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Flybe add Exeter to London City and Newcastle

Authored by News Desk
Posted: Fri, 10/24/2014 - 10:06am

Flybe’s brand new, year-round London City flights together with the return of its daily Newcastle service are set to take off from Exeter Airport as the airline starts its extensive 2014-15 winter schedule this Sunday, 26 October.

The airline is also increasing its popular flights to Manchester with the added choice of an extra six flights a week.

This is the third winter season for Flybe’s successful Manchester hub from where passengers are increasingly taking advantage of by-passing congested London airports to make more convenient, seamless onward connections. This can...

Devon & Cornwall ASBO for 3 London men

Authored by News Desk
Posted: Wed, 10/08/2014 - 3:10pm

Three men from London have been given ASBOs preventing them from entering Devon or Cornwall. On the 7 October Devon and Cornwall Police were successful in obtaining ASBOs against the three individuals. They are Youseff Addow aged 28 years, Deeq Juni aged 33 years, and Issa Juni aged 25 years (all pictured).

The ASBO secured prevents the three men from entering the Counties of Devon and Cornwall for the next five years.

All three men are currently serving substantial prison sentences for offences committed in London. Application for an ASBO against all three men was applied...

UK are a nation of curtain twitchers

A social experiment which left a clearly labelled ‘journal’ on a table at a busy coffee shop in Central London saw three out of five people (60%) surreptitiously pick up and become engrossed in genuine, handwritten diary entries dealing with a wide range of deeply personal subjects – including losing a parent and even sex fantasies.

Perhaps unsurprisingly in a nation where soap operas prove time and again to be the highest-rated TV shows, a new social network featuring over 23,000 (and growing) real-life diary entries from real people has proven a huge hit with nosey Britons – and...

Do you work in the coolest place in the UK?

According to recent research, we spend more than 100,000 hours of our lives at work.

This is why we need to work in spaces that stimulate creativity and districts that excite us, with teams that support our ideas and bosses that inspire us.

Employees and business leaders in Exeter are being asked to nominate their office location in a unique search that will identify the very best business district and locations in the UK.

Can Exeter compete with the likes of London’s Shoreditch, Manchester’s prime business district Spinningfields or in Edinburgh’s New Town, which...

Rokk Media win national award

Authored by RokkMedia
Posted: Mon, 06/23/2014 - 11:16am

The 2014 UK Mobile & App Design Awards were recently held at BOXPARK Shoreditch on Wednesday 18 June, as part of London Technology Week 2014.

The UK App Design Awards were created to honour the hard work of designers from across all sectors and industries and featured an impressive 160 entrants for 30 award categories. This is the inaugural year for this Awards evening, which has been well-received by the industry for recognising the increasingly important relationship and exchange of ideas between clients and their designers.

Amongst stiff competition the Exeter-based...

Sandy Park flies flag for Exeter at Olympia

Authored by sandypark
Posted: Thu, 06/12/2014 - 11:27am

VIP rugby weekends in Exeter up for grabs at the meetings show

Sandy Park is doubling in size and will be able to accommodate up to 1000 delegates as from September, so what better time than to fly the flag at next month’s Meetings Show.

Delegates at next month's prestigious Meetings Show in London will have the opportunity to win the ultimate VIP weekend in Exeter as part of the various attractions on offer at the Sandy Park stand.

Representatives from Exeter's award-winning venue will be heading to the capital to fly the flag for the Westcountry at the three-day...

MPs victorious in Commons v Lords Tug of War

Authored by News Desk
Posted: Thu, 06/05/2014 - 7:33am

Tiverton and Honiton MP Neil Parish was on the winning team of the annual fund raising Tug of war contest between Members of the House of Commons and Peers of the House of Lords.

The annual competition, held in Westminster on Tuesday 3rd June, aimed to raise money for Macmillan Cancer support who provide practical, medical and financial support for cancer sufferers and push for better cancer care.

The event was introduced by Speaker of the House of Commons, The Rt Hon John Bercow MP. Various organizations, including the RAF and fire services also entered teams for the event...

Father and son Bikathon starts in Exeter

This year’s summer holiday is set to be the cycling adventure of a lifetime for Dwight Wood and his 11 year old son Lewis. The London-based pair are planning a 60 day ‘round UK coast tour’ taking in 2,650 miles of spectacular scenery and sights.

Dwight, who is Chairman of the Friends of Wanstead Parklands Preservation Group in East London, is an energetic campaigner for sustainable living and is co-founder of ‘ItDoesTheJob.com’ specialists in lifestyle products for low-energy living.

The bike ride has been planned to demonstrate how easy it is to enjoy a healthy, low carbon...

Exeter Daily shortlisted for national award

The Exeter Daily has been shortlisted for a major national award, thanks to its army of contributors.

The website has been nominated in the Best Use of Citizen Journalism category at the UK Online Media Awards.

The others on the shortlist are The Times, the Guardian and the BBC.

This is the second time the Daily has been in the running for a major award, having lost out to the Guardian in the national Newspaper Awards in 2012.

Then, one of the judges said: "The Daily is a brave, innovative and ambitious attempt to build a new, local digital news model...

Double cancer blow spurs on marathon efforts

Authored by Jayne Freer
Posted: Tue, 05/20/2014 - 4:27pm

Crossing the finishing line in just under six hours and raising £2,000 for charity was a poignant moment for first-time London Marathon runner Diane Collett.

After losing her mother to cancer just two months previously and supporting her sister through her own brave battle with the disease, 2014 has been a tough year for the 48-year-old business director.

And while Diane is first to admit that finishing in 5 hours 55 minutes breaks no world records, she is determined to secure a place next year to raise even more cash for charities close to her heart.

“I had run a...

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