Every Spring and Autumn Freemasons from all around Devon meet to support local organisations and charities who are require financial assistance, amongst those included are Schools, Youth Centres and locally based charities including Hospices, Hospital Services and Cancer Charities.
The money is raised through the “WAKE FUND” a trust conceived by Right Worshipful Brother William Alexander Kneel, the Provincial Grand Master of Devonshire from 1970 to 1984, the late owner of Kneels laundry & dry cleaners (Now Johnsons). Since the idea was initiated the fund has grown through the...
One of the UK’s most threatened butterflies, the Marsh Fritillary, has recently been found at a National Trust site at Brownsham, near Hartland in North Devon. Brownsham is home to one of Britain’s rarest grassland habitats, culm grassland, which is one of the butterfly’s preferred habitats.
Brightly-coloured and speckled, the Marsh Fritillary is listed by Butterfly Conservation as one of the UK’s most threatened butterfly species, seriously declined due to habitat loss and degradation. It’s also considered vulnerable at a European level. National Trust rangers were really pleased...
Residents at RMBI Home Cadogan Court in Exeter began their new weekly fitness regime this week, pumping iron at a local gym.
Four game individuals, aged between 81 and 98, became the first care home residents to try out Motortone, a new gym specially designed for older adults, which is part of Exeter Sports Academy.
The fab four laughed and joked through their induction and first session using electrically powered gym machines which allow you to passively or actively exercise.
Motortone is designed to offer low impact exercise to help people with joint mobility,...
Christine Sawyer, woven tapestries and David Sawyer, paintings, exhibition open Wednesday to Sunday only 11am to 5pm. David Sawyer will also be playing his new sanzachord instrument on occasion during the day. Also there will be evening events on Thursday 20th (7.30pm) and 27th(7.30pm), and Friday 21st (7.00pm) and 28th (7.30pm).
Christine Sawyer, woven tapestries and David Sawyer, paintings, exhibition open Wednesday to Sunday only 11am to 5pm. David Sawyer will also be playing his new sanzachord instrument on occasion during the day. Also there will be evening events on Thursday 20th (7.30pm) and 27th(7.30pm), and Friday 21st (7.00pm) and 28th (7.30pm).
A mite that spreads a dangerous virus among honeybees also plays an indirect role in infecting wild bumblebees, new research shows.
The Varroa destructor mite lives on honeybees and can spread deformed wing virus (DWV) throughout the hive.
The mite has emerged as a parasite of Western honeybees, after switching from its original host, the Asian honeybee at the beginning of the last century. It has since spread globally through the man-made movement of infested honeybee hives and has turned into a viral vector.
The invasive mite does not live on bumblebees, but...
Exeter Junior School is celebrating recognition in the UK's oldest and most prestigious children's book awards. Two pupils have either won or achieved runner up in CILIP Kate Greenaway Children's Book Awards competitions. Year 4 pupil Kate Daybell's certificate design has been selected as a winner of the Carnegie and Greenaway Shadowers' Choice Certificate Design competition. And Year 3 pupil Lottie Cumbley is a runner up for the ALCS Carnegie and Kate Greenaway Awards Shadowing Scheme diary writing competition. The CILIP Carnegie and Kate Greenaway (CKG) Medals are the UK's oldest and...
Upgrading a vital road between London and the South West will boost the region’s economy by £40 billion and create 21,000 new jobs.
That’s the message Devon County Council has delivered in evidence at a public examination of proposals to improve the A303 by constructing a tunnel to by-pass Stonehenge. Councillor Andrea Davis, Devon County Council Cabinet Member for Infrastructure and Development, told the Planning Inspectorate hearing that improving the A303 and the A30 and A358 “swallow-tail” was critical to the future prosperity of the South West. Studies commissioned by a...
Responding to the needs of the local communities in and around Seaton and Axminster, Hospiscare@Home provides 24/7 hands-on nursing support at home for people with a life-limiting illness in the final months or weeks of life. The service is provided by local charity Hospiscare and is generously supported by Seaton & District Hospital League of Friends and The League of Friends of Axminster Hospital.
Mrs Glenys O’Hara, aged 81 from Seaton and a Hospiscare@Home patient, explains why the service is so important.
“Before I had cancer my husband, Tom, and I had a very active...
From 3 June 2019, charges at Underhill long stay car park in Lympstone, Dolphin Street car park in Colyton, Land of Canaan car park in Ottery St Mary and Coombe Lane car park in Axminster will all be increased to 50p per half hour (£1 per hour), which is a standard tariff charged by all other car parks in East Devon. The increases were approved by East Devon District Council’s Cabinet in September 2018, following a public consultation in April 2018, the results of which led to a number of proposals being put to Cabinet. The council has listened carefully to what was said during the public...
