Local plumbing and heating company Synergi SW are delighted to have scooped 'Best Plumbing Maintenance & Repairs Company, South West England' in the 2022 BUILD Magazine Construction and Engineering Awards.
After a public nomination process, BUILD's research team judged the winners based on various criteria including business growth, online reputation, client feedback and client dedication.
Synergi's Office Manager Ameana Saunders said: "This award is a testament to our team of engineers and office support staff who have all worked so hard over the last year. We strive...
Twenty-two athletes from Devon have been selected to compete at the 2022 School Games National Finals , the UK’s biggest multi-sport event for talented young athletes across the Uk from 1-4 September at Loughborough University .
This year over a thousand young athletes at the event hope to follow in the footsteps of Adam Peaty, Katarina Johnson-Thompson and Hannah Cockroft who formerly competed at the National Finals and this year went on to compete at the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games. School Games National Finals alumni secured 100 medals at Birmingham 2022 between them,...
A new self-employment support service has been launched by a leading provider of work and wellbeing programmes. The new service is aimed at helping those that have a business idea, to receive the support they need to achieve their business goals.
Seetec Pluss’ self-employment service offers a range of workshops, coaching, one-to-one sessions with a trained business advisor, networking, and online information to help launch their business and become self-employed.
According to the Office of National Statistics (ONS), more than 5 million people are self-employed in the UK...
Tilia Homes has purchased a 10-acre parcel of land at Shillingford Road in Exeter, as it seeks to expand its property portfolio into this historic city.
The site is located in Alphington and has outline planning permission in place for more than 100 homes. 30% of the homes will be allocated as affordable properties in a mix of social rent and share ownership tenures, and Tilia Homes will be making a significant financial contribution to the local area through the Section 106 agreement. The scheme will be accessed via a new access created at Shillingford Road.
South Western Railway (SWR) customers are being discouraged from travelling to the coast later this week and into the weekend, with strike action set to cause severe disruption across the network.
While the fine weather might make a day trip to the beach an attractive prospect, SWR is urging its customers to only travel on the network if absolutely necessary between Thursday 18 and Sunday 21 August.
Due to the strike action taking place on Thursday 18 and Saturday 20 August, there will be severe disruption across the network, with large parts of the railway closed...
Exeter-based School Games Organiser Nick Gillard has been announced as one of the first winners of the School Games Impact Awards, for his innovative project that looked to target local young people and encourage them to be physically active.
A network of School Games Organisers (SGOs) and School Games County Alliances have worked alongside children’s charity the Youth Sport Trust in delivering three distinct levels of competition since the Games' inception in 2010 - ranging from intra - inter school activity.
Launched for the academic year 2021/22, the Impact Awards are...
Local housebuilder, Barratt Homes Exeter, has donated £1,000 each to two Devon-based animals’ charities, North Devon Animal Ambulance and Animal in Distress, as part of its Community Fund initiative.
Rowana Rowan, Communications Co-ordinator and Fundraiser for Animals in Distress, said: “The Animals in Distress Rescue Centre in Ipplepen is absolutely delighted to have received this incredibly generous donation of £1,000 from Barratt Homes. As a small local charity, we rely almost entirely on the kindness and generosity of our local community and local businesses such as Barratt...
South Western Railway (SWR) is urging customers only to travel by rail if absolutely necessary between Thursday 18 and Sunday 21 August due to the planned industrial action.
Customers should expect severe disruption on the network and, if they must travel on any of those days, should seek to do so by other means.
SWR has published its strike days service levels for Thursday 18 August and Saturday 20 August, which will provide a severely reduced service on the routes Network Rail has made available.
Significant parts of the network will be closed entirely and...
A new grant fund has been launched by Devon County Council to tackle loneliness through transport. The Connecting You Community Grants Fund will provide grants to projects and organisations to help connect people to activities that help tackle loneliness.
The fund is open for applications from projects and charities across Devon. Grants can be applied for to fund specific transport projects tackling loneliness or transport related activities to enable people to access activities that will help.
The grant is part of a Department for Transport funded project that Devon...
South West based internet service provider, Jurassic Fibre, today announced the start of their ultrafast broadband network build in Cornwall.
The award-winning broadband company has already rolled out their state-of-the-art network to homes and businesses across Devon, Dorset and Somerset, where many towns and villages had previously struggled with inadequate and unreliable digital connectivity.
Bude marks the start of the broadband provider’s expansion across the region, with the Point of Presence site (the access location at which the Jurassic Fibre network will be...
