Browne Jacobson announces record senior associate promotions 

Authored by Sam Richards
Posted: Tue, 03/10/2020 - 10:22pm

Browne Jacobson has announced a record 22 promotions to senior associate.

The promotions cut across all five of the firm’s offices with 12 in Nottingham, 5 in Manchester, 2 each in Birmingham and London and 1 in Exeter.

The promotions will take effect from 1st May 2020 and will bring the total number of senior associates at the firm to 124.

Richard Medd, Managing Partner-Elect at Browne Jacobson, said:

“All 22 of these promotions are fully deserved and underlie the wealth of talent we have across all our key specialisms and in every office. They all have...

Sport is for Everyone! QE's Partner Primaries put through their Paces

The Crediton Sports Partnership has kicked off 2020 energetically, delivering a smorgasbord of sport to its partner primary schools, through their successful primary sports and leadership program.

On the menu, since Christmas, has been Gymnastics for Years 3 & 4, Multi-Skills for Years 1 & 2 and a Gifted and Talented session for Years 5 & 6, supported by the extremely professional Year 9 QE Sports Leaders.

First up this year was the Gymnastics Festival! The aims of the festival are to expand gymnastics knowledge and develop skills levels, to offer ideas to...

Yu-Gi-Oh! Trading Card Game - The Basics of Playing

Authored by David Banks
Posted: Tue, 03/10/2020 - 5:34pm

The evolution of games over the years has been quite fascinating. You have so many different options to choose from, and each offers quite an entertaining and unique experience. Video games alone offer a wild variety of catering to different tastes and preferences. It is card games, though, that have seen the most remarkable evolution with time.

While you have newer ones like ‘Cards Against Humanity,’ it is games like Yu-Gi-Oh that really take things to the next level. You might have read the manga series or watched the anime, and even if you didn’t, this is quite an interesting...

Music lineup for the Exeter Festival of South West Food & Drink revealed

Authored by Mary Youlden
Posted: Tue, 03/10/2020 - 12:04pm

The foodie heaven celebration that is the Exeter Festival of South West Food & Drink returns this May 8th - 10th and this year is bringing the best of the local music scene to Exeter along for this exciting annual event.

The festival kicks off for all VIP guests & press on Thursday 7th May, with the gates opening for general ticket holders on Friday 8th May - this year’s early May Bank Holiday, making it the perfect place to celebrate the historic VE Day. For their lowest ticket price yet festival-goers can enjoy the best food, drink and music from around the South West....

Fun for free in the digital age

Authored by David Banks
Posted: Tue, 03/10/2020 - 11:27am

Having recently taken stock of all our monthly subscriptions, we came to one unavoidable conclusion: we let our entertainment budget get away from us. It's a common mistake, and one we see all too often, in that many small subscription services add up to something big . Taking note of this, we decided on an experiment. What would happen if, just for a month, we let all of our entertainment subscriptions lapse, while we tried to get the most out of free offerings? Here’s what we found.

Television and Movies

As avid fans of Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon Prime Video, this was the area...

Music, Food, Drink and Shopping: Spring begins in Topsham

This event has been POSTPONED due to Coronavirus and will now take place on Saturday 26 September 2020. -------------------------------------

Spring isn’t just about daffodils and longer days – it’s also about one of the biggest events of the year in a glorious part of Devon.

Spring Forward Saturday on Saturday March 28 is a feel-good family-friendly day of music, shopping, food and drink taking place across the Exe estuary town of Topsham.

Almost all Topsham’s 50 shops, cafés and restaurants are involved with special offers for visitors and locals - one store...

How to stay fit in college

Are you getting anxious about every other pound you’ve gained since the start of this semester? If so, it may actually be a good thing. Taking late-night eating, drinking soda, and binge-watching TV in your free time into account, weight gain is the only expected outcome. Now is the right moment to make your body feel good and look fine. Here are a few realistic tips on what an average student can do to keep fit in college.

Put the right food in your fridge

The purpose of a diet is not to starve but to eat good food. A common misconception says that a diet only limits your eating...

New partnership will clamp down on fly tipping and litter

Authored by News Desk
Posted: Mon, 03/09/2020 - 10:07pm

Devon has launched a new multi-agency task force to combat fly tipping. Many of the county’s leading agencies will be working together in a crime-busting partnership known as the Clean Devon task force.

In a pioneering move designed to draw a line under fly tipping in Devon, Plymouth and Torbay, many of the county's leading agencies have come together to launch a new Clean Devon task force.

The partnership is sending a clear message to fly tippers that their behaviour will not be tolerated.

It brings together for the first time organisations from across Devon,...

Dr John Cooper Clark brings ome of his genius to Exeter

Dr John Cooper Clarke will bring his ‘Luckiest Guy Alive’ Tour to the Corn Exchange in Exeter this Spring for what will be an intimate evening of his singular poetry and ebullient chat.

Taking place on 29 March 2020, tickets for the show are on sale now here, priced from £25.00 (+BF). Support act to be announced in due course.

John Cooper Clarke shot to prominence in the 1970s as the original ‘people’s poet’. Since then his career has spanned cultures, audiences, art forms and continents - a lifelong craft most recently embodied in his book of poetry The Luckiest Guy Alive...

Perfect vacation spots in the US in 2020

Finding excellent vacation spots could be difficult if one is not familiar with some of the popular cities around the world. Are you planning a vacation? If yes, do you have a destination already? There are lots of suitable spots across the world, but finding them could be a problem if one does not get adequate information about these places. Before going on any trip, you should get adequate information about your proposed destination because failure to do this may lead to regrets. A lot of people find it difficult to get useful information online; some even believe that there is no...

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