In a bid to continue its commitment of making a day at the races affordable for all, Newton Abbot Racecourse will welcome back its popular 2-4-1 ticket promotion with a difference this season.
In past years, the racecourse has offered a 2-4-1 promotion on all Monday fixtures. However, with a change in this year’s racing programme, with a fall to just three Monday fixtures and an increase to six evening meetings, the racecourse will instead introduce a 2-4-1 ticket promotion for all evening fixtures.
Racegoers will be able to enjoy two Paddock Enclosure tickets for the price...
The funding shortfall for Devon’s road network will be raised with the next Government, Devon County Council has announced.
In setting out its programmes for its capital and revenue budgets for highway maintenance, the County Council’s Cabinet yesterday (Wednesday 8 April) gave a commitment to make further representations to the incoming government.
The Council is receiving £42.3 million from the Department for Transport for its capital budget 2015/16 to deal with planned structural maintenance on Devon’s 8,000 miles of roads, which is the biggest highway network of any...
Businesses from Exeter are exhibiting and sending delegates to the Business Showcase South West 2015.
The event, which organisers hope will attract 3,000 delegates, is held at Colston Hall in Bristol on May 14 and 15.
Business Showcase South West 2015 is the biggest event of its kind in the region, and celebrates the best in innovation, creativity and enterprise. Last year’s event proved to be one of the biggest business events of the year, with 1,719 tickets ordered and a sell-out exhibition.
More than two-thirds of the 91 exhibition stands have already been...
Devon has smashed the record for the number of new businesses launched in the area in a single year, according to new research. Statistics, compiled by www.informdirect.co.uk , have revealed that there were 5,501 companies formed in 2014, up from a previous best of 5,280. This brings the total number of businesses operating in the region to a high of 42,661. There are now 4.4% more active companies than there were a year ago and 28% more than there were five years ago. Henry Catchpole, CEO of Inform Direct, said: “This is clearly an area where fledgling firms are flourishing and where...
People all over Devon are putting their trainers, shoes and boots on and taking to the streets and pathways of their towns and villages in celebration of Devon Walking for Health Week from 13th-19th April.
Walking for Health is a successful national partnership between Macmillan Cancer Support and the Ramblers to promote walking as a free, fun and inclusive form of regular exercise for all ages. Although walks happen every week all around Devon, the Celebration Week focuses on nine established walks from Tavistock to Silverton where walkers will be winding through their local...
Dove Tree House in Exeter, Devon has won an award for being a top recommended care home in the South West.
The home came 9th out of 2,318 homes in the South west area. The top twenty South West homes received an award from the leading guide to care homes carehome.co.uk
The award was based on the home’s recommendations from their residents, plus friends and relatives of residents.
Dove Tree House is the top recommended home in the Exeter area.
Davina Ludlow, Director of carehome.co.uk, said: “We felt the best people to say how good a care home really is, are...
Devon and Somerset Trading Standards has launched a new 'Buy with Confidence' website that aims to protect buyers - and an award-winning solar business is backing its campaign all the way. Marsh-Barton-based SunGift Energy, which is the UK Solar Installer of the Year, frequently encounters renewable energy installers and other tradespeople that do poor quality work, and the company believes that more householders must made be aware of where they can go to find a reliable company. "We’re in favour of anything that helps protect buyers and rid the world of rogue traders," said Gabriel...
Anyone going to the south coast of Devon this May would be advised to be prepared for some swashbuckling as pirates will be everwhere; from Brixham to Plymouth, stopping off for a knees-up at Exmouth Rugby Club.
Scrumpstock, a cider festival which celebrates keeping Devon’s apple varieties and traditional pressing methods alive, will join in the notorious seafarers’ fun with its own Pirate Day on the final of three days of music, family entertainments, activities and opportunities to discover an ever-expanding selection of ciders.
Hospiscare provides palliative and end of life care for Exeter people but would like to do more if funding allowed.
The local charity was responding to a new report which says the UK's care system for dying patients with terminal illnesses is lacking and needs a major overhaul.
According to London School of Economics researchers, more than 100,000 people a year who would benefit from palliative care are not getting it.
Tim Harlow, Hospiscare consultant said: “Hospiscare’s recognises that there is much to be done and we would like to do more locally.
