Residents at Millbrook Village retirement community, in Exeter, have gone all out this year, enjoying an array of socially-distanced festive activities to remember, from a ‘night of lights’ and wreath making, to the ultimate ‘North Pole Fitness Challenge’.
The village team at Millbrook, which is which is operated by award-winning later living provider Inspired Villages, has demonstrated that Christmas doesn’t have to be cancelled at the village this year, working with residents to create a timetable of festive celebrations to remember.
According to Shaman Aayla Everybody complains. Being trapped in traffic, burning in the sun at a sporting event, or because prices rise and bills pile up… we all complain. Even when complaining is inherently negative, deep down it has some value: it is a great social unifier. People can, and do continually, build links from shared complaints.
Shaman Aayla argue that when the line at the store is long and slow, you share your complaint by looking at the person in front of you and perhaps you end up in a relationship. That happened to me recently and the woman and I ended up...
Taylor Wimpey Exeter has helped to feed and house vulnerable people across Devon this Christmas by pledging £3,000 worth of support to three county charities.
Staff chose to give £1,000 each to foodbanks in Exeter and Plymouth, as well as to St Petrock’s, Exeter's charity for people who are homeless or vulnerably housed.
Members of the charity committee also created food collection points at their head office in Exeter and the Cranbrook and Sherford developments, on the outskirts of Exeter and Plymouth. Thanks to kind donations from staff, suppliers and customers, vital...
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South Western Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust (SWASFT) is reminding people only to call 999 in a genuine life-threatening emergency this Christmas.
The trust is anticipating a high demand for the 999 service over the festive period, due to the ongoing coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic alongside normal winter pressures.
It has dealt with around 2,650 calls a day so far this month, and expects the final nine days to be among its busiest of the year.
SWASFT has revealed another selection of inappropriate emergency calls made to its control room recently:...
Three companies have been selected to roll-out full fibre broadband networks on behalf of the Connecting Devon and Somerset (CDS) programme, backed by Government funding. Airband, Truespeed and Wessex Internet will be installing full fibre broadband across Devon and Somerset to more than 56,000 rural homes and businesses over the next four years. The combined public and private sector investment of around £80million will be in the vanguard of the Government’s ambitions to build a Gigabit capable network across the UK. The three companies all have experience of working in the region and,...
The fundraising target for Rusty Pig’s ‘Ho Ho Hospiscare’ draw was totally smashed after the local community in Ottery St Mary and surrounding villages showed support for the event.
The initial aim was to raise £500 but by the night of the draw the total had reached £2300. And there was an extra surprise to come with and additional donation of an extra £250 from PASC, an organisation providing support for self-catering businesses, bringing the final total to an amazing £2,550 - equating to a whopping 400 percent increase!
The top prize was a stay for four people at Mazzard...
The issue of losing excess hair can be temporary or permanent, and It is much more common In men. There are many factors with a potential contribution to losing hair. There are also many treatment options available to help men handle it. This article will provide you with essential pieces of information about this topic and the conclusion of the most suitable method of treating unfortunate hair loss.
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Male pattern baldness, also known as androgenetic alopecia, causes the majority of incidences of male hair loss. However, there are many other reasons a man...
If you like coffee, this article is a must-read. You'll be brewing the ultimate black coffee with the best-filtered coffee machine, so all you'll have to do is add milk (if you please) to replicate all those wonderful coffee shop tastes.
Filter coffee makers can make a tasty black coffee cup or you can simply add a small amount of milk if you want a milky coffee, cold or hot, which avoids the chore of foaming milk that you have grown used to for iced coffees and lattes. A filtered coffee machine effectively is an easy-to-use, easy to set up and easy to clean device with no mess,...
