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Striking gold again at Coldharbour Farm

Coldharbour Field Kitchen struck gold again at the Devon Tourism Awards taking top spot in the Casual Dining category ahead of fellow finalists Cary Arms & Spa and the Cove Café Bar.

It’s the second time the Ottery St Mary eaterie has been awarded gold in this category; it was also...

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Open Door event shortlisted for prestigious award

An extremely popular event, which saw Derriford Hospital opening its doors to the local community for the first time in more than a decade, has been shortlisted for a national award.

The project, involving hundreds of staff and volunteers, has been shortlisted down to the final eight in the Value and Improvement in Communication category of the national HSJ Value in Healthcare Awards...

Learning and development team shortlisted for top national award

A successful project to deliver training and support development of staff at Plymouth Hospitals NHS Trust has been shortlisted for a prestigious national award.

The Learning and Development Team, who are based in the Norwich Union (NU) building at Derriford, have been shortlisted down to the final nine in the Value and Improvement in Training and Development category of the national...

Entries open for Crime Fighters Awards

NFU Mutual, the UK’s leading rural insurer, is urging crime-fighters to enter the Country Crime Fighters Awards 2014 to help crack down on crime in rural areas of the UK.

With only a few weeks left to enter, people are reminded to visit www.nfumutual.co.uk/crimefighters and tell the insurer in 300 words or less why they or their community group deserve to win an award and how they have...

Venus Awards Devon choose 2014 charity

The Natwest Venus Awards in Devon have chosen children’s charity CHICKS as their charity of the year for 2014.

The Tavistock-based organisation provides free, week long respite breaks for disadvantaged children from across the UK, who would not otherwise have time away from their difficult lives.

The children they support come from a variety of backgrounds – those living in...

Royal Seven Stars' record breaking run continues

The multiple award-winning Royal Seven Stars Hotel in Totnes is celebrating yet another accolade for its high levels of customer service, having received the highly sought after 2014 TripAdvisor Certificate of Excellence award for the fourth consecutive year.

The award itself has only been running for four years, and The Royal Seven Stars Hotel is among the very few hospitality...

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One week left for Venus Awards nominations

Not long to go to recognise your favourite working women!

The nominations for the Natwest Venus Awards in Devon will close in one week following more than a thousand nominations so far.

This is the second year the Venus Awards have run in the county and organisers say the support is bigger and better than ever before.

The Venus Awards recognise the efforts and talents...

Blue Chip Holidays shortlisted in British Travel Awards

Exeter-based Blue Chip Holidays, the largest provider of four and five star self catering properties across the South West and Isle of Wight, and which has recently extended into Yorkshire, has been shortlisted by the British Travel Awards (BTAs) in two of its most prestigious categories.

Having been nominated in the category for Best UK Cottage/Self Catering Booking Company, and Best...

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Two awards for Plymouth Your Space

A Plymouth project to give new life to empty shops and spaces has picked up two national awards.

The Plymouth Your Space project won the ‘diversifying the business mix’ category at the Association for Town & City Management National Partnership awards and then scooped their ‘National Partnership of the Year’ award.

City organisations formed a partnership to drive the...

NatWest Venus Awards: call for nominations

Sampson Hall are very Proud Sponsors of the NatWest Venus Awards 2014.

The category we are sponsoring is "Business of the Year" and to become a winner is really very simple!

The criteria are:

• Employ 12 people or more • Be a female friendly employer • Nominate yourself or your business • Nominate a woman or business you think deserves this award

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DEBI Awards 2014 open for entries

Over 50 businesses recently gathered at the National Marine Aquarium in Plymouth to launch the 2014 DEBI awards.

The free-to-enter awards celebrate and recognise the very best environmental initiatives in the Devon business community, as well as farming, co-operatives, community projects and environmental education.

Speakers at the event included David Young, MD of launch...

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