BGF, the UK and Ireland’s most active investor in growing businesses, has experienced a year of growth across its South West portfolio in 2019, having invested £165m to date to support the region’s most ambitious entrepreneurs. This includes new investments in Equilaw and Off-Piste Wines.
With Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) criteria high on the agenda, 2019 saw Exeter-based Lightfoot, the connected car technology company, endorsed by The University of Bath for its reduction of CO2, NOx and particulate emissions by 10-20%. Described as the ‘Fitbit for cars’ and backed by...
Exeter-based law firm Tozers is celebrating after one of its specialist teams clinched a top national accolade in the latest LawNet Awards.
The practice has been presented with the overall Team of the Year trophy in LawNet's annual search for lawyers delivering exceptional performance to their clients.
Members were congratulated by judges at the recent awards ceremony hosted by LawNet, the national consortium of leading independent legal practitioners.
Tozers can trace its roots in Devon back to 1785, and today has a team of around 170 people at the firm's Exeter...
With the end of the year, the holidays, and resolutions come another annual facet of life - tax returns. while some people dread the work (or the outcome) of filing their taxes, it can be like a second Christmas for others.
Regardless, it's something we're all legally required to do. Are you ready for tax season this year? Check out our quick tax preparation checklist to see if you've taken care of everything you need!
Your Tax Preparation Checklist
1. Choose the Right Tax Preparer
Depending on how complicated your taxes are, you may want to hire a...
The first phase of a scheme to upgrade Moor Lane roundabout in Exeter will start next week (Monday 13 January).
The approach to the roundabout, from the direction of Sowton Industrial Estate, is being widened to create extra capacity with the addition of a fourth lane.
In order to provide the required space, earthwork and vegetation clearance on the embankment next to the road will need to be carried out, as well as the diversion of utility services.
This work will initially get underway during the daytime, starting on Monday (13 January).
Highly acclaimed journalist Martin Hesp has just taken the role of editorial director at RAW Food and Drink PR. The joining of forces of two food and drink media powerhouses will further position Devon based RAW as one of the country’s leading food and drink PR agencies.
Until the end of 2019, Martin worked for 20 years at the Western Morning News, first as senior feature writer then as editor-at-large. For the past eight years he also acted as food and drink editor producing a high profile double page spread each week which set out to highlight the most interesting food-based...
The National Trust will be lighting beacons across the South West on Thursday 9 January as part of a national network of beacons to celebrate 125 years since the conservation charity was founded.
They will be lit at dawn to mark the moment that the charity was founded by Octavia Hill, Sir Robert Hunter and Canon Hardwicke Rawnsley to give people access to nature, to beauty and to history.
Locations where the beacons will be lit include Cornwall, Devon and Somerset. Chapel Carn Brea in Cornwall will be the most south westerly beacon lighting location in the UK, with beacons...
Seaton Beach, an innovative seafront development of eight luxury apartments at Seaton in Devon, built to Passivhaus standards, has won ‘Best Apartment Devon’ for the Penthouse and ‘Best Sustainable Residential Development in the UK’ in the International Property Awards and is also the first multi-block development in the UK to be certified as “Passivhaus Plus”.
Seaton Beach at East Walk is a stunning, contemporary four-storey development based in a seaside town on the South West coast of England, which is part of the Jurassic Coastline, designated as a UNESCO World Heritage Site...
Colleagues from Barratt Homes and David Wilson Homes have been swapping their day jobs for bin bags - by volunteering with Teignbridge District Council.
The finance team took to the beach at Dawlish Warren as part of a clean up event organised by the local council.
“Barratt Homes and David Wilson Homes offer staff the opportunity for time away from their day jobs to take part in some local volunteering - and our finance team wanted to do something that would benefit local communities,” said Matthew Bennett, finance director.
Getting into law school can be incredibly tough in the first place. Once you have your place secured, you can start to focus on getting the most out of your experience. You will likely already have an idea about the difficulties you will face; however for most people, it can be even harder than they imagined. Many people don't even make it through the first year , which shows just how intense law school can be. It is designed to be competitive, rigorous, and incredibly stressful. Only the best students and hardest working ones will be able to come out on top and live out their dreams of...
Plastic surgery has been a topic of conversation for decades. Now that more and more new procedures are less invasive and sometimes less expensive, more people than ever are going under the knife in order to make little tweaks on their bodies and faces.
Especially in the age of social media, people are taking their look and their brand more seriously. With so many of us in the “public eye,” with or without celebrity, plastic surgery has become a fairly quick way to experiment with our looks. While plastic surgery was a bit more of a taboo years ago, it’s now more accepted in the...
