Government plans to capture wild Devon beavers have been cast into doubt after Freedom of Information requests by Friends of the Earth revealed that Public Health England (PHE) does not believe the animals would increase risk to human health from disease.
The Government says that the beavers should be captured because of fears that the beavers living in the River Otter near Exeter would increase the risk to human health from the tapeworm, Echinococcus multilocularis. However, information obtained by Friends of the Earth casts doubt on Government justifications.
Exeter College is part of a collaborative group staging Connected Exeter - a digital design weekend - across the city on 18 and 19 October.
Working with the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, and the Royal Albert Memorial Museum (RAMM), Exeter, along with the Phoenix, the Met Office and the Fab Lab at Exeter Library, the college will stage a number of design-based challenges in its Centre for Creative Industries (CCI) building situated off Queen Street, across the weekend.
The event is open to the public and aimed at young people of secondary school age up to college age...
Greater caution appears to be being exercised across the South West housing market as price expectations hit the lowest level since April 2013, according to the latest RICS Residential Market Survey.
Although price momentum remains positive, and has been positive over the last three months – with 47 percent more respondents seeing a rise in prices, a more modest figure of 9% more chartered surveyors are predicting a rise in prices over the coming three months. In the South West, new buyer demand slipped for the third consecutive month.
Public consultation on proposals to reform the way health services are delivered in Devon will be the focus of review by Devon County Council’s Overview and Scrutiny Committee.
The proposals from NEW Devon Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) are part of their Transforming Community Services programme. A major consultation is now underway, and Devon County Council’s Health and Wellbeing Scrutiny Committee will oversee this process.
The purpose of the Transforming Community Services (TCS) Programme is to set the strategic direction, design and delivery for community services...
Millions of years ago the Earth was a spinning ball in space surrounded by enormous clouds of toxic gases - including carbon and methane.
This planet had no oxygen and supported no living creature. Then over millions of years microscopic organisms began to evolve into plants. The plants turned into larger plants and slowly began to absorb the poisonous gas. They gradually gained the capacity to absorb sunlight and photosynthesise, and emitted oxygen which in itself facilitated more complex beings and the process of life on earth moved on.
A striking new exhibition which opened yesterday (8 October), presents 12 of the Exeter based (either at the University or Met Office) IPCC authors through a series of striking large-scale black and white portraits.
Entitled ‘Face 2 Face with climate change’, the artwork is the brainchild of Exeter-based One Planet MBA graduate David Mansell-Moullin.
The scientists featured in the exhibition were all authors (Coordinating, Lead or Contributing) on the latest IPCC 5th Assessment Reports on climate change. The photographic portraits are overlaid with fine text from the IPCC...
Come along and join our finalists and judges for the prestigious South West Chef of the Year Awards Presentation Dinner to be prepared by three top chefs, all previous winners of the competition!
Hosted and sponsored by Exeter Golf and Country Club, this will be a true celebration of the best in food, drink and hospitality from around the South West where you will be among the first to find out who has won the various awards for South West Chef of the Year 2014.
Our three guest chefs are Mike Tweedie, sous chef at 2 Michelin starred Gidleigh Park, Nathan Cornwell, chef de...
Staff from an Exeter opticians are going canine-crazy for Guide Dogs Week with a visit from a furry friend and a range of activities in-store.
Specsavers in Exeter is hosting a main fundraising event on 10 October, with the chance for people to come and say hello to a guide dog and talk to a local guide dog owner about eye health.
The store are raising money for the charity throughout this week to raise as much as possible for the cause.
Store director at Specsavers in Exeter, Jonathan Baumber says: "We’re determined to raise as much money as possible for Guide Dogs...
Long serving former Exeter City Councillor, Yolonda Henson is being recommended for the Honorary position of Freeman of the City.
An extraordinary meeting of the Council will be held on Wednesday 15 October to consider the recommendation to bestow the freeman of the city honour on Yolonda in recognition of her unstinting duty of public service over a total of 32 years elected service on the City Council.
This includes a number of years as Leader of the Conservative Group, as well as Mayor of the City in 1992. Throughout that time, she has always put the interests of the...
Molly-Anne Keehner, 19, a supervisor from Exeter, is currently one of 30 contestants competing in the first Miss England semi final heat for 2015.
The public vote is now well underway and she needs the support of her local community before voting lines close in order to secure a place in the Miss England semi-final held in June 2015.
Molly-Anne is hoping to win by being voted one of the top 3 in the heat. If she does reach the top 3 her fate will then be in the hands of the panel of judges, which includes Miss England 2013, Kirsty Heslewood, who will decide who is the most...
