Two of the top teams in Devon have joined forces ahead of the new Premiership Rugby season.
Ashfords LLP has signed sponsorship deals with four Exeter Chiefs players as the side gears up for another exciting campaign.
Justin Blanchett, Rob Coote, Sam Blanchett and Henry Slade visited the law firm’s Exeter offices and practised a scrum with partners Stuart Mathews, Tim Heal, Andrew Perkins and Graham Cridland.
Graham said: “It was great to meet the players and talk about the forthcoming season, which we are all incredibly excited about.
South West law firm Ashfords is topping the table for completed deals in the first half of 2013. The firm bucked the trend as the market experienced a year-on-year decline in volumes.
Research by Experian revealed that Ashfords was the most successful law firm in the whole of the South West for completing deals so far this year.
The business has recorded some significant successes in recent months including assisting with a management restructure at Westcountry-based clothing retailer Quba and helping Exeter company Antech, which supplies drilling equipment to the oil and...
Award-winning house builder Redrow is exceeding expectations at The Harringtons in Exeter. An impressive 22 properties have already been sold at the development since its launch in March.
The Harringtons is located in a beautiful part of the country on Harrington Lane, Exeter. There are currently three and four bedroom homes available, which have been designed for family living and are available from £239,995 to £359,995.
Emma Solman, sales manager for Redrow (South West), said: “We are thrilled with the interest we have had regarding The Harringtons since the launch. The...
The UK’s leading marine charity says people visiting the beach this summer should keep their eyes peeled for wobbly visitors who act as a barometer of the seas. After a slow start this year, jellyfish blooms started increasing in June and July as our coastal waters warmed up.
Every summer hundreds of reports of jellyfish sightings are made to the Marine Conservation Society’s (MCS) National Jellyfish Survey, which is in its 10th year. During the last decade, 7,500 jellyfish reports have been made by the public to MCS. The survey is providing valuable information about where and...
Award-winning South West Photographer Tim Pestridge is helping the Met Office to create a series of short films about photography and the weather to feature as part of its new ‘Get Ready for Summer’ campaign. This is a particularly prestigious opportunity for Tim as he joins a list of high profile organisations and companies helping the campaign such as the RNLI, Cancer Research UK and the Forestry Commission.
The Met Office #loveukweather campaign has recently been launched, with the content from different partner organisations offering the public safety advice and things to do,...
The Animal Health and Veterinary Laboratories Agency (AHVLA) have worked alongside farmers in a unique experiment in which badgers were monitored by surveillance cameras.
Following the Badger cull debate, the AHVLA have installed surveillance cameras on 75 farms in the South West. Their footage offers an alternative to those who are all for culling of badgers to go ahead.
Badgers can carry the Bovine TB disease, and can also pass it on to cattle, making them unfavourable amongst the farming industry. However, the surveillance footage recovered by the AHVLA shows that some...
Lessons may never be the same for children in the South West following the recent launch of Beach Schools South West.
The team will be offering schools the chance to take classes out of the schoolroom and onto the shoreline for a new type of outdoor learning.
Beach Schools South West offers lessons on the beach which tie in with the national curriculum and OFSTED outdoor environment best practice.
Outdoor learning is proven to provide positive outcomes, to help children learn, particularly those who find it hard to engage with traditional classroom-based lessons....
The Met Office issued a severe weather warning on Monday 22 July with thunderstorms anticipated in the South West in the next few days.
The recent prolonged spell of high pressure and heat is likely to give way to cloudier conditions with the risk of isolated thunderstorms or longer spells of thundery rain and some torrential downpours in places.
The Met Office said: "The public should be aware of the risk of localised disruption to travel, and more generally to summer holiday activities, due to (for example) surface water flooding.
One of the UK’s leading housebuilders, Bovis Homes, has opened a new office in Exeter to support the growth of its operations in Devon and the rest of the South West.
With new developments at various stages of build across the county – and with land opportunities springing up elsewhere to deliver much needed new housing stock – the return of Bovis Homes to Devon is a sign that the local economy is on the up.
In fact, the business has restructured to ensure a focus on the local housing market and Deputy Managing Director of the South West (southern) region, David Farley,...
The Met Office has issued a revised heatwave warning for the South West, raising the level from two to three, meaning action is required.
Where a level two heat health grading should prompt an alert and readiness for action, a level three warning requires social and healthcare services to target specific actions at high-risk groups.
The Met Office forecasts a 90% probability of heatwave conditions on Thursday 18 and Friday 19 July in the region.
Temperatures in Exeter are expected to reach 26 or 27 degrees once again and other parts of the region may see the mercury...
