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Greendale appoints three new members to board of directors

The Greendale Group (FWS Carter & Sons), a diverse, family-owned local business, with interests in farming, fishing, retail, property and haulage, has announced the appointment of three new members to its Board of Directors: Martyn Youell, Tom Chanter and Richard Gibbons.

ffective immediately, these appointments will provide extra strength and stability to the board, helping to shape the business for years to come.

Youell brings over 15 years of experience in the fishing sector. As Commercial Director for Waterdance (the Group’s fishing enterprise), he has...

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New buses for Exeter Park and Ride

Stagecoach South West today confirmed that it will be launching a new fleet of buses for its busiest Park & Ride route in Exeter.

Starting from 4th January 2016 the Red Honiton Road Park & Ride will have a fleet of four brand new double decker buses, worth £800,000, all of which will feature free Wi-Fi, allowing customers to connect, share and play on the move. The Red Park and Ride route runs from Honiton Road to the city centre up to every 12 minutes, 7 days a week.

Stagecoach will retain its existing fleet of single decker buses used on the Blue (Sowton) and...

Samaritans offer listening ear over Christmas

Volunteers at the local Exeter-based branch of Samaritans will be on duty across all of Christmas and New Year for anyone who needs someone to listen.

“We know that Christmas isn’t a happy time for everyone. Some people - particularly those on their own, and especially men - find the festive season very difficult” admits Helen Crossfield, director of Exeter, Mid and East Devon branch of Samaritans.

Samaritans volunteers will be available around the clock for anyone who needs to talk, in confidence, about whatever is causing them distress. That applies on Christmas Day,...

Hospiscare welcomes new guidelines

Exeter Hospiscare has reassured terminally ill people that its doctors and nurses provide individual and specialist care and do not follow a tick box approach.

The local charity spoke out after the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) said end-of-life care in England must be tailored to the needs of dying patients rather than a "tick-box approach.”

NICE issued a new framework for healthcare professionals to provide people with the best possible care in their last days of life and said patients must be treated with respect and compassion.

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Exeter part of £10m investment for new centres to tackle life-threatening diseases

The University of Exeter will pioneer new methods for managing and treating chronic health conditions at a ground-breaking new maths-based research centre, it has been announced.

The new centre, led by Professor John Terry from the College of Engineering, Mathematics and Physical Sciences, aims to revolutionise the diagnosis and prognosis of a range of common chronic health conditions.

The Centre is one of five across the UK launched by Life Sciences Minister George Freeman today (16 December) and which will receive part of a £10 million total investment by the Engineering...

Carpet cleaner sentenced for fraud

A trader who travelled the country offering to clean householders' carpets for rock-bottom prices before hiking his charges by up to 5,400 per cent, has been sentenced for seven offences.

Last month, just before a three day trial was scheduled to start, Mark Dudley of Humber Road, Ferndown, changed his pleas to guilty on four offences under the Fraud Act and three offences under the Consumer Protection from Unfair Trading Regulations.

This week Mr Dudley has been sentenced to eight weeks imprisonment, suspended for two years, and also to do 180 hours Community Service....

Missing Devon teenager found

A 15-year-old girl who had been reported missing from Devon has been found safe and well.

Police had appealed for information about Abbie Grant, who had last been seen in the High Street area of Exeter on Tuesday 8 December.

Police have thanked the public for their help.

Nowell prepares for French backlash

Exeter Chiefs star Jack Nowell says he and his team-mates are expecting much tougher resistance from French rivals ASM Clermont-Auvergne when the two lock horns again this Sunday in the European Champions Cup.

Fresh from seeing off last season's beaten finalists 31-14 at Sandy Park last weekend, the high flying Devonians go head-to-head with the same opponents this weekend at the imposing Stade Marcel Michelin.

Cornishman Nowell knows from past experience that French teams on their own patch are a much different proposition and is expecting a backlash of sorts from the...

Councils continue to count the cost of contaminated recycling this Christmas

UK councils are continuing to count the cost of contamination this Christmas. That was the message from Chris Jonas, Director of Business Development at Viridor - one of the UK's largest recyclers.

Against a backdrop of local authority consultations on responses to austerity, Viridor has called on councils to act, following best practice in the UK's top performing authorities to avoid unnecessary and undesirable public sector spending on contamination.

Mr Jonas spoke following the announcement by DEFRA on 1st December of England's top ten recycling authorities.

Mr...

MEP visits Exe Valley Brewery

Supporting the South West’s craft brewers has been shown to be high on the agenda for Clare Moody MEP following her visit to Exe Valley Brewery in Devon.

The MEP for the South West and Gibraltar was shown around the brewery by Guy Sheppard, Chairman of The Society of Independent Brewers (SIBA), one of many brewers involved in running the not-for-profit trade organisation, who represent Britain’s independent craft brewers.

Clare Moody MEP had this to say on the importance of supporting Britain’s growing number of craft brewers,

“It was fantastic to be given a tour of...

Exeter schoolchildren to get free vision screening

Radical new online vision screening software is being provided free of charge to all schools in Exeter, following a study revealing that millions of UK children under the age of 12 have never had an eye test.

The three-minute screening test, developed by optometrists and vision scientists at City University London, has been shown to detect the most common eye problems among children and will be available nationwide from this week.

Through funding by Specsavers, the software, which has been designed to be operated by teachers and other school staff or volunteers, is being...

Business Daily

Greendale appoints three new members to board of directors

New buses for Exeter Park and Ride

Samaritans offer listening ear over Christmas

Hospiscare welcomes new guidelines

Exeter part of £10m investment for new centres to tackle life-threatening diseases

Carpet cleaner sentenced for fraud

Missing Devon teenager found

Nowell prepares for French backlash

Councils continue to count the cost of contaminated recycling this Christmas

MEP visits Exe Valley Brewery

Exeter schoolchildren to get free vision screening

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