Year 6 children at Broadclyst Community Primary School (BCPS) had to keep a big secret all over Christmas – they had a virtual meeting in their classroom with Sir Richard Branson on 17 December, which was discussed during The One Show last night (14 January).
The Year 6 children had been working on establishing their own companies after being awarded seed funding through a Dragon’s Den style process as part of BCPS’s annual Global Enterprise Challenge. While they were looking for inspiration from successful business leaders, Richard Branson unexpectedly joined a live lesson via a...
A leading Exeter property consultancy has been shortlisted for a prestigious award which celebrates excellence in undergraduate employability.
Fisher German, which has an office in Exeter, has been announced as a finalist for the National Undergraduate Employability (NUE) Awards’ ‘Best Development Programme’ award.
The award recognises employers who offer students development programmes that improve both technical and soft skills, as well as empowering them to be more effective and successful employees.
Fisher German was shortlisted in recognition of its...
January 1st has come, and with it the long and excruciating process of Brexit has been finalised. It certainly wasn’t easy on both sides, but it was harder on the UK, having its economy on the line here. While Exeter was predominantly against leaving the EU back in 2016, the rest of Devon county was certainly up for it - and Devonians have certainly had their reasons to be in favour of the decision.
Now, only a few weeks after the day of the split, it seems like things aren’t as bad as they could have been for the people of Devon county (certainly when comparing the situation to...
Four more GP-led vaccination centres are opening in Devon today (15 January) and tomorrow, meaning every practice in the county is offering appointments to eligible patients.
This week, patients in priority groups have been contacted to book appointments at new centres starting at:
Culm Valley Integrated Centre for Health, Cullompton
Lords Meadow Leisure Centre, Crediton
Sherborne House, Newton Abbot
St Thomas Health Centre, Exeter
Culm Valley begins seeing patients today (Friday) while the...
Ding-ding! Here’s the moment a Devon bus driver wins a £45,000 set of wheels and £10,000 in cash from online competition company BOTB .
Matthew Hector, 24, from Exeter, was just about to start his shift when BOTB’s Christian Williams video-called him to tell him he’d scooped a brand-new modified Motech BMW M135i xDrive.
“Am I dreaming?” the father-of-four asked as he picked up the phone.
“I knew who Christian was as soon as I saw him,” he said. “I’ve been playing BOTB for a year now and love watching the winner’s videos.”
Devon County Council is working with partners to ensure that rapid ’30 minute’ community testing for people without Covid-19 symptoms will soon be available across Devon.
It follows the Government announcement on January 10 that it is expanding asymptomatic community testing across the UK.
Approximately one in three people who have coronavirus do not display symptoms.
Community testing will help to find those who have COVID-19 but do not have symptoms and need to isolate and who may inadvertently be spreading the virus.
Wheels 2 Work has received a major boost in the South West, with the launch of Wheels 2 Work South West (W2WSW). This significantly builds upon the work of Devon Wheels 2 Work which has been providing transport support for those accessing work and education since it was first launched in 2001.
In a further development, W2WSW has become a Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO) and has applied to become a charity.
The Wheels 2 Work programme was originally established as an amalgamation of three existing programmes which was renamed to Devon Wheels 2 Work in 2006....
Work has started on the next junction to be developed as part of the infrastructure development on the outskirts of Exeter.
The School Access Junction is a new signalised junction off the A379, between the Devon Hotel Roundabout and the existing junction with Chudleigh Road.
It is part of the £55 million infrastructure project to the south west of Exeter which will enable the development of 2,500 homes and employment.
This latest junction will support the construction of a new all-through school including both primary and secondary provision and new homes....
Devon’s Director of Public Health, Steve Brown, has called on us all to be extra vigilant in following the Government’s COVID-19 lockdown rules, and to “think twice” before we leave our homes.
This follows a stark warning from the Chief Medical Officer, Professor Chris Whitty, that the next few weeks will be “the worst” of the pandemic for the NHS, and that the UK will go through the “most dangerous time” in the weeks before the vaccination rollout has an impact.
Steve Brown said: “I completely understand how difficult this dreadful situation is for so many people in...
A large global trial designed to test the theory that the widely used BCG vaccine might help protect against COVID-19 amongst healthcare staff and care home workers in the UK continues to recruit participants.
The Exeter study site started recruitment in October and is ongoing in the UK and globally. Now, the University of Exeter has partnered with the Royal Devon & Exeter NHS Trust (RD&E) to recruit staff, and has opened new clinics in Teignmouth and North Devon
Researchers in the trial said that as well as finding out if the BCG vaccine reduced COVID-19 disease...
