Pebble-Moon Holistic Wellbeing Centre in Seaton offers a variety of wellbeing treatments
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It’s time to rediscover your local high street and hit the shops, cafes and businesses whose owners are delighted to be reopening their doors to safely welcome customers back.
There is a whole host of independent businesses in East Devon and, as lockdown restrictions are eased, there is no better time to rediscover the independent shops in your high street.
When you visit an independent shop in East Devon you’re not only getting a unique and personalised service and product; you’re also supporting the area’s economy and the livelihoods of local retailers.
Richards, a former newspaper subeditor, provided standard letters that could be sent to correct apostrophe misusers
24 April 2021 • 9:24am
John Richards in 2019, when he left the Apostrophe Protection Society because he felt ‘the barbarians have won’
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John Richards, who has died aged 97, was once described as the “Don Quixote of the grammar world”, as founder proprietor of the Apostrophe Protection Society (APS), which he established in 2001 in an attempt to save an endangered species.
The usefulness of the apostrophe was memorably made clear when Kingsley Amis, challenged to produce a sentence whose meaning depended on a possessive apostrophe, came up with three versions of the same sentence: “Those things over there are my husband’s; Those things over there are my husbands’, and Those things over there are my husbands.”
A new 55,000 sq ft parcel distribution hub is set to be built at developer Stoford’s Exeter Logistics Park in East Devon.
The commercial property developer has submitted two reserved matters planning applications to East Devon District Council, for two new building units on land at the former Hayes Farm, Clyst Honiton.
They include the proposed construction of a c.55,000 sq ft parcel distribution service centre with integral office space on behalf of an end user, which has the potential to create up to 151 new jobs.
The modern, bespoke facility has been designed to increase operational efficiency. It will minimise the number of vehicles required on site and reduce environmental footprint, whilst delivering the same employment level as a typically larger scale unit.