Some of Devon’s best upcoming design talent is being given the opportunity to hone their skills and supply first rate work to top firms across the country, thanks to a pioneering scheme set up by Plymouth Science Park based company, Logo Creative Partners.
The team is currently in the process of expanding its portfolio at the 25 acre Derriford site. They’ve launched DoMoreDesign.com in conjunction with Plymouth City Council. The aim of the project is to encourage students to undertake design work for companies.
The scheme takes the form of a competition which allows a...
One of a pair of convicted rogue builders has been ordered to pay back more than £11,000 of his illegal earnings.
John Carroll, 26, of Cricklade, who is serving 38-months in prison for fraud, and Swansea’s John Rice, 21, who has served a 12 week sentence for money laundering had conned a string of victims in South West England and Wales. At a hearing Judge Graham Cottle ruled that Rice had earned £28,950 by laundering Carroll’s illegal proceeds and ordered him to repay what remained in his possession, £11,650, which will go to his victims.
A local digital marketing agency has celebrated its fourth birthday after another year of record breaking growth.
MiHi Digital, which was created from a one-bedroom flat on the Exeter Quayside by online marketing specialist Mark Worden in 2013, has grown by more than 30% over the past twelve months, winning 62 new clients and launching 42 websites.
Director of MiHi Digital, Mark Worden said “They say that the first two years in business are the hardest, so it’s an incredibly proud moment for us to pass our fourth anniversary and still be growing at an exponential rate. We’...
The sexual health teams at The Centre in Exeter and Barnstaple, part of Northern Devon Healthcare NHS Trust, are taking part in National HIV Testing Week, which runs from 18-25 November 2017. The theme for this year’s National HIV Testing Week is ‘Give HIV the finger’, which promotes the quick and easy finger-prick HIV test. From 20–24 November, The Centre’s sexual health clinics in Exeter and Barnstaple are offering a free, confidential, no-questions-asked finger-prick HIV test. Abbey Eboigbe, nurse adviser for The Centre in Exeter, said: “National HIV Testing Week gives us the...
With their high population of super-smart students, it might come as no surprise that Oxford and Cambridge hold the top two positions when it comes to being the most fit and active cities in the UK. However, Exeter is in a solid third position, and local councillor Phil Bialyk is determined that the city should not rest – quite literally – until it has achieved the top spot.
Mentally and physically fit in the online age
Exeter has become a hotbed for entrepreneurship and new business creation in the digital age, and the University of Exeter’s acclaimed MBA programme has...
A Diabetes expert is recruiting hundreds of people with a recent diagnosis of the disease to an ongoing clinical trial.
This World Diabetes Day, Dr Angus Jones is looking for people who were diagnosed with diabetes in the last year to participate in a clinical trial, with the long-term aim of improving diagnostic accuracy.
World Diabetes Day is organised by the International Diabetes Federation, and aims to bring attention to important issues in the Diabetes community. An estimated 4.5 million people are living with Diabetes in the UK alone.
YMCA Exeter’s 8th annual Santa Abseil from Princesshay car park returns once again on Saturday 9th December.
Dressed in Santa suits, local people of Exeter, from amateurs to abseiling veterans, will be challenged to take on the 100ft abseil down Princesshay car park to raise funds and awareness for youth homelessness over the festive season.
With the aim for each volunteer to raise £150, these essential funds will help to support those transitioning from vulnerable accommodation into their new home at YMCA Exeter. Every year the charity provide Support Accommodation for...
Swimming spots in Teignbridge have all reached ‘excellent’ bathing water quality standards.
Visitors to Teignbridge will be able to enjoy swimming in cleaner water than ever before thanks to huge strides made to improve water quality.
Teignbridge has welcomed the 2017 results of water testing at more than 400 outdoor swimming spots in England – called bathing waters - published today by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra).
This is great news for beach-goers and a major success for Teignmouth Town Beach which has improved from ‘sufficient’...
The Poppies: WAVE on the Commonwealth War Graves Commission’s Plymouth Naval Memorial, will be dismantled this Sunday evening, so anyone wishing to see it before it leaves the town should arrive at the display by 5.30pm on Sunday November 19 before it is dismantled for its next destination next year.
Since its arrival in August, there have been nearly 500,000 visitors at the CWGC Plymouth Naval Memorial to view the spectacular ceramic flowers, with more than 240 volunteers trained by the Commission on hand to show visitors around.
Ten children from Year 6 at Broadclyst Community Primary School helped to devise and record their own radio advert for the school’s open days at Global Radio HQ in Exeter on 3 November.
The youngsters are currently taking part in the school’s Global Enterprise Challenge, an annual business enterprise initiative that incorporates a wide range of business skills while encompassing many different elements of the school curriculum. The trip to the Heart Devon radio studios allowed them to learn more about business advertising and marketing as well as to produce the school advert....
