The Family Law Company is delighted to announce the appointment of a new lawyer as lockdown eases, adding additional capacity for a vital area of family law.
Chartered Legal Executive Gemma Rowe joins the team based at Balliol House in Southernhay, Exeter to specialise in cases involving children and domestic abuse.
Gemma, from Tiverton, has over 15 years of experience in law. Her interest in the sector came about after she took an A level in Law alongside Business Studies. Starting as a trainee legal secretary, Gemma went on to become a paralegal whilst undertaking...
Stagecoach South West has announced that, in light of the recent government announcement to relax retail restrictions, from 14th June 2020 they will be introducing a major uplift to their services with some of routes returning to their normal timetables. The bus operator has confirmed changes have been made on board their vehicles to enable social distancing to take while travelling with them. To allow passengers to travel safely, some of their seats are blocked off to enable people to sit at least 2 metres away from each other.
Mike Watson, Managing Director of Stagecoach South...
ORGANISERS of Cancer Research UK’s Race for Life events in Devon regret to announce the much-loved events are cancelled for 2020.
The charity has taken the difficult decision to withdraw all 400 Race for Life events across the UK this year to protect the country’s health as restrictions on mass gatherings caused by the COVID-19 pandemic continue.
This includes the Race for Life 5K and 10K at Plymouth, Barnstaple, Exeter planned for later this year, is now cancelled. Participants who have already signed up will be contacted directly by the charity.
Work to make safe a number of trees affected by Ash Dieback disease in Exeter is set to take place over the coming months.
The City Council is currently surveying the health of Ash trees on its land across the city and early signs are not good.
It is estimated that the UK will lose up to 90% of its ash trees over the coming months and years.
In Exeter, the fungal disease has already taken its toll and the Council says it needs to start removing several trees which represent a risk to public safety. A programme of replacement tree planting will continue to be...
Recovery after lockdown is the topic of a live business summit launched for South West SMEs.
Business leaders will hear from a panel of experts, as they discuss the key actions to focus on now as part of your SME business recovery plan.
Experts from Timewade, Astley Media, Minerva Lifelong Learning, Insight 6, Commissioning HR, Stephens Scown LLP and Bishop Fleming form the panel.
The summit is part of the ‘Technology For Success’ programme run by Timewade that gives South West SMEs free business guidance on using technology across their business.
A request was made to the Benevolent Masonic Lodge, Teignmouth eight weeks ago by Councillor David Matthews who was looking for premises with a kitchen large enough to cook Sunday lunches for over 100 people, when David Purdy, Managing Director of Allsop & Pitts and a Freemason became aware of the situation he contacted the lodge building committee, when they heard the request was being made to supply meals for the most vulnerable people in the Teignbridge area they immediately agreed.
Since then the number has dramatically risen to over 300 each Sunday and over 100 on a...
26 cities in the UK have more vacancies than jobseekers new research from job search site Adzuna.co.uk reveals.
Top cities labelled the ‘best places to find work’ include Oxford, Winchester, Manchester and Exeter, with Cambridge coming out on top with six vacancies per jobseeker.
Oxford is in second place with five vacancies per jobseeker followed by Manchester, advertising four jobs per person.
Across all cities job postings in healthcare and IT dominate making up 69,135 and 43,475 advertised jobs respectively. The NHS remain one of the largest recruiters,...
Healthcare staff in Devon and Cornwall will be among the first in the peninsula to be tested to see if they have had COVID-19.
The Peninsula Pathology Network, a partnership of the region’s NHS clinical commissioning groups and trusts, is now using NHS laboratories to provide antibody tests, which tell whether someone has had the virus that causes COVID-19 in the past, by analysing a blood sample.
The antibody testing programme will provide information on the prevalence of COVID-19 in the peninsula to help better understand how the disease spreads. It will work alongside...
Patients who are worried they are being ‘burden’ on the NHS are being reassured that safe, local health services are there for them.
There has been a significant decline in people seeking urgent and emergency treatment across the country since the beginning of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.
Doctors in Devon have noted a decrease in attendances across both GP practices and hospitals, and they are concerned that delays in getting treatment due to coronavirus fears pose a long term risk to people’s health.
Clinicians have been reaching out to people since...
The Exeter branch of RGB Building Supplies is open for business and welcoming all customers.
Those visiting are being asked to respect and adhere to the strict social distancing and general hygiene guidelines that the builders merchant has put in place. These include customers being asked to use the hand-sanitising station when they enter and leave the branch, make transactions as contactless as possible, and respect the signage and two metre markers that are in the branch, yard and warehouse.
RGB is regularly cleaning all hard surfaces, door handles, work equipment and...
