Sarah Daniel from RGB Building Supplies is celebrating after winning the Independent Rising Star of the Year Award at the prestigious BMJ Industry Awards 2019, her second national honour within the past seven months.
Organised by the Builders Merchants Journal, the awards celebrate the UK merchanting industry and highlight the businesses, brands and people that make the sector so successful. Sarah, 26, was presented with her award during a ceremonial lunch hosted by Natasha Kaplinsky OBE at The Brewery in London.
In October 2018, Sarah also received the Builders Merchants...
There are baby red ruffed lemurs at Paignton Zoo – and just look at them!
The charity zoo is a professional science and conservation body working internationally to help save these Critically Endangered primates – but sometimes all the serious stuff is pushed to one side by incredibly cute baby animals.
Head Keeper of Mammals Owen Taylor said: “When we were sure she was close to giving birth, we put some ropes up at the indoor viewing area to give her some additional privacy and the best opportunity of raising her offspring.”
Honiton’s independent auction house, Chilcotts Auctioneers is celebrating after a bumper sale.
Many auction lots achieved in excess of their estimates after a surge of interest in the June Fine Art, Antiques and Collectors Items sale.
Top performer was a lot comprising important WW2 medals and memorabilia, including the logbooks, photographs, training manuals and uniforms of Bomber Command pilot Group Captain Peter Casement. This achieved a hammer price of £21,000 against an upper estimate of £15,000.
A collection of vintage jewellery which Chilcotts marketed as The...
Today marks the one year countdown to the start of the RD&E’s MY CARE Programme - the single biggest clinical transformation programme ever undertaken at the Trust. This is also the first transformation of its type in the UK to be implemented across the acute hospital and community services.
MY CARE aims to fundamentally improve people’s experience of care at the RD&E (including members of the public, patients, carers and staff), by better connecting care between our hospitals, community clinics and the care people receive at home. It means that patients will be seen in the...
Over-55s at Millbrook Village retirement community take part in national 1,000 mile cycling challenge for MIND, with support of TV’s Julia Bradbury
Residents at Millbrook Village in Exeter are taking part in a national cycling challenge organised by Inspired Villages, the developer and operator of later living communities behind the retirement complex on Topsham Road. The Inspired 1,000 Mile Challenge sees a team of the company’s senior management take on a gruelling 500 mile cycle ride, starting at Millbrook Village, its most southerly village, on Monday 20 May and ending at its...
Property consultancy JLL has been appointed to market the new phase of development at the popular Edginswell Business Park in Torquay.
Following the success of the original site, the remaining six acres of Edginswell was purchased by Torbay Council in late 2018. Acting as developer, the authority can now provide leasehold buildings for a variety of uses.
JLL will market the greenfield development site to secure interest from potential occupiers including businesses locally and nationally.
The site benefits from an extant planning consent for an A1 bulky goods retail...
A unique campus based team of nurses working with university students to prevent mental health crisis has been shortlisted for a prestigious UK award.
The University of Exeter community mental health team, part of Devon Partnership NHS Trust, is a finalist in the Mental Health Nursing category of the RCNi Nurse Awards 2019. The profession’s top accolade for nursing excellence attracted almost 700 entries this year.
They will find out whether they have won at a ceremony in the Westminster Park Plaza hotel, London, on July 3. The RCN Nurse of the Year 2019, selected from all...
“Just how old are you Great Uncle Archie?” “As old as time and a bit before then” “….like eight in the morning?” “More like half past ten”
From the delightful storybook of The Makeshift Ensemble comes a new adventure through the deep blue. Discover the ancient song of the Sea Turtles as they guide us through shipwrecks and sea shells, to sing their song anew when the future of their underwater world is in peril from plastics and beasts of the deep! A tale to enchant listeners young and old, 'I am Turtle' is an enthralling delve into the great oceans to hear Turtle’s story and what...
Created by popular panto dame Robert Pearce: Mama G tells stories about being who you are and loving who you want, to children and their families (and anyone who’ll listen!)
She has spread her message all over the UK at libraries, theatres, museums and festivals, as well as making appearances in Canada (live on stage) and America (on screen.) - and she will be performing at Exeter Fringe Festival in July.
Mama G's Story Time Roadshow combines pantomime, drag and the traditional art of storytelling and is a fabulous mix of stories, songs and audience participation.
Hundreds of churches across Devon have taken part in ‘Thy Kingdom Come’, a national prayer event in recent weeks, which in the city included a large finale event at the Cathedral.
Now, an initiative based out of Rediscover Church in Exeter hopes to build upon that with what could be the county’s biggest ever prayer gathering.
Devon Awake takes place on Thursday 27th and Friday 28th June, 7.30pm nightly at Rediscover Church, Northernhay Street, Exeter, and seeks to encourage churches of all denominations from across the county to pray for Devon and all those who live and...
