The decision announced by the Northern, Eastern and Western Devon Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) to only provide one hearing aid for people who have hearing loss in both ears has caused concern at the National Deaf Children’s Society.
As the leading charity dedicated to creating a world without barriers for deaf children and young people, the National Deaf Children’s Society is raising concerns today around the lack of consultation and evidence base being used before the CCG made their decision.
Speaking on behalf of the National Deaf Children’s Society, Sarah Collinson...
People in the South West have a dramatically higher level of trust in businesses in their area than they do in UK business as a whole.
The CBI’s Great Business Debate (its campaign to increase public trust in business) is today (Monday) publishing a YouGov survey of over four thousand people, including 350 in the South West. It shows that, when people’s feelings about businesses are determined by their direct experience, they are overwhelmingly positive but that this often fails to translate into support for business generally.
A teenager who was involved in a collision with a car in Paignton has died.
The 16-year-old male pedestrian, a foreign student, suffered serious head injuries and was taken by air ambulance to Derriford Hospital.
He died in hospital in the early hours of Sunday 7 December. His family have been informed.
Police are appealing for witnesses to the collision that happened at 12.15pm on Saturday 6 December on Great Western Road, on the one-way system outside Paignton train station.
The driver of the silver Vauxhall Vectra, a 42-year-old local man, was uninjured...
The South West private sector economy registered a pick-up in growth in November from October’s recent low, according to PMI survey data.
The rates of expansion in total activity and new business both accelerated for the first time since June, but remained weaker than the respective UK averages. Job creation continued at a solid pace and outstanding business increased further, while inflationary pressures remained historically muted.
The seasonally adjusted Lloyds Bank Commercial Banking South West Business Activity Index signalled growth of private sector output in...
Join us in Rockbeare Church on Wednesday 17th December at 7pm for Rockbeare's Christmas Carol Service. With music from the Salvation Army Band and Rockbeare Primary School's award winning choir. Rockbeare School Choir have made it through to the 8 finalists in the Radio Devon Star for Christmas competition. The winner of the competition has the opportunity to perform at a Carol Concert at Exeter Cathedral on 18th December which will be broadcast on Radio Devon on Christmas morning.
RUN, the new devised piece by Engineer Theatre Collective, will open at New Diorama Theatre this November (25th -29th). RUN tells the exhilarating tale of four investment bank interns in desperate pursuit of a career in the city. Inspired by the true story of Moritz Erhardt, a 21 year-old intern who died from an epileptic seizure at his London flat after reportedly working 72 hours straight, RUN exposes the glamour and the grind of the square mile.
Run has been developed in conversation with the freshest financial minds; the people who will be running our banks, trading our stocks...
Create and write solidarity cards for people suffering human rights abuses.
Amnesty International’s Write for Rights campaign sees thousands of letters and cards posted to support families affected and calls for justice for prisoners of conscience.
On 10th December, International Human Rights Day, artist Catherine Cartwright is running two creative card-making and writing workshops. Drop in and make one or many cards, write your messages of support and leave your donation to cover postage and materials.
Suggested donation £2 per card. Any surplus donations will be...
Create and write solidarity cards for people suffering human rights abuses.
Amnesty International’s Write for Rights campaign sees thousands of letters and cards posted to support families affected and calls for justice for prisoners of conscience.
On 10th December, International Human Rights Day, artist Catherine Cartwright is running two creative card-making and writing workshops. Drop in and make one or many cards, write your messages of support and leave your donation to cover postage and materials.
Suggested donation £2 per card. Any surplus donations will be...
David Cameron, Michael Caines and Rick Stein are just some of the big names who have provided recipes for ‘Intensive Food’, a charity cookbook in aid of the Intensive Care Unit Trust Fund at the Royal Devon and Exeter hospital.
The recipe book, which contains a collection of over 300 recipes from ICU staff, friends and special celebrity guests, was launched on 4th the December at an event in the ICU. The event was attended by ICU staff, the Lord Mayor of Exeter, members of the RD&E Board of Directors, staff from across the Trust who have donated recipes and previous ICU patient...
