Northern, Eastern and Western Devon Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) has been successful in a bid to take part in national charity Stonewall’s Health Champion programme.
It is the only CCG in the south west to be accepted onto the programme this year and one of just five CCGs in England.
Involvement in the programme means the CCG becomes a health champion for lesbian, gay and...
Exeter-based marketing agency Big Wave Media announces the new appointment of local marketer Ronnie Halden to expand its marketing and creative services team and to engage a new local and regional client base.
A full service marketing agency with a team of creative designers, digital developers and marketers housed under one roof, Big Wave Media provides innovative and cost effective...
Local business-woman Rebecca Weaver with extensive experience in the hospitality industry is to open an exclusive live music destination in Exeter. Located in Cowick Street adjacent to St. Thomas’ station, Charlie’s Live Lounge will cater strictly for the over 25s’ market. It will offer three floors of entertainment and hospitality and will open to the general public on the weekend of Friday...
Staff and volunteers at Buckland Abbey, Garden and Estate near Yelverton are gearing up for a bumper half term week full of activities, crafts and Halloween events. There will be plenty for families to do throughout the day, every day between 26 October and 3 November.
Families can set off with a bag full of activities to complete on the estate’s Autumn Adventure Trail which boasts...
Devon and Cornwall Police has crowned its champion dog and handler at its annual trials.
PC Lee Adamson and dog Vinni from Barnstaple came out winners after a series of tests and trials held across the Force area.
Trials are used to assess the ability and standards of the Force’s general purpose police dogs and Vinni was victorious ahead of PC Tim Goodwin and Buzz from...
The Children’s Society and The NWG Network have developed the ‘Say Something if you See Something’ campaign pack to help support businesses and local groups in tackling and preventing child grooming, sexual exploitation and child trafficking.
Recent high-profile cases of child sexual exploitation have involved children being groomed, exploited in hotels, restaurants and other...
A special health and wellbeing event will be held this Friday to provide support to people and their families and carers living with a laryngectomy in Devon and Cornwall.
The event is being held in the Mustard Tree Cancer Support Centre and is being run by the speech and language therapists in the peninsula area (Plymouth, Torbay, Cornwall and Exeter), in conjunction with the Macmillan...
Police in South Devon are warning residents after a string of bogus caller incidents in Newton Abbot and South Brent on Tuesday 22 October 2012.
Three properties in the Newton Abbot area and two in South Brent have been targeted with callers claiming to be from the water board – and in one occasion police officers – conning their way into people’s homes.
