Exeter-based Scomis, providers of ICT services and training to the education sector, has successfully achieved Capita Accreditation for a further two years, enabling them to continue providing and supporting Capita software to approximately 550 schools and colleges across the South West.
Scomis is a service unit of Devon County Council.
Phil Neal, Managing Director of Capita Education renewed the accreditation at Scomis’s Regional Training Centre at Great Moor House, Sowton, which opened last year.
Scomis says it’s delighted to receive the accreditation, because...
The Budleigh Jazz Festival 2013 brings three nights of live Jazz to suit all tastes to the town of Budleigh Salterton.
The exciting line-up this year features:
Friday 19 April - Both of the Devon Jazz Youth Orchestras 1 and 2
These students will display their abilities under the direction of Brian Moore. They play big band arrangements including those from the Count Basie Band.It is not often one can hear a live big band playing Jazz today.
Tickets £10.
Saturday 20 April - An All Star evening features…Trumpet and Flugel Horn, Bruce Adams
Happy nappies is the name of the game this week as the Devon Real Nappy Project joins in the celebrations for Real Nappy Week (15-21 April).
This national annual event is designed to raise awareness, promote the benefits and show parents how easy modern real nappies are to use. This year’s theme is Real Nappies…..Real Change! to inspire a new generation of parents to make the change and go real.
Real nappies –also called washable, reusable or cloth - are around £500 cheaper than disposables, up to 40% better for the environment and don’t contain chemicals or gels found in...
Devon County Council is seeking the views of local residents on the future of transport in Kingskerswell.
The South Devon Link Road (SDLR) has now received central and local government funding. Preparatory work is underway and the main works are scheduled to be completed in December 2015.
When the SDLR opens it will remove the majority of traffic from Newton Road and Torquay Road and provide an opportunity to permanently improve the experience of moving around the village. Previous consultations have shown that there are some key transport issues that are of concern to the...
The Highways Agency is urging drivers to take extra care and obey speed limits at roadworks in Devon and Cornwall, to prevent deaths and injurie among both road users and road workers.
In the last three years, eight road workers have been killed while improving and maintaining the strategic road network in England. In addition there are many near misses, with members of the public driving through coned off areas or colliding with works vehicles.
During a major operation to recover an overturned petrol tanker on the A38 at Tideford, near Saltash, a number of motorists got...
Hundreds of local children and parents came along to the official re-opening of Elizabeth Road Play Park in Seaton on Saturday 6 April.
Mayor of Seaton Councillor Peter Burrows, who was heralded in magnificently by David Craner, Seaton Town Crier, cut the ribbon and declared the enhanced play area open and ready for fun.
The new equipment in the play area contains £42,000 of improvements including a new Olympic basket swing, climbing walls and frames, spinning swings, a rota roka, and many more exciting features for children to enjoy.
Meet everyone’s favourite Piggies! Peppa Pig and George are at Devon’s Crealy on Monday 1st April. They’ll be meeting and greeting fans at intervals throughout the day!
All part of the extra fun at Devon’s Crealy this Easter school holidays.
Save up to 20% when you buy tickets online at www.crealy.co.uk
Devon was on flood alert today after torrential overnight rain.
Motorists were facing a tricky journey into work because of strong winds and standing water on many routes including the A376 and A380.
A landslip has closed a long stretch of the A379 road in Shaldon, from Ringmore Road to Deane Lane in Maidencombe.
The landslip is reported to be at least 15ft across and 3ft deep.
A flood warning map (below) issued by the Environment Agency showed 10 flood warnings and 19 flood alerts, including along the Exe. Officials say high tide, expected at around midday...
Rumours and rumblings about the potential arrival of Swedish giant IKEA to Exeter's growing list of big name retailers have rumbled on for years - in 2001 plans to open a store failed because the City Council was unable to identify a site of sufficient size to satisfy the retail giant's needs.
However, we could well be moving a step closer to this becoming reality. It is now believed that a site near Sandy Park and opposite Tesco has been identified as of a sufficient size and therefore the preferred site following discussions with Exeter City Council.
