Health & Beauty

Devon project ‘The Devon Active Villages’ are urging locals to give them their support and help them win this year’s National Lottery Awards. The Devon Active Villages project, by Active Devon, is a finalist in this year’s award’s Sport category; one of seven categories that will recognise the UK’s favourite Lottery-funded projects.

The Devon Active Villages works with people to discover what sports they enjoy, and once they have gained this information they try to arrange for these sports to take place in local communities and villages. So far the group has helped around 10,000...

Hundreds of construction workers across Exeter are being encouraged to cover up and slap on the sun cream as part of a national sun safety campaign from Taylor Wimpey. Sun awareness posters have been put up on developments across the region to highlight the dangers of working in the sun without protection. Taylor Wimpey has also linked up with on-line retailer thesuncareshop.com to offer discounted sun cream for all its employees and contractors working on site. The initiative comes on the back of research which revealed that two thirds of builders never wear sun cream when in the UK...

We know that office plants can improve air quality , but can it boost well-being and productivity too? A recent study suggests the answer is ‘Yes’.

Office plants can assist in boosting staff well-being by up to 47% according to workplace research carried out at this year’s Chelsea Flower Show.

Visitors to the Chelsea Flower Show were challenged to take part in the study which measured their creativity, happiness and productivity as they experienced a range of different workspace designs.

The study, designed by the Identity Realisation research group at the...

The NHS has launched a new ‘be clear on cancer’ lung cancer campaign and local doctors in Devon have urged people with symptoms that could suggest lung cancer is the underlying cause, to get it checked out.

The campaign, which will include advertisements on TV, radio and newspapers, runs for the whole of July and into the first half of August.

It aims to raise awareness of the signs and symptoms of lung cancer, especially a cough that lasts for three weeks or more, and to encourage people with these symptoms to consult their GP. Doctors say the earlier the cancer is found,...