Students at Ted Wragg schools across Devon have been celebrating Thank a Teacher Day this month (19th June) by honouring their teachers.
Thank a Teacher Day is an annual day of celebration to acknowledge the amazing work that teachers do. It’s an opportunity to reflect and appreciate the hard work of every single member of school staff.
Headteachers and colleagues from the Trust Executive sent out a video messages to all staff members to say thank you for their incredible efforts, teachers and co-professionals across schools received messages of thanks from students,...
Timewade , a leading technology partner for SMEs, won the Workforce Developer of the Year Award, at a ceremony at Crowne Plaza Plymouth on 17 May.
The Devon & Plymouth Chamber Awards celebrates the county’s leading entrepreneurs and businesses of all sizes and sectors.
The winners were announced at an awards ceremony on 17 May at the Crowne Plaza Plymouth.
Local technology partner Timewade took home the Workforce Developer award, celebrating the organisation’s approach to the learning and development of their team.
The universities of Exeter, Plymouth and Falmouth have joined forces to launch a new initiative that will harness the region’s academic and research expertise to improve people’s lives, empower communities and drive the economy across the peninsula and with UK benefits.
The South West Think Tank (SWTT) will draw upon the universities’ highly regarded experts, working across a rage of disciplines, to produce policy alternatives and bold proposals to address key issues facing Cornwall, Devon and Somerset.
Focussing on developing evidence-based policy options, the think...
The Devon Air Ambulance (DAA) Christmas Appeal is well underway, receiving a fantastic response so far.
Over £50,000 has been donated since the appeal launched in November to ensure that DAA’s crews remain fully stocked with everything they need for the winter months ahead.
For each of the incident's crews respond to, clinicians quickly work through the contents of their lifesaving critical care kits, which are stocked with essential medical supplies and equipment.
These kits and those back at base, must be fully replenished before crews are required to respond...
Devon & Cornwall Police and the Police and Crime Commissioner are committed to tackling violence against women and girls, wherever it happens - not least on a night out, which everyone should be able to enjoy without fear of crime.
This has led to the creation of Project NightEye, a policing approach that makes the evening and night-time a hostile environment for men intent on harassment, or sexual or physical violence.
NightEye has been used in selected locations this summer, and learning from these deployments will be assessed and used to refine the project prior...
A contestant on the BBC’s high-profile wedding reality show had to battle tragic family news as she planned the happiest day for couples. Yasmin Downing, from Plymouth, has revealed that she had to help arrange her beloved grandmother’s funeral at the same time she was competing with eight other hopefuls on the Ultimate Wedding Planner which launched last night. “It was devastating when my Nan Phyllis passed as she was instrumental in my upbringing and we were so close,” says Yasmin Downing, a 33-year-old florist. “I should have been grieving her, but I had to put on a smile so that the...
The managing director of a group of Devon care homes, and a dementia specialist, say wellbeing and early diagnosis is paramount for people living with dementia.
Their comments come at the start of Alzheimer's Society Dementia Action Week [May 15 to 21], an awareness raising campaign that works with individuals and organisations across the UK to encourage people to act on dementia. This year's theme is dementia diagnosis.
Geoffrey Cox, managing director of four Southern Healthcare homes in Plymouth, Exeter, Seaton and Dawlish, says residents’ wellbeing is integral to...
Devon-based Supacat has today confirmed receipt from UK MOD of an order on behalf of the British Army for 70 High Mobility Transporters (HMT 400 series), to be manufactured in collaboration with major defence engineering contractor Babcock International Group plc through its facility in Devonport.
The contract award for an undisclosed sum could lead to as many as 240 of the light armoured vehicles, should operational requirements demand. The project is to be delivered between Supacat’s manufacturing facilities at Dunkeswell near Honiton and Babcock’s Devonport site in Plymouth...
Claire Humphries has never looked back since swapping a frying pan for a toolkit on as she realises her dream to become an electrician.
Having worked as a chef for the last 20 years, Claire worked on private yachts in Florida, the Bahamas and the Caribbean and, in the off season, on luxury barges in France.
Due to family circumstances, Claire returned to the UK and used her cheffing skills for a charity providing palliative and respite care.
Exeter-based Claire was unexpectedly made redundant at the age of 46, leaving her at a crossroads as she weighed up her...
