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Exeter-based law firm achieves record breaking results

Porter Dodson, the South West-based UK Top 200 law firm, has announced a record-breaking year of growth and achievement, increasing revenue to £20.2m, while retaining the highly prestigious Gold Investors In People accreditation for the third successive time.

Across its Exeter, Sherborne, Poundbury, Bridport, Wellington, Taunton, and Yeovil offices, the firm has seen year-on-year growth of 15.5%, leading to a 25.4% leap in net profit.

These impressive results round off a year in which the firm has achieved significant headcount increases, made possible in part by the...

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Exeter event offers an insight into apprenticeships

The Ofsted Grade 1 National Apprenticeship Providers have organised a number of Apprenticeship open days across the country which are due to take place throughout National Apprenticeship Week.

The events, which have been named as ‘Apprentice Insight Evenings’, will be a celebration of Apprenticeships and the impact they can have in the local area.

On 16th March, the Exeter academy will play host to both employers and young people from the local area who are considering the Apprenticeship route and will offer them an ‘insight’ into the world of Apprenticeships.

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Funding to improve public access to Dartmoor hay meadows

Devon Wildlife Trust is today celebrating the news that it has received a £13,340.00 funding award from SITA Trust for its project "Meadows for Everyone". Hay meadows are one of England’s rarest habitats. On Dartmoor, after many years of decline, there are now hopes that these spectacularly colourful landscape features could be on the verge of a real renaissance. A Heritage Lottery Fund project is promoting better management for surviving meadows, and a number of owners are cooperating to establish new flowering grasslands on private land. The Meadows for Everyone project will complement...

Reading Between the Lines, with Exeter, Mid & East Devon Samaritans

Samaritans volunteers in Exeter, Mid and East Devon have launched a new campaign called We Listen, letting people know they can call Samaritans whatever they’re going through.

Posters in local railway stations really do allow the public to read between the lines because they contain hidden messages where people claiming to be fine are not OK at all.

One says ‘I’m alright with being single I guess. It’s not ideal for the kids, but they seem to be coping’ - the real message being, ‘I’m not coping’.

Supported by Network Rail, the campaign aims to show that while it’s...

Baxter praises all-round team effort

Head coach Rob Baxter hailed his Exeter Chiefs side as they saw off local rivals Bath Rugby to close the gap on leaders Saracens at the top of the Aviva Premiership.

Fresh from victory away to London Irish the week previous, the Devon club pocketed only their second-ever league win against Bath at a packed out Sandy Park.

Skipper Gareth Steenson was the chief architect of the home side’s 26-17 win, plundering four penalties and also converting tries for Ian Whitten and Kai Horstmann. The Irishman’s 16-point haul took him to 1,000 top flight points and edged him ever closer...

Refugee stories set to come alive at TEDxExeter

The reality of life for refugees fleeing the conflict in Syria will come vividly to life when award-winning photographer Giles Duley shows his pictures and tells the stories behind them at this year’s TEDxExeter.

Duley, who lost three limbs and nearly his life in 2011 when working in Afghanistan, is an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society. He started out as a fashion and music photographer photographing such nineties icons as Oasis, The Prodigy and Pulp.

Disillusioned with celebrity culture, he discovered that he could use his craft to tell the stories of those...

£150,000 to be won across ITV West Country West

The Big Lottery Fund, ITV and The National Lottery have teamed up to give the UK public the chance to decide how £3 million of Big Lottery funding will make a difference in their local area.

Five projects have been shortlisted in ITV West Country West to take part in a TV competition where the three with the most public votes will receive grants of up to £50,000. Voting opens today at 9am thepeoplesprojects.org.uk.

The Big Lottery Fund wanted to celebrate some of the incredible projects it has funded and has worked with ITV to shortlist 95 projects across the UK. Projects...

Work in retail? Why your job could be at risk

One of the UK's largest employers, the retail sector, is facing the loss of up to 900,000 jobs and the closure of thousands of shops in the next decade.

Of the 270,000 shops in the UK today, up to 74,000 could shut, a report claims.

Sir Charlie Mayfield, chairman of the British Retail Consortium (BRC) and head of the John Lewis Partnership, said that although retailers supported the introduction of higher pay, there would be an effect on employment.

The retail sector employs three million people - a number that could fall by nearly a third in less than a decade....

Are we heading for a White Easter?

If you think we've escaped a proper winter so far in 2016, you could be in for a shock.

The Met Office is warning that we might be in for a White Easter.

It's all due to what is called a sudden stratospheric warming event bringing snow, ice and temperatures as low as -14C.

The plunge - the same phenomenon that triggered the 2010 Big Freeze - is expected to result in colder-than-average weather across the UK in late March.

The Met Office March to May forecast said: "The greatest risk of cold weather impacts is in late March and early April, due to the...

Exeter Chiefs 26 Bath Rugby 17

Exeter’s master marksman Gareth Steenson fired the necessary shots as the Chiefs gained revenge for their opening day loss to local rivals Bath Rugby by winning the return match-up at Sandy Park.

The Devon club cemented their place within the top two of the Aviva Premiership with a hard fought victory that saw Ian Whitten and Kai Horstmann cross for tries, while fly-half Steenson landed four penalties and two conversions.

Steenson’s 16-point haul not only edged him ever closer to Tony Yapp’s all-time club scoring record, but it put him on 1,000 Premiership points in his...

Latest round of Community Impact Support Scheme funding opens

Applications are being welcomed for the latest round of business support funding for local communities.

Community organisations, social enterprise and voluntary sector groups are being invited to apply for Community Impact Support Scheme (CISS) funding. Online expressions of interest can be made until Sunday 6 March at https://new.devon.gov.uk/communities/ciss .

Funding ranging from £10,000 to £50,000 is available through the scheme which is run by Devon County Council in partnership with district councils and with support from key stakeholders, including Dartington School...

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Exeter-based law firm achieves record breaking results

Exeter event offers an insight into apprenticeships

Funding to improve public access to Dartmoor hay meadows

Reading Between the Lines, with Exeter, Mid & East Devon Samaritans

Baxter praises all-round team effort

Refugee stories set to come alive at TEDxExeter

£150,000 to be won across ITV West Country West

Work in retail? Why your job could be at risk

Are we heading for a White Easter?

Exeter Chiefs 26 Bath Rugby 17

Latest round of Community Impact Support Scheme funding opens

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