Local singers and bands can win the opportunity to perform at the After Dark Party at Exeter Festival of South West Food & Drink in a competition being run by festival music partners, Mama Stones.
This year’s Festival runs from Friday 26 April - Sunday 28 April, with three fantastic Festival After Dark Party nights on 25, 26 and 27 April and marks the 10th anniversary of the event.
The winning acts will have the opportunity to support the Mama Stones House band at the Festival After Dark Party on the Saturday night, 27 April.
The Transport Workers Union of America (TWU) and the UK-based National Union of Rail, Maritime, and Transport Workers (RMT) announced today that both unions have agreed to a "Trans-Atlantic Alliance," to cooperate on safety issues; launch joint campaigns targeting employers in-common; and advance a global strategy promoting the right of workers to organise unions and bargain to improve their working lives.
The alliance will send shivers down the spine of union-hostile operators like First Group and Stagecoach who have major operations in both the UK and north America.
Devon & Somerset Fire & Rescue Service are bringing to local residents' attention the fact that certain older Bosch dishwashers are being recalled as they may be a potential fire hazard.
These are ones manufactured between 1999 and early 2005 for models purchased and used in the United Kingdom only. The affected dishwashers are in the batch number range from FD 7901 to FD 8504. Dishwashers which are outside the above batch number range are not affected.
One of the concerns is that people are not checking older dishwashers assuming the recall only applies to the...
Chalk & Ward, the largest independent full service advertising agency in the South West, has moved from their old home at Kings Wharf on Exeter Quay to a large Georgian Building in Southernhay.
The company were based at Kings Wharf on The Quay for 10 years but recent staff expansion within the company and the creation of separate division Chalk & Ward Public Relations, meant that the move was desperately needed.
Managing Director Robert Chalk said; “We loved being on The Quay, so if we were going to move it had to be for the right reasons. Giles Ward and I have been...
Children in care would be found a home with adoptive parents more quickly under new plans to reform the adoption system.
In a joint submission to Government, councillors, chief executives and directors of children's services have set out proposals to significantly increase the number of adopters recruited and speed up the process of finding new homes for children in care.
Under the reforms, councils would work more closely together to help match suitable adopters with children in other parts of the country.
Targeted support work would focus on speeding up the...
The National Secretary of India's main opposition party says she was attacked by five drunk men on a "fully jammed road in New Delhi in the night" in the country's capital.
Vani Tripathi, an actress and politician for the BJP said her attackers fled before police reached spot. Tweeting about the incident she said "Horrifying accident just got saved car smashed and on top of it five men tried to get inside my car all drunk..."
"Called 100 police did arrive but by the time they did if I had not locked myself in the car could've been dead, raped anything was possible!"...
Four artificial grass pitches and swimming pool changing rooms in the South West are set to be overhauled thanks to nearly £1 million of National Lottery funding from Sport England. With three quarters of people citing the quality of the pitch surface and the changing rooms as being important to their sporting experience, Sport England’s new Improvement Fund is investing £1,293,302 million to improve these facilities for the benefit of thousands of people. Sport England Property Director, Charles Johnston, said: “As the research shows people have a better experience of sport when the...
Sky News has revealed that HMV, Britain's last remaining independent music retail chain, is on the verge of being rescued in a £50m deal that will preserve 2,500 jobs.
Hilco UK, which has been operating in Europe for over 10 years, was founded out of a partnership between UK Management and the Hilco Group in the US, the global leader in distressed retail investment and advisory services. Hilco also already runs HMV in Canada and has worked with music labels to secure new releases for HMV’s UK stores.
Sky News' City Editor, Mark Kleinman, reveales "Hilco, the specialist...
Exeter College hosted its tenth annual Oxford and Cambridge Information Day this week, bringing admissions tutors and undergraduates from both universities to Devon so that local students can hear direct from the experts.
Downing College, Cambridge and Exeter College, Oxford have been working with the further education college in Exeter to organise this event every year since 2003.
Free to attend, the Information Day offered up-to-date information, advice and encouragement to local students about aiming high in their HE choices. The day is part of both collegiate...
A spectacular evening of fashion and pampering was enjoyed by guests on Thursday 14 March at gloss-Art Exeter. The evening was organised by Shipman Financial Planning, which raised £850 from ticket sales in aid of Hospiscare.
Peter Ellis, Managing Director of Shipman Financial Planning said "We are delighted to have raised these funds for such a deserving charity that has a huge positive impact in the local community." Other corporate businesses involved in the evening were gloss-Art Exeter, LK Bennett and Molton Brown.
LK Bennett provided the fashion show, where guests...
