Katie Fowler, who graduated from Exeter College this year with a Business Management BA degree, has secured a place on a prestigious Graduate Scheme with international property company, JLL, with a fully funded Masters. It is a fantastic achievement for Katie, who aims to become a Chartered Surveyor after two years.
Katie, who previously studied at West Exe School, progressed directly from her studies at college onto an internship over the summer at the Exeter office of JLL. She impressed so much that she moved successfully onto their Graduate Scheme. Katie was first introduced to...
Redrow West Country bolstered its team with several new appointments last year to meet the demand across developments in the region in 2019. In November, the property developer welcomed Sue Callard as quantity surveyor. With a background in surveying as a contractor, Sue became part of the Exeter-based West Country team with a keen interest in developing her expertise in the residential side of the industry. Commenting on her appointment, Sue said: “I’m thrilled to have joined such a prestigious name in the housebuilding industry and I’m looking forward to bringing my contracting...
Representatives from Devon’s Health and Wellbeing Board, which oversees the strategic delivery of health and social care services in the county, have signed an ambitious Charter to end loneliness.
It’s a pledge by the Board that its partner authorities, including the NHS, Public Health, and Social Care, will do all they can to tackle the issue. The Board wants to better understand the extent of loneliness in Devon; raise awareness of it; and involve people who experience it in helping to identify ways to reduce it. It also wants ‘loneliness’ to be on all the authorities’ agendas;...
Ryan Bowman says he is looking forward to helping Exeter City push towards League One having signed for the Devon club. Bowman who joins from Scottish Premier League side Motherwell for an undisclosed fee, says he was excited about joining Exeter having chatted to manager Matt Taylor and assistant manager Eric Kinder, who was his former youth team coach at Carlisle. “There was a couple of clubs ringing up about me as I was coming to the end of my contract with Motherwell and I thought it was time for a change,” said Ryan. “I spoke to the manager a few times and he sold the club to me...
Essential drainage improvements will be carried out on a section of the B3180 Woodbury Common Road this month.
The road will be closed for up to 12 days from Monday 7 January while work is carried out between Four Firs junction and Blackhill Quarry. The scheme involves the road being dug up which will make it impassable.
Those who normally use the B3180 to travel to Exeter or to connect to the A3052 will need to find an alternative route and allow extra time for their journey while the road is closed.
Food, music and festive decorations will be available at Exeter’s oldest building as part of a free community event to mark Twelfth Night.
Families can celebrate Epiphany Sunday at St Nicholas Priory, off Fore Street with a Tudor sweetmeats cooking demonstration in the building’s spectacular kitchen.
The event will be held on 6th January 2019 from 1 to 4pm.
People can sample the wares and also listen to music in the Great Hall. There will also be teas served in the Priory’s North Wing, once home to the monk’s refectory, which will be decorated with beautiful...
The Richard Dale Theatre School are performing Chicago. Set in the legendary city during the roaring “jazz hot” 20s, Chicago tells the story of two rival vaudevillian murderesses locked up in Cook County Jail. Nightclub star Velma’s serving time for killing her husband and sister after finding the two in bed together. Driven chorus girl Roxie’s been tossed in the joint for bumping off the lover she’s been cheating on her husband with. Not one to rest on her laurels, Velma enlists the help of prison matron Mama Morton and slickster lawyer Billy Flynn, who turn Velma’s incarceration into a...
This fast moving, roller coaster of a journey through some of the greatest songs of the 50’s, 60’s and 70’s, will be a show you are sure to remember. Over 160 amazing costumes, a touch of humour from one of the UK’s top comedians and performances rarely seen outside the ‘West End’ from this superb cast of singers and dancers. Including songs by Barry Manilow, Tom Jones, Frank Sinatra, Patsy Cline, Jerry Lee Lewis, Elvis Presley, Abba and many more.
Now entering their 14th successful year of producing shows that bring astounding...
This ever popular school musical tells the story of Poppy Pringle, who inherits a run-down seaside fun fair. The inspirational show tells how she leads the colourful band of fairground children to save it from the bad guys and bulldozers – and restore it to its former glory. After some excitoing thrills and spills along the way, they finally defeat Murgatroyd Megarich and his side-kicks and win the day.
