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Exeter ranked move-friendly city

Exeter has been named one of the UK’s least stressful cities to move to, thanks to strong infrastructure, good housing availability, and ease of access to short-term services.

In a new national study released by Pay Less for Storage, Exeter scored 74 out of 100 in the “move-friendliness” index, ranking joint 10th alongside Inverness, Lancaster and Ripon. The research measured practical relocation challenges like van hire access, local self-storage options, chain-free housing stock, and the availability of short-term rentals.

Top-ranking cities included Salford, Cambridge...

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Exeter diabetes researchers recognised as “Rising Stars”

Two researchers at the University of Exeter Medical School have been recognised as rising stars in diabetes research.

Dr Andrew Wood and Dr Hanieh Yaghootkar have been awarded two of just four €30,000 (£25,500) awards made across Europe, from the European Association for the Study of Diabetes e.V. (EASD). The award, made under the Rising Star Fellowship Programme and supported by global healthcare company Novo Nordisk, is designed to fund selected research projects of promising and innovative young researchers. Winning academics also give a presentation to the EASD Annual Meeting,...

Award-winning authors and broadcasters headline Budleigh’s 9th annual Literary Festival

The line-up of best-selling authors and budding literary stars for the annual Budleigh Salterton Literary Festival has been announced.

Now in its ninth year, the themes of the 2017 Festival will be nature, wildlife and history, including family history and memoir. There will also be magical events for children to help mark the 20th anniversary of the first Harry Potter book.

The opening day of the Festival on 13th September will include an “in-conversation” event with Festival President, Dame Hilary Mantel MBE, who’s eagerly anticipated final book in her Cromwell trilogy is...

Appeal after strimmer stolen in Exmouth

Authored by News Desk
Posted: Sat, 06/24/2017 - 2:57pm

Police in Exmouth are appealing for information after power a petrol strimmer worth around £200 was stolen from behind a van in the Littleham area of Exmouth.

The offence took place in the Louisa Terrace area of Littleham, Exmouth at around 12.30pm on Wednesday 14 June.

PC Ian Schofield said: “At the time, a contract gardener was packing his gear into his van when the Stihl FS 55 two-stroke petrol strimmer was stolen. He had left the strimmer outside the back of his van when an unknown young man walked up to the van, took the strimmer and then ran to another van and drove...

New tapestry reflects the words that mean the most to hospital chaplains past and present

Authored by Mary Youlden
Posted: Sat, 06/24/2017 - 12:05pm

The favourite quotes and sayings of Chaplains who have served the Royal Devon & Exeter Hospital over the last 21 years have been carefully crafted into a new piece of artwork for the hospital’s chaplaincy centre thanks to a donation from the League of Friends.

The new ‘Threads and Ripples’ tapestry, by renowned Devon textile artist Jacqui Parkinson, will be displayed on the wall in the chaplaincy centre to offer comfort and solace to those who choose to visit the space.

The RD&E’s multi-faith chaplaincy team provide pastoral support and spiritual and religious care...

Hospital Radio Exeter needs volunteers

Hospital Radio Exeter broadcasts to the largest Hospital in Exeter, the Royal Devon & Exeter Hospital (Wonford) and are looking for new volunteers aged 18 and over, from all backgrounds.

Hospital Radio Exeter uses professional quality equipment and state of the art technology to provide a 24 hour service, 7 days a week and we are currently looking for new faces to join our friendly team of dedicated and hard working volunteers.

They are looking for:

Audio engineer (Radio) with a computer background Fundraising/publicity officer Ward visitors

Volunteers...

Trading Standards donates counterfeit clothes mountain to charity

Authored by News Desk
Posted: Sat, 06/24/2017 - 6:50am

Around 5,000 seized items of counterfeit clothes have been donated to the charity Planet Zero by Devon, Somerset and Torbay Trading Standards Service.

The mainly counterfeit goods, which include track suits, t-shirts, sweatshirts and trainers, are the result of seizures by trading standards officers across the area.

On Friday trading standards officers packed a lorry bound for the charity, which collects unwanted clothes for a good cause, full of clothes.

The clothes were stored at the service's secure compound in Somerset.

Every year thousands of products...

Take a walk back to the 80s with Hospiscare Twilight Walk!

Authored by Hospiscare
Posted: Sat, 06/24/2017 - 6:31am

It’s the final countdown! Time is fast running out to enrol in the Eighties-themed Twilight Walk on Saturday 8th July.

Remember, this is an exclusively female event: on this occasion, sisters are doing it for themselves! Join up today and raise loadsamoney for Exeter’s well known and popular local charity Hospiscare, an organisation which itself started in the Eighties (in 1982, to be precise).

The Twilight Walk is a 5-mile or new 10-mile themed sponsored walk around Exmouth Seafront with entertainment provided all along the route. The walk starts from The Maer, Exmouth....

Jim swaps crime for grime in new business venture

Authored by Marc Astley
Posted: Fri, 06/23/2017 - 11:54pm

He’s spent 22 ½ years fighting crime and now former Devon police Sergeant Jim Humphrey has launched a war on grime.

For Jim has taken over the South West region of Ecocleen Services, a national franchise which offers a range of services including cleaning up to an industrial scale.

The veteran cop will be known to residents of East Devon for his role as the Neighbourhood Team Sergeant for Honiton and Axminster where he spent the last three years of his career.

But he has swapped pounding the beat for a career in business taking on over 50 clients and 70 staff from...

Countdown to the 11th Dartmoor Classic begins

The countdown to the eleventh annual Dartmoor Classic Sportive, which takes place on Sunday 02 July, is on, and organisers are looking forward to yet another successful event.

Up to 3,500 riders will participate, with entrants travelling from as far as Australia, Brazil, France, Portugal, Belgium, Switzerland, Netherlands, Bulgaria, the USA, Canada, Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Sri Lanka, Philippines, Spain, Italy and Ireland.

The riders will tackle one of three routes; the 35 mile piccolo route, the 68 mile medio route and the 107 mile grande route. The routes are designed...

Motorists urged to be vigilant after spate of vehicle crimes in East Devon

Authored by News Desk
Posted: Fri, 06/23/2017 - 3:01pm

Honda Accords were targeted over the weekend, as car parts were removed and almost £5,000 worth of tools were stolen from two vans.

Between 5.30pm on Sunday 18 June and 8am on Monday 19 June an exhaust and a catalytic converter was cut off a blue Honda Accord that was parked in the Fraser Road area of Exmouth. Another catalytic converter was stolen with another having been removed from a bronze Honda Accord in the Moormead area of Budleigh Salterton during a similar time-frame.

Exmouth police are also investigating after thieves’ targeted vehicles over the weekend period...

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