29 Apr 2021
RURAL RESEARCH: Prof Stephen Roper
FARMERS and operators of other rural businesses are being asked how they are dealing with Covid-19 as part of a major new survey.
There is little research about how small firms in rural areas manage crises and how they recover, so the National Innovation Centre for Rural Enterprise (NICRE) plans to speak to more than 4,000 businesses in the next two months to shed light on the issue.
The survey – NICRE’s first – asks rural businesses about the strategies they have put in place during the pandemic to increase their resilience and their plans and expectations for the future.
Airline pilot training firm Skyborne invests further in Cheltenham
A serious investment in new Cheltenham accommodation for its trainee airline pilots has put the name Skyborne on the news radar again in Gloucestershire.
Skyborne Airline Academy is about to officially unveil its new accommodation in Cheltenham for trainee pilots.
Skyborne Airline Academy is about to officially unveil its new accommodation in Cheltenham for trainee pilots.
Covid-19 has hit the aviation industry hard, but the Gloucestershire firm Skyborne is showing no lack of ambition in future growth for itself and its sector – with another serious investment in Gloucestershire.
Started by three entrepreneurs, as well as its triumphant overseas takeover of US rival Vero Beach, Staverton-headquartered Skyborne Airline Academy has been investing heavily in Cheltenham too, opening new accommodation for its trainee pilots.
Chilling murder of Plymouth woman Kerry Power at the hands of a manipulative stalker
Devon and Cornwall Police has changed the way it approaches stalking and harassment cases following the death of Kerry Power at the hands of David Wilder in 2013
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Exeter University - where JK Rowling and Zara Tindall studied - tops the list of 108 universities where sex assault allegations have been made by people on the Everyone s Invited website.
The forum, set up last year by former student Soma Sara for people to share their stories of sexual abuse and rape culture , has shaken Britain s educational establishments.
Along with top schools, the UK s most prestigious universities were named in the 1,000 plus testimonials and red-brick Exeter appeared most, coming up in 65 anonymous testimonials on the website.
Oxford, Leeds, Edinburgh and University College London make up the top five.
Everyone s Invited s founder Miss Sara, who set it up while living with her grandmother s Paris home during lockdown after graduating from UCL, has said they were overwhelmed with new testimonials from universities.
Sam Potter. Image: Handout/PA An undergraduate student from Hersham in Surrey died after a university rugby club drinking game went tragically wrong, an inquest into his death has heard. Sam Potter from Hersham was 19 years old when he was found dead at a house in Gloucester by his rugby club teammates in the early hours of May 9, 2019. An inquest into his death at Gloucestershire Coroner s Court were told that toxicology tests found Sam had drunk a fatal level of alcohol after first and second year students at the University of Gloucestershire took part in initiation drinking game at the end of the rugby season on May 8.