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WESC Foundation - The Specialist Centre for Visual Impairment based in Topsham Road, Exeter, invited local contractors involved in the refurbishment of the new WESC Assessment and Family Centre, to a guided tour of the new facilities they had helped to create.

A school and college for children, young people and adults with sight loss, WESC organised the open-house event to showcase the new centre and to thank representatives from the many local businesses who donated labour and equipment. Tracy de Berhardt Dunkin, Principal and Chief Executive and Richard Ellis Head of VI...

In an art, technology, and charitable first, Sarah Ezekiel - an artist diagnosed with Motor Neurone Disease who paints using eye-tracking technology - will be selling her work in Furniture Village stores across the UK in order to raise funds and awareness for disability charity The Matt Hampson Foundation .

British artist Sarah Ezekiel was diagnosed with Motor Neurone Disease (MND) - also known as Lou Gehrig's Disease or ALS - in 2000. Since then she has been actively raising awareness for the illness by creating pieces of art with assistive eye-tracking technology made by Swedish...

Cherition Fitzpaine Twinning Association welcomed 28 visitors from their twinned village of Bonnebosq in Normandy for an action-packed weekend.

The French visitors arrived last Friday and were given a warm welcome in Cheriton Fitzpaine Parish Hall by chairman Geoff Yeandle.

On the Friday evening lively group meals hosted at various members’ homes.

On Saturday everyone went to Exmouth for a Stuart Line cruise along the River Exe, then dined at the Nutwell Lodge.

In the evening there was a grand party held in Cheriton Fitzpaine Parish Hall and a delicious...

The Castle Drogo Youth Panel has planned a free community open evening to celebrate Museums at Night on Friday 15 May.

From 6pm until 9pm, the gates will be flung open for all local people to come up and enjoy spending time at the castle outside normal opening hours. The Youth Panel’s aim is for this to be a chilled out evening where visitors can stroll in the garden, relax on the lawns, listen to music and watch the sun go down. There will be plenty of games; and local musicians will be performing on-site too, including the fabulous Wren Music Youth Choir at 6.30pm. There will...