PLYMOUTH Science Park’s groundbreaking mentoring scheme for businesses has been recognised by industry leaders as a UK first. The Park provides all tenants with free access to an advisory board made up of a panel of experts in a variety of specialisms in order to help them transform and grow their businesses.
The Plymouth Science Park Advisory Board was formed in 2013 to provide expert advice to high growth businesses. Up to 100 hours of time is available in areas such as business planning, high growth goal and strategy setting, and market awareness. This ensures that companies are...
Police are appealing for witnesses following an injury road traffic collision in Ottery St Mary.
The collision occurred at around 5.28pm on Thursday 5th November, in Strawberry Lane Ottery St Mary between a dark coloured Audi A3 vehicle and a female approved marshal who was controlling traffic at the Tar Barrel event.
An altercation allegedly occurred between the driver of the Audi vehicle and the marshal, resulting in the driver accelerating through the road closure.
On doing so the female marshal was dragged along by the vehicle for a few metres before falling...
Two overnight road closures will be carried out this month as part of the ongoing major refurbishment of the Rive Exe Viaduct on the A361.
The scheme, which involves replacing the failed expansion joint and waterproofing the bridge deck of the structure west of Bolham Roundabout in Tiverton, is reaching the half way point.
Work on the eastbound carriageway is due to be complete next week (w/c Monday 9 November) and the upcoming night-time closures will enable the contractor to safely switch to the westbound carriageway.
Exeter entrepreneurs will join hundreds of start-up hopefuls taking part in an event that will be beamed across the UK during Global Entrepreneurship Week. Exeter Library in Castle Street, will be one of five venues that will screen the mighty day-long Biggest Ever StartUp Saturday event on November 21. Small business network Enterprise Nation has teamed up with the British Library to host the live performance at the British Library in London, while candidates in Exeter, Newcastle, Manchester, Barnsley and Leeds will be able to see the live event on the big screen. The supersized class...
Recent atrocities in Syria and other Middle Eastern countries were the catalyst for a retired professor to finally chart her own childhood in war-torn Germany.
Barbara Ottaway, who has lived in the United Kingdom for the past 50 years, is one of a group of 13 friends who have relived their childhood experiences of Nazi Germany in an extraordinary bilingual biography, Memories Unlocked- Befreite Erinnerungen. The stories are presented in Barbara’s translation into English and in the original German.
Along with her Berlin-based co-editor, Renate Mehta, they have produced an...
An academic from the University of Exeter has conceived a 10-part documentary on the history of black British theatre and screen, soon to be presented by Sir Lenny Henry on BBC Radio 4. Dr Michael Pearce developed Raising the Bar, working as lead consultant alongside the BBC. Dr Pearce also provides expert commentary throughout the series, which is produced by Simon Elmes.
Dr Pearce, who specialises in black British theatre history, was inspired while interviewing playwrights, directors and actors for the National Theatre’s Black Plays Archive project. He said: “It became clear to...
The Royal Albert Memorial Museum & Art Gallery (RAMM) looks set to trial charges for some exhibitions, following an Exeter City Council survey last year.
A proposal to trial charging for certain exhibitions at the Exeter museum will go before members of the City Council's Scrutiny Economy Committee on 12 November.
Although new to RAMM, many museums and galleries up and down the country make charges. As funding to councils is reduced, arts and culture venues and organisations are looking at how to generate income.
In the city wide ‘Stronger Exeter’ survey which...
An Exeter secondary school has been ‘transformed’ in just two years and is now a good school with many outstanding qualities, according to independent education inspectors.
And St Peter’s Church of England School is set to get even better, they say.
Just two years ago, inspectors from the schools’ standards agency, Ofsted, said St Peter’s required improvement.
Now they say the overall effectiveness of the school, the quality of teaching and learning, the leadership and management and the personal development, behaviour, welfare and outcomes for pupils are all good...
In September 2014 Northern Devon Healthcare Trust was reported as ‘good’ or ‘outstanding’ for the majority of the services provided (six of the eight areas inspected), and was required to make improvements in three specific aspects of care at North Devon District Hospital (NDDH): end of life care, emergency and urgent care and maternity and gynaecology services.
This time the inspectors visited between 5 and 7 August 2015 with a further unannounced visit on 17 August.
The report published on 3 November demonstrates that inspectors saw the improvements and progress the Trust...
