WBW solicitors sponsor The Emperor's Perfume

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Posted: Mon, 01/07/2013 - 3:22pm

Exeter law firm WBW Solicitors teamed up with Lush cosmetics last week to stage a special ‘make your own’ scent workshop at Exeter’s Phoenix Centre.

Youngsters of all ages were invited along last Friday and got the chance to make their own bath-bombs before being treated to a performance of The Emperor’s New Perfume .

Kelly Lynch, Marketing Co-ordinator at WBW said: “WBW Solicitors was absolutely delighted to sponsor the The Emperor’s New Perfume, enabling children and families to get creative and make things together whilst being immersed in a truly theatrical experience...

£1.1 million will help develop products from super-material

New ways of making and using the wonder material graphene will be identified through pioneering work by engineers and scientists at the University of Exeter and Bath at the Centre for Graphene Science.

Researchers have received a grant of more than £1.1 million from a total £21 million cash pot awarded by the Government to the most promising UK projects to accelerate the path to market for products which use the material.

The funding has been awarded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, and was recently announced by Chancellor George Osborne. A team...

Local support needed for charity jazz concert

A man from Exeter is hoping to organise a jazz concert in aid of Hospiscare but is in need of funding from local businesses.

Wayne Hill has been inspired to organise this charity event after losing family and friends to cancer. He needs local businesses in Exeter to help support this event by funding for jazz bands and singers, technicians and tickets.

He is hoping to run the event in the Voodoo Lounge at the Phoenix Art Centre, on 10th August 2013.

Hospiscare is a charity situated in Devon, which support and care for patients with terminal illnesses.

If you...

Flybe customer service takes flight with Sitel

Sitel, a leading customer care outsourcing provider, today announced that Exeter-based Flybe, Europe’s largest regional airline, has selected Sitel as its customer service partner in the UK. The partnership integrates Flybe’s existing customer service agents into Sitel’s state-of-the-art Exeter facility to provide travellers with world class customer care.

In its search for a customer service partner, Flybe evaluated a number of options and service providers throughout the UK and overseas. Sitel was chosen because the company could minimise the impact of the transition on Flybe’s...

Jordan Cobb still not found despite cross-agency search

It is feared that 16-year-old Jordan Cobb from Plymouth drowned after he jumped from Torpoint ferry on New Year's Eve. Despite extensive cross-agency searches and a waning possibility that he will now be found alive, a Facebook page set up by his friends is asking for people to keep hoping. A fundraising page to offer support to his family has so far raised a total of £1,184.

All of the money will be given to the Cobb family next month. http://www.gofundme.com/jordancobb

Exmouth RNLI puts Six on Saddles for SOS day

Six volunteers from Exmouth RNLI lifeboat crew are cycling in full kit from Dawlish to Exmouth on Sunday 20 January. They intend to raise money towards the launch and recovery equipment needed for their Shannon lifeboat, expected by early 2014.

SOS Day is all about having fun and raising funds. On the last Friday in January, lifeboat stations and RNLI supporters around the UK and Ireland hold lots of fun events, really brightening up this otherwise dull month! The Exmouth volunteers have decided to hold their event on the previous Sunday in order to catch supporters at each of...

UK Child benefit changes take effect today

More than a million better-off families will lose some or all of their child benefit, under changes which came into force at midnight. Families with one parent earning more than £50,000 lose part of their child benefit and it will be fully withdrawn where one parent earns above £60,000. However, if both parents earn £49,000 each, they will continue to receive child benefit.

David Cameron described the move as "fundamentally fair" but Labour said it was a "huge assault" on families.

Devon's Eccentric Clergy (St Michael's Heritage Lecture)

Event Date: 
16/01/2013 - 7:30pm to 9:00pm
Venue: 
Church of St Michael and All Angels, Dinham Road, Mount Dinham, Exeter, EX4 4EB

A light-hearted survey of some of the more unusual characters to hold ecclesiastical office in the Diocese of Exeter. Using papers from the Cathedral Archive and the County Record Office, Paul Evans, who is giving the lecture, explores the lives some of Devon's clergy who have not merely erred and strayed from the social, cultural and liturgical norms of the Church of England, but also those who naughtily followed the devices and desires of their own hearts. From Bishops to unbeneficed preachers (sometimes not without reason), this lecture aims to explore a broad and colourful...

Missing Devon man last seen at National Trust property

Update: Mr Kerr returned home safe and well earlier this morning.

Police are appealing for sightings of a missing person in the Devon area. Stephen Kerr was last seen on Thursday 3rd January, 2013, at the car park at Parke in Bovey Tracy, Devon, a parkland and forest area belonging to the National Trust.

Stephen is described as a white male in his mid-50s. He is 5’8’’ tall and of slim build with green eyes and straight grey hair, which is receding. Stephen was last seen wearing a black jacket and dark trousers.

Police would like to hear from anyone who may have seen...

Torquay terror suspects released without charge

The two men arrested on suspicion of terrorist offences in Torquay have been released without charge. However, Police say that a criminal investigation will continue. The men, aged 18 and 20, were arrested under the Terrorism Act on Thursday following the discovery of a suspect package at a house in Torquay. Police forensics experts had been searching the house in Lymington Road. The area, between Upton Road and Upton Hill, was closed to the public for about five hours on Thursday.

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