Preparations are well underway to help ensure Exeter city centre is safe and welcoming when many stores reopen their doors next week.
On Monday 15 June non-essential retailers will be allowed to reopen for the first time since the end of March, once they have completed a risk assessment. Hospitality businesses like cafes and restaurants can reopen from 4 July.
Temporary and permanent measures and changes are required to ensure the city centre remains a vibrant place to live, work, socialise, visit, shop and work.
Loganair today announced that it will fly from Exeter Airport for the first time from the start of July.
Included are routes from Exeter to Edinburgh commencing on July 6, and to Newcastle starting on July 20. A one-stop service to Aberdeen via Newcastle also starts on that date.
The Edinburgh service flies five times per week, and Newcastle and Aberdeen daily on weekdays. The services to Scotland will also allow connectivity on one ticket the length of the British Isles from the far south west of England to the Scottish islands. Seatc are now on sale.
At a recent meeting (at a safe distance) the Devonshire Freemasons donated £1000 to the Devon Freewheelers also known as the Devon Blood Bikes to enable them to continue the important work they are doing in transporting Covid 19 samples from test centres and hospitals to laboratories in addition to their other important duties.
Last Saturday two Assistant Provincial Grand Masters Peter Keaty and Craig Cox met up with Dave Cook and Mick Scaife to present them with the grant and congratulate them on the courage and determination they show as volunteer riders, this makes a total of...
Families in Devon, Plymouth and Torbay can benefit from free online parenting courses that are being launched today (8 June 2020) at the start of Infant Mental Health Awareness Week.
The courses have been created by the Solihull Approach and focus on supporting the relationships between parents, grandparents, and/or carers and their children by improving emotional health and wellbeing.
The four courses provide information about pregnancy and birth, brain development and the physical and emotional development of your baby. They are being launched at the start of Infant...
The Family Law Company is delighted to announce the appointment of a new lawyer as lockdown eases, adding additional capacity for a vital area of family law.
Chartered Legal Executive Gemma Rowe joins the team based at Balliol House in Southernhay, Exeter to specialise in cases involving children and domestic abuse.
Gemma, from Tiverton, has over 15 years of experience in law. Her interest in the sector came about after she took an A level in Law alongside Business Studies. Starting as a trainee legal secretary, Gemma went on to become a paralegal whilst undertaking...
Stagecoach South West has announced that, in light of the recent government announcement to relax retail restrictions, from 14th June 2020 they will be introducing a major uplift to their services with some of routes returning to their normal timetables. The bus operator has confirmed changes have been made on board their vehicles to enable social distancing to take while travelling with them. To allow passengers to travel safely, some of their seats are blocked off to enable people to sit at least 2 metres away from each other.
Mike Watson, Managing Director of Stagecoach South...
ORGANISERS of Cancer Research UK’s Race for Life events in Devon regret to announce the much-loved events are cancelled for 2020.
The charity has taken the difficult decision to withdraw all 400 Race for Life events across the UK this year to protect the country’s health as restrictions on mass gatherings caused by the COVID-19 pandemic continue.
This includes the Race for Life 5K and 10K at Plymouth, Barnstaple, Exeter planned for later this year, is now cancelled. Participants who have already signed up will be contacted directly by the charity.
Work to make safe a number of trees affected by Ash Dieback disease in Exeter is set to take place over the coming months.
The City Council is currently surveying the health of Ash trees on its land across the city and early signs are not good.
It is estimated that the UK will lose up to 90% of its ash trees over the coming months and years.
In Exeter, the fungal disease has already taken its toll and the Council says it needs to start removing several trees which represent a risk to public safety. A programme of replacement tree planting will continue to be...
Recovery after lockdown is the topic of a live business summit launched for South West SMEs.
Business leaders will hear from a panel of experts, as they discuss the key actions to focus on now as part of your SME business recovery plan.
Experts from Timewade, Astley Media, Minerva Lifelong Learning, Insight 6, Commissioning HR, Stephens Scown LLP and Bishop Fleming form the panel.
The summit is part of the ‘Technology For Success’ programme run by Timewade that gives South West SMEs free business guidance on using technology across their business.
A request was made to the Benevolent Masonic Lodge, Teignmouth eight weeks ago by Councillor David Matthews who was looking for premises with a kitchen large enough to cook Sunday lunches for over 100 people, when David Purdy, Managing Director of Allsop & Pitts and a Freemason became aware of the situation he contacted the lodge building committee, when they heard the request was being made to supply meals for the most vulnerable people in the Teignbridge area they immediately agreed.
Since then the number has dramatically risen to over 300 each Sunday and over 100 on a...
