A charity founder from Exmouth has scooped a prestigious award that will see her travel America researching new approaches to suicide prevention and bereavement to benefit UK families.
Alison Jordan, CEO of Pete’s Dragons, is among 150 people to be selected from nearly 1,800 applicants to win a Churchill Fellowship.
The grant means Alison can embark on a once-in-a-lifetime trip across the Atlantic and spend two months in the USA later this year.
“I am absolutely honoured to have been chosen,” said Alison. “I’ll endeavour to ensure that whatever I learn will be...
An on-call firefighter at Danes Castle will be taking part in the Trans-America Bike Race in June 2018 to raise money for the Fire Fighters Charity and Wooden Spoon Devon.
The race involves cycling 4,300 miles across 10 US states in around a month.
Brian Murray retired as Chief Fire Officer from Highlands and Islands Fire Service in 2010 after a 30-year career, having served in numerous brigades and at the Fire Service College.
After moving to Exeter in 2013, Brian joined the on-call crew at Danes Castle. He said: “I could not resist the challenge as I had always...
Ottery St Mary-based artist, Abi Whitlock, is celebrating the successful sale of her first artwork through online art marketplace, Artfinder, just days after she joined the site.
The 23 year old whose application to sell on the site was approved on Saturday 5 September, sold one of her hyper-real acrylic paintings, ‘Adrift’ to a customer in Illinois on Monday 7 September for the list price of £3,400.
Abi has only recently committed to her art full time, recently moving to Devon with family after graduating from catering college.
A weight-loss expert from Exeter has struck gold for the exceptional work she does in helping more than 250 people in the area to lose weight every week.
Penni Ball, who runs the America Hall Slimming World groups every week, was presented with a Gold Award by Founder and Chairman Margaret Miles-Bramwell at the slimming organisation’s annual awards ceremony in Birmingham on June 20th because of her success in supporting slimmers to reach their dream weight.
In March and April this year Penni became a double Gold achiever achieving the award in both of her groups. The...
A Slimming World Consultant from Pinhoe, Exeter has struck gold not once but twice this year for the exceptional work she does in helping more than 250 members to lose weight at her local group every week.
Penni Ball, who runs the America Hall Slimming World groups, has been awarded ‘Gold’ status by the national slimming club because of her success in supporting slimmers to reach their dream weight and the super service she provides to those members.
The accolade is given to Slimming World Consultants who consistently have 100 or more members in their group over several...
The incredibly talented country singer Sasha McVeigh is bringing her 'I Stand Alone' UK tour to the Phoenix Arts Centre on April 21st.
She's taken the US country music scene by storm. Sasha has performed with some of the biggest names in country music in America including Tim McGraw, Blake Shelton and Keith Urban.
She recently played to a packed London 02 Arena at C2C. She's been booked to play mainstage at six American music festivals this summer.
Sasha is signed to WME, the biggest booking agency in the world and was the first British country singer to join the...
Slimming just got easier in the summer with the help of your local Slimming World Group. Members at America Hall are having a great time - losing lbs and learning how Slimming in the Summer doesn't have to be tough. There's recipe sharing for alternative picnic snacks like scotch eggs, sausage rolls, quiche and so much more. There's the great British BBQ - a slimming world members best occasion with recipes for homemade coleslaw, BBQ chicken with homemade BBQ sauce, Moroccan skewers, pins and sangria, all made slimming world style and delicious.
Slimming just got easier in the summer with the help of your local Slimming World Group. Members at America Hall are having a great time - losing lbs and learning how Slimming in the Summer doesn't have to be tough. There's recipe sharing for alternative picnic snacks like scotch eggs, sausage rolls, quiche and so much more. There's the great British BBQ - a slimming world members best occasion with recipes for homemade coleslaw, BBQ chicken with homemade BBQ sauce, Moroccan skewers, pins and sangria, all made slimming world style and delicious.
University of Exeter historian, Professor Richard Overy has been shortlisted for a new American military history prize for his book ‘The Bombing War: Europe, 1939-1945’.
The inaugural Guggenheim-Lehrman Prize in Military History has selected six books for the $50,000 (approximately £30,000) prize supported by The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation and Lewis E Lehrman. Harry Guggenheim established the foundation to support research on violence, aggression, and dominance because he was convinced that solid, thoughtful, scholarly and scientific research, experimentation, and analysis...
