Intellectual Property specialists at leading South West law firm, Stephens Scown LLP, have highlighted a growing number of South West businesses are turning to trade mark registration in order to protect their brands.
Research has shown that of the 25,000 UK trade marks registered in 2011, 2,047 were in the South West, an increase of 6% on the previous year, with the number of filings also increasing by 14%
Firms with trade marks are 21% more productive, and those who regularly trade mark have 20% larger workforces. Figures also highlight the importance of small and medium...
Devon Wildlife Trust is opening Meeth Quarry nature reserve for the first time to the wider public at a free special event on Friday 31 May between 10.30am and 4pm.
Meeth Quarry, near Hatherleigh, is 150 hectares of rolling landscape, deep water filled lakes and beautiful views. The charity’s message for the day is clear: ‘Come on down and see what we’ve been up to’.
The site was an operational clay quarry until 2004 and throughout its working life remained off-limits to the general public. At its peak, in the 1970s the quarry was employing nearly 50 local people and...
Professor Nick Talbot from the University of Exeter has been elected to the membership of the European Molecular Biology Organisation (EMBO).
Professor Talbot from Biosciences is among 52 outstanding researchers in the life sciences who have been newly elected to EMBO, which supports talented researchers, stimulates scientific exchanges and advances policies for a world class European research environment.
Election to life-long membership of EMBO is a mark of recognition of research excellence and the outstanding achievements made by a life scientist.
When Nathan Cox was looking for a workshop unit to relocate his angling business and its boat-building wing from Bristol, he found what he needed at Seaton – in the Riverside Units managed by East Devon District Council.
Nathan, who is pictured receiving the keys to the unit from then Economy Cabinet Member Councillor Graham Godbeer, had spent many a day afloat angling off the Devon coast and he knew the area well. So when the opportunity came up to rent the Seaton unit he snapped it up.
The company trades under the name Rod Rings and Things – or RRT for short – and enjoyed...
Devon County Council is delighted to announce that next year’s IWA National Trailboat Festival is to be held at the Grand Western Canal Country Park.
The event will form the main celebration of the Canal’s bicentenary year. Construction work began in 1810 and was completed in 1814.
The festival will take place over the late May bank holiday weekend (24 – 26 May) in 2014. There will be a big public festival day held at the Mid Devon Showground on Saturday 24 May, with a range of live music, performers and entertainments, all with a birthday party theme.
Keen crafters are being encouraged to go along to the Contemporary Craft Festival in Bovey Tracey next week (Friday 7 to Sunday 9 June).
Devon County Council’s Adult and Community Learning will be providing workshops for anyone who might be interested in taking up a craft and enrolling on a course. Current learners’ and tutors’ work will also be showcased at the festival.
“Bovey Tracey Craft Festival is an excellent event for anyone who may be thinking about enrolling on a craft a course with Devon Adult and Community Learning” said County Councillor Roger Croad. “It’s the...
Purity Boutique Spa just recently had the honour of pairing up with Reiss for their spectacular summer event! We amplified the beauty of some lovely ladies with makeovers and sleek manicures as tribute to the newest summer styles.
I realise that sanity is not an option when you are choosing dresses - or ANYTHING for your bridal party, but let's think logically about this, now.
You could either go for 'safe' (and possibly boring) or you could go out on a limb and go for the dress theme of your dreams. From chic elegant 'occasion' dresses to flattering 'fit and flare' styles...
Award-winning Exeter photographer Malcolm Rouse has just had one of his baby portraits judged second best saleable image out of over 160 entries in a national photographic competition.
Malcolm, who has his studio in King Street, Exeter, was up against fellow Master Photographer Association Cherubs partners at their national conference in Warwickshire.
The photograph of eight month old Jack Davenport of Exeter caught the eye of judges Ray Lowe and MPA President Hoss Mahdavi as they made their selection.
Jack, as part of the Cherubs baby photography scheme, has three...
Thanks to the Friends of Exeter Museums & Art Gallery, paintings of Dartmoor in RAMM’s forthcoming Widgery exhibition will be displayed in beautifully gilded frames.
The frames are being conserved by a small team of conservators and conservation students in the RAMM Conservation Laboratories between 28 May and 3 June and their progress can be followed on storify, or on Twiitter #moorgold.
The exhibition Masters of the Moor: William & FJ Widgery, starts on 6 July. It will be the first exhibition at RAMM for many years to bring together a range of work by both father...
The RSPCA is warning gardeners to tread carefully to avoid harming the wildlife which may be living in their gardens.
Every year the RSPCA receives calls about animals with distressing and often fatal garden injuries which in most cases are completely avoidable.
Past cases include a toad with its hind legs chopped off by a strimmer, a hedgehog burnt in pampas grass clearance, a blackbird speared by a garden fork and a toad stuck in a watering can.
Already this spring we have seen several hedgehogs caught by strimmers, a snake fatally injured by a lawnmower in...
