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Finding Balance: Exeter’s Favourite Ways to Unwind at Home

In today’s fast-paced world, striking a balance between work and relaxation is vital for overall well-being. For many residents of Exeter, the end of the working day signals a shift from productivity to personal time—a chance to unwind, recharge, and enjoy simple pleasures in the comfort of home. Whether it’s through quiet hobbies, digital entertainment, or mindful self-care, Exeter locals have cultivated a variety of relaxing evening routines that help them maintain a balanced lifestyle.

Reading for Relaxation and Mental Health

Reading has long been cherished as a way to unwind...

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National Apprenticeship Week: helping our young people and building the country’s skills base

Amongst the terrible human cost of the Covid-19 crisis, the impact on our country’s young people and their prospects is of major concern. Research published last year by the Resolution Foundation suggested that youth unemployment will not return to pre-pandemic levels for at least another four years, with unemployment between 18 to 29-year-olds predicted to mushroom to levels last seen in the 1980s before the picture improves.

New initiatives to help young people have been launched by governments across the UK to help deliver new employment opportunities and ensure this critical...

Traffic signal replacement in Exeter

Traffic signals at the junction of Cowick Street and Buddle Lane in Exeter are to be replaced from next week.

Work will start on the lights on Monday 15 February and is expected to continue until Friday 12 March.

The scheme also includes replacing the signals at the pedestrian crossing near the access road to Bowhill Primary School.

Temporary traffic lights will be in place to replicate the permanent signals as much as possible for the duration of the work.

The left turn from Cowick Lane to Dunsford Road will need to be temporarily closed to enable work...

NHS sets out how to access the coronavirus vaccination in Devon

The NHS in Devon is giving details on the different ways local people can access the life-saving coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccination in the county, as thousands of people are vaccinated every day.

Like other areas, the vaccination programme in Devon is focussed on vaccinating people in priority groups 1-4 , as determined nationally by the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation and in line with the Government ambition of vaccinating these groups by mid-February. These four groups are

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Nominate your Dementia Hero

Individuals and organisations in Devon who have gone the extra mile to support people affected by dementia over the past year could be recognised at a prestigious national awards ceremony.

Nominations are now open for Alzheimer’s Society’s Dementia Heroes Awards 2021 which will be hosted by Alzheimer’s Society supporter and TV presenter, writer and journalist Richard Madeley in May.

The awards, which are sponsored by Tunstall Healthcare, will take place virtually due to the coronavirus pandemic on Thursday 20 May during Dementia Action Week (17-23 May) and will showcase...

Fabulous response to Wildlife at Home photography competition

Organisers or a wildlife at home photography competition have been bowled over by the high standard of entries.

Exeter City Council and Devon Wildlife Trust received 93 entries for the competition, with dozens of stunning images.

In the end it was David Flint’s close-up of a garden dragonfly that impressed judges the most. David will receive a book on Wildlife Gardening, kindly donated by Devon Wildlife Trust (DWT) for his efforts.

Eleven-year-old Oliver Marsh won the junior category with his shot of a robin on a bench. Oliver will also receive a book of...

Measures introduced to support walking and cycling

A number of measures to support walking and cycling have been introduced or proposed as part of the second phase of Emergency Active Travel Funding projects.

Devon was awarded almost £1.3 million from the Department for Transport to provide safer routes for pedestrians and cyclists following the reduction of public transport capacity due to social distancing requirements during the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.

A new pedestrian and cycle crossing has been installed at Countess Wear roundabout, and a new crossing has also been completed at Russell Way to extend the E9...

Devon set for sub-zero conditions

Freezing conditions are set to return to Devon this weekend ahead of a prolonged cold spell forecast throughout next week.

Devon County Council is warning of the potential for icy conditions overnight, with road surface temperatures across the county expected to drop below zero this evening, and the Met Office has issued a Yellow Weather Warning for ice from midnight tonight until 9am tomorrow morning.

Gritters will be treating most of the main precautionary salting routes this evening and then monitoring conditions overnight.

Devon County Council has used over...

Helping hairdressers spot the signs of domestic abuse

Devon CIC More Positive Me is organising a free webinar to help hairdressers spot the signs of domestic abuse. The webinar will give them the information they need to start a conversation and signpost victims to organisations that can help them.

Funded by East & Mid Devon Community Safety Partnership, the live webinar is taking place on February 17 at 7pm, by invite only. From February 18 the recording will be available as part of a short course for any hairdressers to sign up to.

Jeanette Brown and Debbie Coleiro, founders of More Positive Me who both have lived...

Music In Devon Initiative Presents... MIDI TV

Presented by local artist Abbe Martin from the Sound of the Sirens, MIDI TV promises a fun, modern and highly entertaining series of shows to be released each month, starting with the first episode launching on Saturday 20th February at 8pm.

Viewers can head to MIDI TV socials and YouTube to tune in, and can subscribe and comment to let the team know what they’ve enjoyed and want to see more of – giving a real community input to what audiences want to see and hear. Coupled with this is some real ‘90’s fun, with their own MIDI TV PacMan challenge which will see artists go head-to-...

Topsham Allotments & Gardens creates accessible plot to help resident grows trees for local area

RGB Building Supplies recently donated a flooring system to Topsham Allotments & Gardens so it could create awheelchair accessible plot for use by local resident Sarah Piercy.

Sarah has swapped being a record breaking wheelchair athlete – she won the 2000 London Marathon women’s wheelchair event on her first attempt and has since completed nine further London Marathons, as well as becoming the world speed record holder for a woman in a handbike – for growing tree seedlings to plant in the local area.

With advice from Topsham resident Matt Leigh, who works as a...

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Finding Balance: Exeter’s Favourite Ways to Unwind at Home

National Apprenticeship Week: helping our young people and building the country’s skills base

Traffic signal replacement in Exeter

NHS sets out how to access the coronavirus vaccination in Devon

Nominate your Dementia Hero

Fabulous response to Wildlife at Home photography competition

Measures introduced to support walking and cycling

Devon set for sub-zero conditions

Helping hairdressers spot the signs of domestic abuse

Music In Devon Initiative Presents... MIDI TV

Topsham Allotments & Gardens creates accessible plot to help resident grows trees for local area

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