Artist Rob Heard has created hand-stitched, shrouded figurines to represent every one of them and the installation will be unveiled on July 1st. Cornishman Jack discovered that his great, great Uncle Frank was among them at a charity dinner at the...

Warning over rogue traders offering driveway work

Police in Exeter and East Devon are warning residents about rogue traders, claiming to be from Devon County Council, who are offering to tarmac driveways.

A number of residents, some elderly, have been approached this week by a number of men with Birmingham accents.

They were dressed as builders in high visibility clothing and told residents that they had excess tarmac which they could use to tarmac driveways at a reduced rate.

Residents who have agreed to this have had very poor sub-standard or incomplete work carried out, and large amounts of money have been...

New Devon commander appointed

Devon and Cornwall Police has appointed Chief Superintendent Jim Colwell to lead frontline policing across the whole of Devon.

Rising from a bobby on the beat across Plymouth in 2001 to a member of the Force’s senior leaders, C Supt Colwell aims to sustain the professional standard of policing service across the county, as well as collaborate with partner agencies to assist community policing across the county.

C Supt Colwell joined the Force at a tender age of 27 after graduating from Leicester University with a Bachelor of Science degree in Mass Communications and...

Counting down to the Really Big Quiz!

Exeter chartered accountancy firm Simpkins Edwards is thrilled to welcome local businesses to take part in its 13th annual Really Big Quiz.

Last year the quiz raised a record-breaking sum of more than £8,000 for the Lord Mayor’s charity and plans are well underway to make this year’s event another charitable success.

Taking place at the Corn Exchange on Wednesday 11 May from 6.30pm, the annual Really Big Quiz is an opportunity for local firms to compete for the title of Exeter’s brainiest business and help raise funds for the Lord Mayor’s nominated charity, The Exeter...

Ideas from Exeter reach 69 countries at TEDxExeter

The fifth TEDxExeter conference was by far the biggest yet.

The local audience doubled in size compared with last year and the day reached audiences online as far away as Mongolia, Colombia, Lithuania and Korea as well as the United States, India, Germany, and Saudi Arabia

The event was streamed live from Exeter Northcott Theatre to more than 30 public and private viewing party venues in Exeter and the surrounding area with more groups gathering to watch in London, San Francisco, New York, Chicago and Mumbai.

In total the livestream was viewed more than 3,000 times...

Exeter firm shortlisted in National Recycling Awards

Exeter-based Devon Contract Waste, a leading provider of commercial waste management services in Devon and surrounding areas, has been shortlisted for the Resource Management Business of the Year award at this year’s National Recycling Awards. These awards recognise and highlight excellence and innovation throughout the recycling and resource management sector today.

Simon Almond, Managing Director at Devon Contract Waste commented: “We’re delighted to have reached this stage in the awards. To be recognised for driving new standards in commercial resource management with our Zero...

How enterprise programmes could benefit your business

Marian Weston from Young Enterprise UK focused her In a Nutshell video on explaining how enterprise programmes could be beneficial for businesses. She talks about how enterprise education is a joint enterprise between educational establishments and businesses and how such initiatives help make the business world relevant to the daily lives of young people.

'The benefits for businesses is that by sharing their skills/expertise with students, they are helping shape the future workforce, while inspiring and motivating employees’ professional development' Marian explains.

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The Devolution Revolution: Why Devon should embrace its potential

By Jon Roberts, regional lead partner for Grant Thornton’s public sector team in the South West

It has now become clear that the Government is very serious about devolution and wants to see more powers handed to the regions over the course of the current Parliament.

And, according to research by Grant Thornton, business leaders across the country are very much in favour of George Osborne’s so-called “devolution revolution”, with 95 per cent believing that devolving powers from Whitehall would bring real economic gains to places such as the South West.

There is no...

Toby's Garden Festival set for lift off

Toby Buckland’s Garden Festival returns to Powderham Castle with some of the country’s best plant specialists, gardening stars and plenty of delicious local food, craft, live music and fun.

Gardens come in all sizes and whether you have an acre or a window box, a bare square of earth or a shady spot, you can grow a beautiful garden. Let your creativity take root at Toby Buckland’s Garden Festival at Powderham Castle and soak up inspiration from amazing and colourful nurseries, demonstrations and gardening experts. Nowhere else in the South West can you find such diversity of...

Firm's foundations for success laid in Exeter

A national homebuilder is continuing to lay foundations for success in the South West with continued growth, and commitment to a long-term apprenticeship scheme. With regional offices already in the Midlands and the South East, Bovis Homes opened its Exeter office in 2013 with just six members of staff. Now, with more than 100 staff based in Exeter and its surrounding developments in locations like Cranbrook, Ottery St Mary, Dawlish and Teignmouth, the national homebuilder is expanding its apprenticeship scheme, firmly concreting its position in the South West with the promise of...

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Oxygen Conservation and Burges Salmon seal £1 million partnership for 8,000 UK-based premium quality carbon credits

England Rugby star discovers relative is among Somme Fallen

Warning over rogue traders offering driveway work

New Devon commander appointed

Counting down to the Really Big Quiz!

Ideas from Exeter reach 69 countries at TEDxExeter

Exeter firm shortlisted in National Recycling Awards

How enterprise programmes could benefit your business

The Devolution Revolution: Why Devon should embrace its potential

Toby's Garden Festival set for lift off

Firm's foundations for success laid in Exeter

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