The high standard of diabetes care provided to inpatients at the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital has continued to improve according to the latest results of the National Inpatient Diabetes Audit (NADIA).
NADIA looks at the care of all inpatients with diabetes on a single day in all Trusts across England and Wales. It focuses on key staffing and organisational issues, clinical outcome measures and patient satisfaction levels.
The 2016 audit, completed on a day in September, shows the Trust has continued to build on its positive performance in previous years and has performed...
David’s 15. He’s doing OK. His girlfriend has an eating disorder but he’s doing OK.
Combining rich storytelling with physical theatre, Tell Me Anything is tender, raw, brutally honest boy-meets-girl story – about a boy who’s trying to be a man and a girl who doesn’t want to be rescued.
On The Run return to The Bike Shed Theatre, following UK and international tours of their sell out smash hit So It Goes .
‘An emotionally complicated piece of theatre that successfully, even rivetingly, tries to come to grips with the toll taken on a self-styled care-giver determined...
East Devon District Council's Countryside team and the Holyford Woodland Trust prepare for the annual Bluebell Day at Holyford Woods on Monday 1 May.
With this year’s Bluebell Day falling on May Day Bank Holiday the annual event is set to be as popular as ever!
For those wanting to make the most of the day, there is a free Dawn Chorus Walk at 6am starting from the Seaton Down Hill picnic site, opposite the Seaton Tower Garage. The walk, led by experienced bird-watcher, Donald Campbell, will help participants to identify the birds they see and hear as they sing to welcome in...
Mettrr Technologies has become the first company to provide financial returns for its crowd investors through a secondary share sale via a crowdfunding platform. It comes just six months after Crowdcube announced that it would pioneer secondary liquidity on its platform, delivering on its mission to help investors realise their investments.
Since raising £100,000 on Crowdcube in March 2012 from 25 crowd investors, the company has developed a market leading artificial intelligence software that builds DIFM (Do It For Me) websites for small business owners in seconds.
An employee at Exeter based law firm Browne Jacobson has raised hundreds of pounds for a local charity by taking to the skies over East Devon.
Lucy Daffin, a legal assistant in the firm’s insurance practice, took part in a 15,000ft charity skydive in Dunkeswell and raised over £700 for local Dawlish charity, Richard’s Wish.
The event was organised by Lucy and the firm’s Exeter office charity committee which has close ties with Richard’s Wish, which was appointed as Browne Jacobson’s charity for the year, 2016-17.
Richard’s Wish was set up in memory of Richard Cridge...
A dark contemporary myth about England featuring highly physical storytelling, film and animation by the former director of Bike Shed Associate Company, Rhum and Clay (64 Squares, A Strange Wild Song, Shutterland).
“In 1985, a fissure formed at England’s centre and split the north from the south. A giant tear through the landscape, a real gap, descending into an abyss of bottomless depth. And in the north, cut off, things began to stir. Beneath the moors and the rivers, in the valleys and by the sea.”
It begins with a phone call and some shocking news. A young man, seeking...
Exeter Chiefs and England star Jack Nowell says it's a "dream come true" to have been named in the British & Irish Lions squad to tour New Zealand this summer. The 24-year-old Cornishman was today named in Warren Gatland's 41-man squad for the tour, which begins on June 3 and ends on July 8. Nowell, who has scored 11 tries in 23 appearances for England, will make history by becoming the first player to be included in the squad whilst playing for the Chiefs. He is one of 16 England players named in the tour party with Wales providing 12, Ireland 11 and two from Scotland. Nowell said: "...
UK Rum Festivals are fun and enriching, for both the general public and brands, showcasing the diversity of rum!
Don’t miss out on the Exeter Rum Festival taking place 29th July at Exeter Castle, EX4 3PU. The Festival will host seminars with master distillers, cocktail bars, rum tastings sessions (over 100 different rums!), live music and a street food fiesta.
Rum is frequently overlooked, branded as either white, gold, dark or spiced… but UK Rum Festivals recognize its true value and want the public to share their passion for the spirit.
Your guide to what’s on in and around Exeter this weekend (21-23 April).
THEATRE
The Castle Builder Friday & Saturday, Bike Shed Theatre, Exeter An emotional and hard rocking journey into the hearts and souls that exist on the outer limits of creativity and building regulations. It tells the true story of an inmate in a Norwegian psychiatric institute who, over 5 years, built a castle on a remote headland. www.bikeshedtheatre.co.uk Babe, The Sheep-Pig Saturday & Sunday, Exeter Northcott Theatre Meet the lovable Babe in a heart-warming tale of friendship, adventure...
Improvements to the A379 Sandy Park Junction in Exeter have been completed ahead of schedule. The junction has been upgraded from a ‘left-in, left-out’ system to a signalised junction that now also allows right turns in and out of the site. The £2.5 million scheme improves access to Sandy Park rugby ground and David Lloyd leisure centre as well as planned developments in the Newcourt area of the city.
The new layout reduces the need for vehicles to loop around the Sandygate junction (M5 Junction 30). It also reduces the need for u-turn manoeuvres at the Russell Way junction, which...
