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Exeter announces its bid to become the UK’s City of Culture in 2029 

Exeter City Council has today announced it will be submitting an expression of interest (EOI) for the prestigious UK City of Culture title. 

The City of Culture bid follows the culmination of five months extensive engagement and consultation with artists, creatives, cultural organisations and residents to shape the council’s commissioned new five-year Cultural Strategy for Exeter.

This will set out a clear ambition to become a leading city of culture. The new Exeter Culture Strategy is ambitious and will be delivered in partnership with the city’s cultural organisations...

Law firm gets trainee seal of approval

A law firm in Exeter has been rated by its trainees as one of the friendliest in the whole country as well as offering excellent work/life balance and high overall job satisfaction, according to an influential national student guide. The Lex 100 guide for 2014/15 is based on responses from over 3,000 trainee solicitors at 165 of the UK’s largest law firms. Based solely on their responses, it allows trainees to give candid comments about their firms. Stephens Scown LLP was ranked second in the country for friendliness and came in the top ten in a further five categories: work/life balance,...

Working families to be hit by housing support freeze

Housing charity Shelter has revealed the potentially devastating impact of government plans to freeze housing benefit for private renters, with new research showing just under 36,000 working families in the South West could be affected.

Housing benefit helps families on lower incomes to pay their rent, and is already restricted to cover rents in the cheapest third of privately rented homes. The freeze, which comes into force next April, will see housing benefit frozen at its current level until 2020.

Worryingly, this comes at a time when private rents are climbing,...

Top tips to say safe online

Authored by News Desk
Posted: Mon, 10/19/2015 - 2:23pm

Is there any way to stop the rise in fraud and online crime?

As the latest results of the Crime Survey for England and Wales are released, the Neighbourhood & Home Watch Network (NHWN) looks at how you can avoid becoming a victim.

“People are becoming more aware that they need to protect themselves, but are often still not taking some quite simple steps,” says NHWN Chairman Jim Maddan OBE. “That’s why we’re supporting Get Safe Online week, which starts on Monday – to help spread the word about online security. People often think you need to be a ‘tech wizard’ to be...

Ashwoods Lightfoot® launches driver behaviour device into car fleet market

Exeter-based Ashwoods Lightfoot, the UK’s leading provider of in-cab driver efficiency systems for commercial van fleet operators, has today announced that it will be launching Lightfoot® to the car fleet sector, providing a proven and cost-effective solution to improving driver behaviour that reduces fuel costs, wear and tear, CO2 and accidents.

Its revolutionary in-cab driver behaviour device has successfully helped van fleet managers cut fuel bills by up to 20% whilst reducing accidents by as much as 60%. Recent trials on car fleets have shown similar benefits.

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Thousands take part in GWR: PICS

Authored by Mary Youlden
Posted: Mon, 10/19/2015 - 10:44am

Four-time Olympian runner and European 10,000 metre champion Jo Pavey delighted crowds in Exeter on Sunday morning, as she started 2,842 participants off on the iconic 31st Exeter’s Great West Run, sponsored by Tozers! Shaun Antell from Bideford AAC improved on his third place from last years race, by taking the winning spot in one hour ten minutes and seven seconds, in good running conditions. In second place was Berihu Hadera from Exeter Harriers in one hour ten minutes and fifty two seconds, followed by Andrew Chambers in one hour ten minutes and fifty five seconds. Best women's...

Sea wall sponsored walk a great success

Authored by Mary Youlden
Posted: Mon, 10/19/2015 - 10:33am

The Devon and Cornwall Rail Partnership organised a successful sponsored walk on Saturday 10th October to celebrate the reopening of the sea wall for walkers and raise around £1,000 for good causes in Teignmouth and Dawlish.

Teignmouth and Dawlish Ramblers led the 40 walkers who included local councillors, Dawlish and Teignmouth Walk this Way, the Friends of Dawlish and Teignmouth Stations, Dawlish Solidarity for Refugees and a representative of Network Rail’s ‘Orange Army’.

The walkers were welcomed at the Strand Centre in Dawlish by MP Anne Marie Morris, Howard Almond,...

Are children too old to adopt at 4?

As part of this year’s National Adoption Week (19 – 25 October) campaign, Adopt South West is asking people to consider adopting an older child as they pose the question “Too old at four?”

Due to the high demand for babies, older children waiting to be adopted are often likely to be over looked as well as those in sibling groups and children with disabilities.

During National Adoption Week 2015, Adopt South West - a partnership of adoption agencies across the region - including Barnardo’s, Devon County Council, Families for Children, Plymouth City Council and Torbay Council...

Jim Lewis remembers legendary Best Mate

Authored by Mary Youlden
Posted: Sun, 10/18/2015 - 12:41pm

The legendary racehorse Best Mate will be remembered at Exeter Racecourse next Tuesday when a beginners’ chase is staged in his name.

His owner Jim Lewis will make his annual pilgrimage to the course to present the prize to the winning owners of the race and to lay a wreath in his memory. Best Mate was widely regarded as the ‘people’s horse,’ his popularity reaching beyond racecourses and stretching out to every corner of the land. Three Cheltenham Gold Cup wins and two victories in the Haldon Gold Cup were among his many successes during a glittering career when he lit up...

Divorces: full financial disclosure needed

Authored by Mary Youlden
Posted: Sun, 10/18/2015 - 12:39pm

Two Supreme Court rulings on the 14th October have reiterated the need for full and frank disclosure of financial circumstances and assets in divorce cases, a leading South West law firm says. The two cases concerned women who said that their husbands had not revealed the full extent of their financial assets when their original divorce cases were settled. Both cases are now likely to return to the High Court. In one case, Alison Sharland accepted a settlement of £10 million and 30% of the shareholding in her husband’s business believing that to represent half of his wealth. However, when...

Chiefs slip to opening day defeat

Bath 19 Exeter Chiefs 17 - Match report

George Ford put the disappointment of England’s turgid Rugby World Cup campaign firmly behind him as his return to club colours helped Bath kick-off the new Aviva Premiership season with a narrow victory over Exeter Chiefs.

The England playmaker’s 14-point haul – including a penalty two minutes from time – proved the key difference in a tight affair at the Recreation Ground. Ford edged out opposite number Gareth Steenson in the game’s key kicking duel and he was part and parcel of Bath’s one and only try, scored in the first half...

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