With an election just around the corner, prospective parliamentary candidates for Exeter have been invited discuss their views and policies around culture and creativity.
This is an opportunity for city residents to ask the politicians how they see Exeter's cultural community developing over the coming years and the values they place on creativity in all areas of life.
The speakers are: Ben Bradshaw (Labour), Dom Morris (Conservative), Diana Moore (Green Party), Keith Crawford (UKIP), Joel Mason (Liberal Democrat) and Edmund Potts (Left Unity Trade Unionists &...
Please join the Exeter network at the Mercure Exeter Southgate Hotel as part of Leading Women UK's Political Special 2015.
The Mercure Exeter will kindly be providing complimentary canapés and a glass of fizz on arrival.
According to the Fawcett society: - Men currently outnumber women 4 to 1 in Westminster. - Currently 16% of Conservative 32% of Labour and 12% of Liberal Democrats MPs are women. - Women constitute 32% of elected councillors, but just 12.3% of council leaders in England are women. - There are disparities between women and men regarding their...
The TaxPayers’ Alliance comes to Exeter to support local campaigners appalled at the council’s proposed expenditure of £20m of taxpayers’ money on a city centre swimming pool that no one really wants. "It has all the elements of a classic white elephant," says the Taxpayers’ Alliance South West spokesman Tim Newark, looking down on the bus station site from a nearby multi-storey car park.
"We are a national grassroots organisation dedicated to fighting a War on Waste, our current campaign, and in an age of austerity when there are so many demands on public money, the thought of...
Dom Morris has welcomed the announcement of additional funding to support businesses and infrastructure in Exeter – helping to create jobs and support businesses. Heart of the South West, the Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP) for Exeter and the local area, has been allocated an additional £65.2 million. This brings Heart of the South West’s total allocation of Growth Deal funding to £195.5 million. New investment in projects such as the widening at Bridge Road, will provide further support for local businesses in Heart of the South West. By devolving power and decisions from Whitehall, we...
So who’s up for some fun festive frolics? Why not join the growing gang of Santa lookalikes and elf impersonators shimmying 100ft down the Princesshay Car Park in central Exeter for Exeter YMCA’s fifth charity Santa Abseil, sponsored by Gilbert Stephens and Attention Media.
Due to take place on Saturday 6 December, all money raised will help the YMCA continue to provide a home to over 40 young people and the support that they need to see a brighter future.
Isabel Bertram from Gilbert Stephens said: “We have recruited an eager team of Santas from Gilbert Stephens’ Young...
This week we pay tribute to the leaders of the 355 voluntary organisations in Exeter that all rely on the dedication, energy and commitment of around 2,000 trustees in order to support their beneficiaries.
Hundreds of events will be taking place this week as charities use Trustees’ Week as a time to thank the one million trustees across England and Wales for their time and dedication.
Trustees are the people ultimately in charge of a charity. They make decisions that help charities achieve their aims and change their beneficiaries’ lives.
Prospective Exeter MP Dom Morris held discussions with the Transport Minister Patrick McLoughlin to press home the importance of the roads infrastructure to the city.
Yesterday (Monday) Prime Minister David Cameron reaffirmed his commitment to make improvements to the A303 which it is hoped will help relieve congestion and improve Exeter's connections to the rest of the country.
After the meeting, Dom said: “With unemployment down by 49% in Exeter since the Conservatives came to power, we are leading the South West’s recovery but improving our transport system is crucial to...
Exeter politicians from all parties are braving a challenge to live for a whole day without electricity to help get people thinking about their energy use.
The Pull the Plug challenge is being organised by Exeter Community Energy (ECOE) and will see local councillors Rosie Denham and Adrian Fullam and parliamentary candidates Diana Moore and Dom Morris go a full day with no phone, car, TV, laptop – or indeed anything else with a current.
The challenge lasts for the whole of Sunday 12 October and ECOE want as many people as possible to take part.
The Conservative party’s Prospective MP for Exeter Dom Morris has today challenged Labour to “do the right thing” and back English votes for English laws in Parliament. Dom supports the proposals by Prime Minister David Cameron to ensure that legislation at Westminster which affects England, is only voted on by English MPs. But Labour Leader Ed Miliband has refused to back the proposals.
Dom said: “I am challenging Ed Milliband’s current MP for Exeter Ben Bradshaw to do the right thing and come out in favour of English votes for English laws. “It is basic democracy that MPs should...
The Prospective Parliamentary Candidate for the Conservative Party in Exeter is waging a War on Weeds in the city.
Dom Morris says he was so fed up with trying to get a satisfactory response to the problem from Devon County Council and Exeter City Council that he took the matter into his own hands... literally.
And so armed with nothing more than a couple of shovels and a willing band of volunteers, he is now on a clean up mission.
Residents all across Exeter have been sending in their photos of huge weeds by email and calling the campaign team. There’s even a Rate-...
