Another award for Dr Ros and team!

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Posted: Mon, 03/14/2016 - 10:03pm

A Devon medispa has scooped the top accolade at the industry’s most prestigious award ceremony.

Radiance MediSpa, on New North Road in Exeter, has won Medical Aesthetic Clinic of the Year at the Professional Beauty Awards 2016.

Up against the very best salon spas across the country, Dr Ros Debenham’s Radiance MediSpa was the number one choice of the judges in the Medical Aesthetic Clinic of the Year category. The award recognises companies who deliver excellent service in providing treatments such as Botox, dermal fillers, fat freezing and laser treatments for customers....

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On 16th March, Families for Children, along with many adoption agencies across England, will be opening their doors simultaneously to enquiring adopters and hosting a Big Adoption Day, a national adoption information event.

There will be over 30 events being held across England and their aim is to reinforce the message that adopters continue to be needed for our most vulnerable children in the care system.

Prospective adopters attending a Big Adoption Day will have the opportunity to meet adoption experts in an informal and friendly environment. As well as being able to ask...

More young people at risk of heart attack than previously thought

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Posted: Mon, 03/14/2016 - 8:04pm

A new study has found that twice as many people than previously thought may be living with genetic condition that can cause a deadly heart attack at a young age.

Research, published in the journal Circulation, looked at 37,000 people from the US and found that Familial Hypercholesterolemia (FH) prevalence should be one in 250 rather than the previous estimate of one in 500.

FH is a genetic condition which results in high levels of cholesterol in your blood from birth. This increases a person’s risk of suffering from a heart attack or heart disease at an early age if left...

National fame for farming couple

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Posted: Mon, 03/14/2016 - 7:08pm

WINNING top awards for their produce has secured local farmers Neil and Sally Grigg a feature in a prestigious national magazine.

Neil and Sally, who run a farm near Broadclyst, are featured in this week’s Country Life magazine.

The couple are tenants on a 400 acre National Trust farm which is part of the Killerton Estate, where they have been farming their own herd of Red Ruby cattle since 2007. This month’s Country Life, features them talking about their entry into farming, following careers as an accountant and rural surveyor.

Neil said: ‘We always wanted to move...

Exeter's first social pitch night

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Posted: Mon, 03/14/2016 - 6:42pm

Social enterprise subgroup of Exeter Chamber of Commerce, ESSENCE, will be holding Exeter’s First Social Pitch Night on Wednesday 13th April at The Generator, Dix’s Field from 4pm.

ESSENCE is an active peer-support network for social enterprises and co-operatives, social businesses and those that support social aims.

The evening will be host to businesses across the city interested in the social enterprise sector and will give the chance to hear a range of social start up ideas and new project/product launches from a range of local organisations keen to win prizes and...

Virtual reality slaughter house coming to Exeter

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Posted: Mon, 03/14/2016 - 1:25pm

Paul McCartney once famously said ‘If slaughterhouses had glass walls, we would all be vegetarians’… but of course they don’t, and most people remain unaware of the lives and deaths of animals bred for food. But now all that is changing with Animal Equality becoming the first animal protection group in the world to transport people inside factory farms and slaughterhouses via virtual reality technology.

Exeter will be the first stop for the international organisation’s iAnimal project, a virtual reality experience filmed over the past 18 months inside pig farms in the UK, Germany...

Top ranking for Devon travel consultant

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Posted: Mon, 03/14/2016 - 1:15pm

A specialist Devon-based travel consultant has been ranked as one the top sellers of tailor-made holidays to Canada.

Irene Cox of Nomadic Travel, on Gandy Street in Exeter, was shortlisted for the ‘Best Canada Specialist Travel Agent Award’ at the British Annual Canada Travel Awards. ‘Destinations Canada’, with whom Irene travelled to Newfoundland and Nova Scotia last year, review independent agent booking figures and she was invited up to London to attend the event last week.

"I enjoyed the evening immensely and I was amazed to find I was amongst the top 5 sales agents in...

Chiefs international facing citing charge

Exeter Chiefs prop Tomas Francis has been cited by the independent Citing Commissioner for allegedly making contact with the eyes or eye area of an opponent (Dan Cole) in the second half of the RBS Six Nations match between England and Wales at Twickenham on Saturday.

Francis, who was used as a second half replacement for Samson Lee, will answer a charge under Law 10.4 (m) which applies to Acts Contrary to Good Sportsmanship.

The disciplinary hearing will be held by an independent Six Nations Disciplinary Committee later this week.

England’s James Haskell has also...

Exeter Hospiscare Men's Walk PICTURES

Almost 500 men walked in bright sunshine along Exeter’s canal raising thousands of pounds for local charity Hospiscare.

The walk started and finished at the Double Locks where the walkers were treated to a pint and a pasty before settling down to watch the Six Nations rugby. Sponsorship on the day alone raised £10,000 and Hospiscare hopes to reach its target of £30,000.

Charlotte Knipe, Hospiscare fundraiser, said: “It was a great day, the sun was shining, there was a fun atmosphere and it was so nice to see the men relax after the walk and enjoy their pints and pasties. It...

Five Exeter projects shortlisted in the 2016 Michelmores Property Awards

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Posted: Mon, 03/14/2016 - 6:50am

Five Exeter-based projects have been shortlisted in the 2016 Michelmores Property Awards, which showcase and celebrate the very best of the South West's property and construction industry across nine award categories.

Projects include St Leonards C of E Primary School, shortlisted in the 'Project of the Year with a Value Under £2million' category, Dean Clarke House, shortlisted for 'Heritage Project of the Year' and Exeter's COB II Passivhaus Residences, shortlisted for 'Sustainable Project of the Year'.

The Maths & Science Centre at Exeter College has been shortlisted...

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