Choccie Bar is celebrating with chocolate frappé as the company has become a finalist for 'New Business of the Year Award' in the NatWest Venus Business Awards 2013.
Choccie Bar, still in its first year of trading, was nominated in March for this award, sponsored by Hartnell Chanot & Partners Family Solicitors and has just learned that out of nearly 100 companies that were nominated, Choccie Bar has made it to the final three.
Based in Broadclyst, Choccie Bar creates stunning luxury handmade chocolates. Using the finest Belgian couverture, the company is fast gaining a...
The school holidays are about to trigger the start of the busy summer getaway period for Exeter Airport and up to 25,000 passengers will be travelling through the terminal in the next seven days.
The week will see 12,500 passengers using the airport on variety of routes from the Isles of Scilly to as far away as Sharm el Sheikh.
South West flights from Exeter to St. Marys have increased to five a day and over the summer 11,000 passengers will use the service.
The holiday operator Thomson, which has a based Boeing 737-800 aircraft at Exeter, has a busy schedule which...
Twenty companies and apprentices will represent the wealth of Apprenticeship talent across the South West after being short-listed for the regional heat of the prestigious National Apprenticeship Awards 2013.
Exeter’s own Donna Yarwood is just one of the apprentices taking part. She has been shortlisted for Higher Apprentice of the Year.
The awards, which are now in their 10th year, celebrate the work of the country’s most talented apprentices and apprenticeship employers. An awards ceremony is to be held at the Holiday Inn in Taunton on the 18th September to announce the...
Shortlisted from 105 entries, an artwork developed for an exhibition at RAMM has won an international linocut prize.
Exeter-based artist Volkhardt Müller adapted 12 little plastic TVs with musical clockwork to play finely carved miniature lino cuts on a perpetual roll for the Witness Box display in the exhibition, Any High Street. More of Volkhardt’s work can be seen in the current display at RAMM by Devon-based artist collective Blind Ditch: This City’s Centre.
Volkhardt is thrilled that the 12 scenes of contemporary Exeter have gained international recognition “I was...
Fire crews from Exmouth have been called to two separate incidents in the last few days involving disposable barbecues being placed in plastic bins when they were still hot.
In the early hours of 22 July, crews were called to Exmouth Cricket Club, Queens Drive, after reports of a fire on the outside of the building. The fire damaged part of the tea rooms and crews were able to stop the fire spreading further into the building.
Investigations found that a disposable barbecue had been placed in a bin while still hot and, over a period of time, had burnt through the bin and...
With the summer holidays upon us, motorists are being reminded of the dangers faced by road workers who carry out vital improvements and maintenance on our roads - in particular on the new A380 South Devon Link Road.
Emergency Services, Local Authority Road Safety Teams and Contractors Galliford Try are urging drivers to take extra care at road works in a bid to cut deaths and injuries of road workers.
Since 2010, eight road workers have been killed whilst improving and maintaining the road network in England – and around 2,200 road accidents where people are injured occur...
ATASS Respect, the not-for-profit enterprise of Exeter-based research and investment company ATASS Group, has today announced its annual corporate social responsibility (CSR) conference will take place on Thursday 17 October at Woodbury Park Golf and Country Club.
Entitled 'Think Partnership 2013', the conference will bring together companies from across the region to discuss how businesses can be more society-friendly, by working with community and charitable enterprises for mutual benefit.
Following on from the success of last year’s conference, the event will...
Topsham-based commercial photographer and published poet, Meia Allegranza, is launching a Poetography Exhibition on 1 August 2013 in Topsham’s The Café.
The exhibition, called “Poetography for the All Generations”, will showcase Meia’s two passions, photography and poetry, as she brings together 14 of her favourite Photos and poems.
The exhibition, which will be free to attend, will run from 1-31 August during The Café’s opening hours 10am–4.30pm.
This is Meia’s first solo exhibition, and has been inspired by her life, news events, the sights and sounds of Devon,...
Exeter’s Fun Kitchen cooking school has announced the search for the next young celebrity TV chefs, for a new Saturday Kitchen spinoff TV series to show off their culinary skills and passion for food.
Fun Kitchen is teaming up with Cactus TV, makers of BBC One's hugely popular live cooking show Saturday Kitchen , The Roux Dynasty and The Hairy Bikers’ Food Tour , to find the best junior cooks from the South West to impress TV viewers with their cooking talents.
The brand new Saturday morning children’s cookery show, to be aired on ITV1 in September, will see budding young...
