Naturally, if you are a business owner then you may be feeling a bit concerned about the future due to Covid-19. The last few months have seen many brands close up their stones in order to protect their clients from the Coronavirus. With your employees and clients no longer being allowed to step foot inside of your office or your store, or at least feeling nervous about doing so, you will need to figure out different ways to keep up business communications and collaborations. Covid-19 has changed how we make business transactions, That’s why you need to know exactly what you need...
A chance passing of a buoy on the ‘wrong’ side saved the life of a stranded swimmer, Exeter City Council has revealed.
The fortunate swimmer – who was suffering the early stages of hypothermia - was plucked out of the Exe Estuary one mile from shore by the City Council’s Harbour Patrol team. The rescue happened last Wednesday.
The team would have missed the swimmer, who was clinging onto the base of the navigational marker, if they had kept the buoy on the port (left-hand) side of the boat. Instead, skipper and Harbourmaster Grahame Forshaw decided to pass with the buoy...
Exeter Airport welcomes the return of flights to Manchester and Jersey from today, both served by Blue Islands.
Services to Manchester and Jersey were core to the airport over a number of years, attracting thousands of regular travellers from the South West, serving business and leisure passengers.
Rob Veron, Blue Islands CEO said: “We are very pleased to reinstate two very popular routes from Exeter. The flights will initially operate three days a week, and for next summer we will increase frequencies with Manchester served three times a day and Jersey once a day....
On 1 September 2020, Professor Lisa Roberts becomes the new Vice-Chancellor and Chief Executive at the University of Exeter. She takes over from Professor Sir Steve Smith who is retiring from the role and who has held the post since October 2002.
Sir Steve is amongst the longest-serving and most successful Vice-Chancellors of his generation and he has taken the University from strength to strength over a period of nearly 20 years. During his leadership the University secured Russell Group status and is now consistently ranked as one of the top 15 universities in the UK and the...
If you are considering moving abroad, whether permanently or temporarily, and New Zealand is on your shortlist, then you really need to know what you are getting yourself into. Moving abroad can be bittersweet, inducing feelings ranging from excitement to fear; after all, you are practically jumping into the unknown. New Zealand, or “The Land of the Long White Cloud” as its native inhabitants the Māori call it, may be a destination on the bucket list of many, but is it the ideal destination for a long-term stay? Here is what you need to know about living in New Zealand.
Linguist and philosopher, Noam Chomsky, will speak to Professor Robert Lamb from the University of Exeter, in a free online event.
Often called the ‘founder of modern linguistics’, Chomsky will answer audience questions, focusing on the topic of free speech, live from Tucson in the United States on 11 September.
He will be in conversation with Robert Lamb , Professor of Political Philosophy at the University of Exeter and Director of the Institute for Cultural Enquiry.
In July this year, Chomsky put his name to the ‘Letter on Justice and Open Debate’, which was...
Co-op is set to serve-up a new food store in Exeter this week following a more than £625,000 investment creating 13 local jobs.
The new convenience store, located in Belgrave Road at The Depot, will run on 100% renewable electricity and open between 7am-Midnight daily.
Opening on Friday, 4, September, the purpose-built new store includes: Costa coffee express, Amazon Lockers, and bakery alongside a focus on fresh, heathy produce, award winning wines, ready meals and pizzas, free-from and vegan products, Fairtrade, food-to-go and, everyday essentials.
In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, with mass unemployment and a global recession on the horizon, now is a better time than any to learn how to be good with your money. We have, in the west at least, become accustomed to throwing our money away and making frivolous and very unnecessary purchases. This page will hope to tell you a few tricks and tips that you can use to learn to be good with your money. Frugality is a quality that many people need to cultivate, more now than ever; needlessly spending your money is dangerous, you might learn more here .
Committed to showcasing ideas worth spreading within Exeter's student community, we are hosting Exeter's first ever TEDx Youth event this November. TEDx Youth Gandy Street is an independently organised youth conference arriving virtually in Exeter on November 21st, 2020. We are an event focused on spreading the innovative and pioneering ideas of young people throughout Exeter. Our goal is to ‘bridge the gap’ by creating a sustainable and collaborative future for generations to come.
Our event is an independently organised conference held on licence from TED. Organised and presented...
Your financial standing and overall living conditions are determined by your credit score. Such a score represents a numeric value of the creditworthiness of you as a consumer, whenever you take a loan or make a big purchase for instance. The higher your credit score is, the better your creditworthiness to your lenders will be. It is also specified according to the credit history, which includes payment history, total debt levels, and amount of open accounts, among other aspects. Lenders typically resort to credit scores to estimate the likelihood of whether a person will repay loans in...
