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Lucy the Founder of Mumazing Success and the brains behind the Recharge and Achieve More Day, an event aimed at Mum’s and Women who would like to achieve an ideal life balance, has reduced the tickets as a gift to Women who couldn’t afford it.

Lucy says “I had so much interest in this day I’m putting on that on the day we launched, people crashed the server (which my web guys tell me is quite hard to do!). Anyway, when the site was back up some Women were saying that they were dying to come, but were struggling to make ends meet. I didn’t know what to do. So I went to all my...

Do you think people are basically good or bad? Is humanity intrinsically evil or fundamentally benign? Or, if we are a mixture of both, what is the balance? And, if you are a person of faith, you may ask what does your church or tradition say about this ancient and ongoing enigma? One view is what history calls ‘dualism’. There are forces of good in life and they oppose forces of evil, and the world is the arena in which this struggle takes place. But if this is so, why do good people do bad things and bad people do good things? Big questions and not immediately relevant or applicable to...

It's an honour to announce that Mariam Badavi has been nominated for the well-deserved Venus Awards - Devon 2013 for Employer of the Year, sponsored by Cathedral Appointments.

Even after seven months of personal setbacks, she got right back up and displays inspiring strength as a businesswoman and mother. She balances her role as a mother to her family and as owner and director of Purity Boutique Spa with grace and vigour.

While making sure to put her clients' needs and expectations first, she creates a loving environment for her beauty and skincare staff who are happy to...

I recently took up an invitation from North, East & West Devon Clinical Commissioning Group (NEW Devon CCG) to attend a “Have Your Say” community engagement event to help them look at the way they/we use out 2 Walk-In Centres (WIC) in Exeter – one attached to the Accident & Emergency Department at RD&E, the other on Sidwell Street in the city centre.

They wanted to know about how to make sure that we have the right level of service, in the right place, at the right time. And probably at the right price (but we’ll come to that later).

Ben Bradshw MP has pledged...