Leading local advice charity, Citizens Advice Exeter, has launched its fifth economic well-being survey.
The survey, in partnership with the Express and Echo, Radio Exe, Exeter City Council and Exeter Chamber of Commerce, will highlight the current financial and employment situation in Exeter. It will help Citizens Advice Exeter to highlight trends with policy-makers and to further tailor their advice and information resources to meet the needs of local people.
The anonymous survey can be found on the Home Page of the Citizens Advice Exeter website – www....
Ken White Signs, located in Tiverton is continuing its ‘giving back to the local community’ in celebration of 50-years in business, by organising a charity summer fun run in aid of CLIC Sargent.
Ken White and his late wife Jean, started the company in 1967 in their home town of Tiverton and today all three of Ken’s sons work in the business.
The Devon-based family-run company has been supporting many local charities, independent retailers and schools by giving away bespoke designed promotional banners and window graphic displays to help the local community as part of their...
On 15 June, the streets of Exeter were filled with people spreading the word of ‘ataxia:’ a progressive and debilitating neurological condition that affects 10,000 people in the UK.
Yesterday afternoon in Bedford Square, members of Ataxia UK’s South West Branch held an awareness stall as part of a local awareness campaign, asking the public: ‘I know what ataxia is, do you?’
Ataxia affects mobility, speech and movement. It’s progressive, and there’s no cure. Its symptoms mimic inebriation and only 10% of the population have heard of it. People with ataxia have been asked to...
WALKERS of Eden Project’s Great Big Walk started their day’s journey at Addaction RISE in Exeter, sharing breakfast with volunteers, clients and staff at the drug and alcohol charity to hear how it supports the community.
The Great Big Walk started at Batley, where Jo Cox was MP, and five different teams headed off on a 21 day journey to Cornwall, London, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. Along their route they are stopping at community projects and initiatives to spend time with and celebrate the people who go the extra mile to bring communities together.
Devon County Council’s (DCC) cabinet has supported a £15.15million increase in adult social care funding for 2017/2018 to help older people regain their independence following NHS treatment.
The money was announced in the spring 2017 Budget as part of a national directive. In total £30.34million will be provided over three years through the Better Care Fund.
The £15.15milion for the first year was agreed in principle at DCC’s Cabinet Meeting on Wednesday 14 June.
This money is additional to the extra £18.7million allocated to adult care and health in February 2017...
A SCIENTIST in Exeter is urging women to back life-saving research - by signing up for Cancer Research UK’s Race for Life.
Prof Willie Hamilton, lead researcher and professor of primary care diagnostics at the University of Exeter, has spent much of his career working in collaboration to help discover new and more effective ways to diagnose cancer by applying different methods to GP surgeries.
As a GP himself he has dedicated his working life to studying which cancer symptoms are the most important, so that GPs can more readily spot potential cancer at an earlier stage. He...
Devon County Council’s Cabinet has agreed plans to build a new £5.7 million junction off the A361 near Tiverton.
Approval of the Tiverton Eastern Urban Extension access junction by councillors means that work is now expected to start on phase one of the scheme in September. However, concern was raised at the meeting that the Local Transport Board has so far only agreed to provide £250,000 of funding, rather than £1.5 million that was expected.
The funding currently available will enable the development of the access junction to the A361 to be started, along with landscaping...
On Friday 30th June, British rowing champion James Cracknell OBE, will lead a group run through Exeter’s City Centre to raise awareness of Children’s Hospice South West’s (CHSW) being one of the chosen charities of Exeter’s Great West Run, which is taking place in the City later this year.
Owner of Exeter’s Great West Run, the double Olympic gold medallist will be joined on the run by several running supporters of CHSW, including a team from the Exeter offices of Girling Jones. The group will set off from the charity’s shop on Sidwell Street following a route down the High Street,...
Local renewables company, Beco, have recently been commended for their work at the Energy Efficiency and Healthy Homes Awards 2017.
The Totnes-based company which has been specialising in renewable energy solutions for 40 years, were commended for their work in two categories, Small Scale Project of the Year and Vulnerable Customer Support of the Year, thanks to their work on The Shine Project which provided renewable solar energy to tenants of South Devon Rural Housing Association across Devon’s South Hams area.
The Shine Project was an initiative launched in March 2015,...
Police are seeking witnesses after officers were notified of an alleged racially aggravated public order offence outside the Islamic Centre in Exeter on Saturday 10 June 2017.
The incident occurred around 8.30pm just after a peace walk and vigil in Bedford Square, Exeter, which had been arrange by Exeter Mosque and attended by hundreds of people.
Shortly after the vigil, three men attended Exeter Mosque and allegedly made racially aggravated verbally abusive comments to those within.
A 31-year-old man, a 26-year-old and a 24-year-old were arrested on suspicion of...
