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New report reveals UK's happiest places to be a dog

Exeter comes 9th in Dogs Trust's Happy Place Index, but we all have room for improvement

For dogs, a happy place can be somewhere physical, like cuddling up next to their owner on the sofa, dozing by the fire or rolling around in a muddy puddle. But it can also be a feeling, like the excitement of a new toy, the comfort of being with their favourite humans, or the relief of just being somewhere safe.

To examine the various factors that contribute to a dog's satisfaction, an academic has developed a new formula – the Canine Happiness Score (CHS).

The new scoring system...

Appeal following daytime burlgary in Exmouth

Authored by News Desk
Posted: Wed, 02/10/2016 - 11:09am

Police are investigating after a burglar struck at an Exmouth house while the occupants were at home.

The offender walked in through the front door of the property in New North Road on Thursday 4th February, while the family was upstairs and stole a handbag.

The blue denim Kipling bag contained a distinctive apple green coloured Ted Baker purse which has a faint scratch on the front. As well as cards and cash, the bag contained an umbrella and a set of keys.

Police are appealing for information from anyone who may have seen suspicious individuals or activity in the...

New garden trail launched at Knightshayes

Families can travel all around the world this half-term at Knightshayes, following in the footsteps of intrepid Victorian plant hunters. With the launch of a brand new family trail, they can discover amazing trees, shrubs and flowers from all corners of the globe.

The Knightshayes garden passport trail takes families all around the beautiful woodland garden. From Chile to Australia and Taiwan to North America, explorers will have to find the passport stamp on each tree and add it to their own Knightshayes passport which they can collect visitor reception.

A brand new...

Exeter BID launches photography competition

The Exeter Business Improvement District (BID) is offering one lucky photographer the chance to win a £100 Jessops voucher and a Jessops photography course worth £119.

The Exeter BID is calling all budding photographers to capture what they love most about Exeter in one glorious image.

The photograph can be of a well-known location within the city such as the architecturally stunning Cathedral, the bustling Exeter high Street or the ever so quirky Fore Street. With Exeter having such a great history no one will be short of inspiration in finding the shot that sums up the...

Health reality check for middle aged men

Authored by News Desk
Posted: Tue, 02/09/2016 - 9:50pm

There may be a discrepancy between how much men value their health and what they do to look after it, according to new research from Public Health England:

Three quarters (74%) of men in England aged 40 to 60 place their health in the top three most important things in their life

Only a third (35%) feel confident that they know all the risk factors for heart disease

Six out of ten (58%) men believe their health will get progressively worse, regardless of whether they live a healthy lifestyle

When asked to choose the top 3 most important things in their life...

Princesshay kick-starts new charity partnership for 2016

Princesshay is delighted to announce local charity, Exeter Royal Academy for Deaf Education as their 2016 charity partner. Each year the city’s premier shopping destination officially supports a different local charity, helping to raise awareness through fundraising and events.

Exeter Deaf Academy is the only specialist day and residential Deaf education provider in the South West, and at 190 years old, it is also one of the city’s oldest charities. It runs a school and college for students from throughout the UK in a bilingual environment, providing tailored education and care in...

Council considers initiative to help make Exeter less wasteful

Authored by Diana Moore
Posted: Tue, 02/09/2016 - 3:44pm

The Green Party in Exeter has welcomed Exeter City Council’s response to their proposals to set up a ‘Food Waste Roundtable’ to take action on reducing the city’s vast quantity of food waste.

Food waste makes up 36% of ‘black bin’ waste in Exeter and ends up in the incinerator at Marsh Barton.

The Green Party has long campaigned for Exeter to have separate food waste collections, like other areas in Devon, so that this waste stream is removed from ‘black bin’ waste and treated differently.

A petition set up by Exeter Greens calling for food waste not to be...

Future of East Devon nature reserve secured

Authored by Mary Youlden
Posted: Tue, 02/09/2016 - 12:10pm

Bystock Pools, one of Devon’s most loved wildlife sites, has been secured for the future by Devon Wildlife Trust. The popular East Devon nature reserve has been saved thanks to a record-breaking fundraising appeal. Generous donations were received from local residents, Devon Wildlife Trust members, the nature reserve’s own team of DWT volunteers and people from far and wide who love Bystock Pools. The well-visited wildlife haven and beauty spot, between Exmouth and East Budleigh, was put up for sale by the landowner in spring 2015, having been leased to Devon Wildlife Trust as a nature...

Half-term fun at The Donkey Sanctuary

Authored by Mary Youlden
Posted: Tue, 02/09/2016 - 11:20am

This February half term there’s plenty of fun and adventure to keep the whole family entertained at The Donkey Sanctuary, including daily grooming and face painting activities from the 13-21 February

Open from 9am to dusk every day. An array of family-friendly activities will be on offer. In addition to exciting activities, there are rescued donkeys to meet and visitors can, explore the Maze, or take a walk through the beautiful woods and amazing scenery.

Chris Phillips of The Donkey Sanctuary says “This half term we have some great exclusive activities planned. These will...

Inspectors praise RD&E

Authored by Mary Youlden
Posted: Tue, 02/09/2016 - 10:29am

The Care Quality Commission’s (CQC) inspection report published today (9 February) follows the planned inspection of the RD&E conducted last year. The CQC’s team of nearly 50 inspectors visited the RD&E last November speaking to more than 300 staff, and dozens of patients, carers and relatives and visiting clinical areas of the Trust.

The report praises the Trust’s culture as “strongly focused on quality and safety with patients being the absolute priority”. The report goes on to say this was a “consistent theme in the feedback from staff at all levels”. Seven out of eight...

Exeter Deaf Academy thanks BBC

Exeter Royal Academy for Deaf Education is sending a big thank you to BBC Bitesize for adding more subtitles to the video clips shown on their free online learning resource.

The Exeter Deaf Academy’s School Council contacted the BBC in December because subtitles for the majority of classroom video clips were unavailable and not meeting the needs of deaf students.

They rallied support from their fellow pupils, school Governors, Trustees, staff and parents, who wrote letters to Tony Hall, Director General of the BBC in support of adding more subtitling to BBC Bitesize video...

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