The UK’s youngest feature film director has been inspired by his great-grandfather’s epic battle for survival during World War Two for his debut movie.
University of Exeter history student Elliott Hasler will have his film released on major viewing platforms aged just 20.
Inspired by Elliott’s great-grandfather’s own experiences, WWII – The Long Road Home depicts an escaped British POW’s epic battle for survival whilst on the run in war-torn Italy, as his wife and young son anxiously await news in England.
Filming was completed when Elliott was just 16 years old...
Two students from University of Exeter have won £5,000 in prize money and $250 in Amazon Web Services (AWS) credits via the AWS Educate Programme after taking part in Amazon UK’s first ever Campus Challenge competition.
The winning team includes Ben Fleming (22), Quinn Leatherbarrow-Stokes (23) who are studying at University of Exeter and their friend, Nikolaus Porsch (23) who is studying at City University London.
The Amazon Campus Challenge offers students the opportunity to work with real companies and start-ups to help them grow their business on Amazon and reach...
A government-led project is successfully detecting traces of coronavirus in sewage, providing an early warning for local outbreaks across the country and sharing data with NHS Test and Trace.
The programme, which was first announced in June, has now proven that fragments of genetic material from the virus can be detected in wastewater. This can then indicate where a local community or an institution is experiencing a spike in cases.
The results can provide local health professionals with a clearer picture of infection rates by identifying where there are high numbers,...
It is vital not to turn a blind eye to your credit report. Even though your business is making you too busy, or you are just full of fear of what you will see concerning your business credit score. Whatever the case, it is best to have an idea of how your credit reports and scores look. Also, you can get some red flags that will help you know that something is amiss, and your credit score is in a danger zone. For instance, when your score is below 600, it is considered a bad credit score. Plus, you can look for ways to boost your score like, contacting companies that help build business...
South west based legal firm, Linnitts Solicitors, used the UK Lockdown to reassess who they are as a brand as they look to better portray their offering of being beyond the standard legal services many other contemporaries offer. With all of the doom and gloom we have become accustomed to this year, this rebrand also represents an industry that is holding its own and fighting to stay relevant to the modern day individual, in order to survive whatever the future may hold.
Previously known as Linnitts Solicitors, the rebrand has seen the firm become Beyond Legal, to literally...
There’s nothing better than spending your free time relaxing on your terrace - having your own outdoor seating area gives you a chance to enjoy a free afternoon or holding dinner for your guests outside. But before any of that is possible, there’s one more thing left to do - designing a terrace that’s comfortable and beautiful at the same time. So how exactly can you do it?
Create a terrace you’ll enjoy anytime
There seems to be a common belief that you can enjoy spending time on your terrace only when the weather is nice. And it’s simply not the case - with the right design, you...
Plymouth is the place where history is being made these days. The world’s first-ever electric passenger ferry is undergoing the last checks before taking on the world. Okay, maybe not the world as it will operate in Plymouth, but it could set up a precedence for years to come. A couple of UK universities united to launch a zero-carbon e-voyager. This means that you can save the world climate and bet on TonyBet here at the same time!
The whole project cost £1.4million, which seems like a low price to pay for an innovation like this. Not only that, but it could potentially save...
Contractor Willmott Dixon, currently delivering several major projects in Exeter, is aiming to lead the construction sector with a series of ambitious commitments set out in its newly released sustainability strategy.
Entitled ‘Now or Never; our decisive decade’, the strategy includes the commitment that Willmott Dixon will become net zero carbon in its operations by 2030, with all new build and refurbishment projects delivered from 2030 also net zero carbon in use. It is also aiming for its supply chain partners to be net zero carbon by 2040; the first UK construction company to...
In what has been the strangest, toughest, yet - at the same time - most memorable Premiership Rugby campaign ever, it now comes down to just one final fixture.
For the newly-crowned European champions, Exeter Chiefs will rock up at Twickenham tomorrow for a fifth successive outing in the end of season showpiece (6pm).
Rob Baxter's side are well-versed in prepping for a big day out at English Rugby's HQ, but that doesn't mean they merely have to turn up and believe a potential domestic and European double is a mere formality.
Nature is full of gifts for humanity. If there is a problem, there is a big chance that nature already has its solution. We may haven’t discovered it yet, but it is there, and we just need to find out how and where. CBD is a fine example of one such gift of nature. There are countless benefits of CBD, and scientists all around the world are still conducting research to uncover and discover the potential of CBD in the medical field. It is believed that CBD could be a potential candidate to treat diseases like epilepsy. However, it is too early anything about it because it is still a work...
