Multi award-winning Cofton Holidays is hosting a free health and wellbeing weekend packed full of activities for individuals and the family from Friday 1st March to Sunday 3rd March. The event will take place at Ashburn Springs Spa and Leisure featuring its gym and fitness studios.
The event marks the completion of a £17,000 upgrade in new gym equipment at the South Devon holiday park. Visitors who are keen to stay fit and healthy throughout 2019 can now enjoy a muscle working squat rack plus new treadmills and bikes that will get the heart pumping.
Essential resurfacing work will be carried out in the centre of Bradninch from the end of February.
A number of roads will be closed throughout the scheme, which is expected to take around five weeks.
From Monday 25 February until Friday 15 March, preparatory work will get underway in Millway and then followed by Fore Street.
The main work in the scheme will be carried out from Monday 18 March, again starting in Millway, and then moving on to High Street, Fore Street, and then part of Cullompton Hill.
The roads will undergo separate closures during weekdays...
Local Devon based Artist Becky Bettesworth was absolutely thrilled when the Community Services Team at the Albany Clinic in Newton Abbot asked her to donate one of her prints for their newly redecorated kitchen.
Becky said “It was an absolute pleasure to be asked to open the newly decorated kitchen facilities for the Community Services Team. The staff chose my Go with the Flow artwork print and I was so happy to donate this to them. The League of Friends fundraised and raised the money to have it framed which was brilliant”. To celebrate this new space for the staff, the Team did a...
Experts will work to discover if commercial fishing is harming endangered African penguins by making it harder to forage for food in the ocean.
Dr Richard Sherley from the University of Exeter will use GPS tracking and other technology to follow penguins in South Africa to record how deep they have to dive and how far they have to travel to find fish.
Penguins eat sardines and anchovies, which are also fished commercially, and the study will help researchers better understand the cost of this to penguin populations. The study could lead to solutions for more sustainable...
Browsing through the glamorous Insta-posts, have you ever wished you could get as good a picture as theirs? Of course you have. We all have. We are a generation that’s obsessed with photographs. And why shouldn’t we be? Photos are a brilliant way to reach out, flaunt and preserve precious moments in moments in life.
While we are extremely fortunate, as we can pick a great photo editor for PC and enhance our photos whenever we want, here are a few tips that would help you capture much greater shots and keep those “likes” flooding in.
Hall & Woodhouse, the leading independent family-owned Dorset brewer, has raised £114,287 in aid of eight local air ambulance charities in the past year, including Devon Air Ambulance.
At the beginning of 2018, Hall & Woodhouse’s (H&W) team members voted to make the eight Air Ambulances their official charity partners until 2020. Through the partnership, Devon, Dorset and Somerset, Great Western, Hampshire and Isle of Wight, Kent Surrey Sussex, London, Thames Valley and Wiltshire Air Ambulance will receive support from the company.
Exeter Racecourse is one of a number of venues to have scheduled horse racing meetings cancelled following an outbreak of equine flu.
Upon discovering positive cases of the highly contagious virus in horses trained by Cheshire handler Donald McCain and Newmarket trainer Simon Crisford, the sport's governing body, the British Horseracing Authority (BHA), called a temporary halt to competition.
A six-day blanket ban meant the traditional card at Exeter on the second Sunday in February was one of 23 meetings that could not go ahead. The McCain stable had runners at the West...
If you own a device which counts the number of steps you take each day, you can team up with work colleagues and enter a Devon wide challenge!
The ‘Big Devon March’* encourages employees to get out of the office and raise heart rates a little! If becoming healthier isn’t incentive enough, there are also prizes on offer for those workplaces which lead the way in striding out across the county. Individuals can sign up alongside work colleagues and start ‘collecting’ steps! Those who achieve the highest average numbers will put their company on the leaderboard!
Do you know how your workforce feels about working for you? Are you under the impression that everything is fine because nobody has said anything to the contrary? There’s a direct link between employee satisfaction and company success. Once you find out how your employees feel, it’s guaranteed to help your business. If your employees are happy, they will be more committed and productive. How do you discover whether your employees feel satisfied working for you, or whether they wish to change specific elements? An employee satisfaction survey is an ideal way to do so, and below we’ve listed...
