Mumazing Group - Feel the Guilt and Do it Anyway

Event Date: 
13/10/2014 - 10:00am to 1:00pm
Venue: 
Buckerell Lodge Hotel

Join our Mumazing Community with Likeminded Ambitious Mum’s where you can grow together, expand and be you.

Whether you are a Mum in Business, a Mum with a Career or a Mum looking for somewhere to be inspired and hang out with fellow Mum’s then this is the community for you.

I know all too well the guilt you can face after becoming a Mum, I have never known guilt like it! Not just to my daughter (but mostly), but my partner, family and even friends. Today I feel fortunate to be able to not feel guilty about living the life I really want and if I feel a bit of natural guilt...

Interview experience for Exeter School sixth formers

Exeter School Sixth Formers got a taste of the real world last Saturday when they experienced the first in a series of practice interviews.

The Upper Sixth Formers were interviewed by local and national professionals and Exeter School alumni at Gilbert Stephens LLP Solicitors in Exeter.

Every year, during late September and early October, Exeter School’s Upper Sixth pupils are given the chance to experience a general interview away from school.

Every effort is made to match the pupil to an interviewer with similar interests, for example potential medical students...

Betfair boosts paralysed jockey’s £20k target

Authored by Lucy
Posted: Tue, 10/07/2014 - 2:15pm

A substantial donation from Betfair means paralysed jockey Sarah Gaisford, who broke her back in a race riding fall at Exeter in 2007, looks set to smash the £20,000 target she set herself to raise for the Injured Jockeys’ Fund at the racecourse this Thursday.

Sarah will ride a circuit of the racecourse where she had her tragic accident, and racegoers are being given free entry if they donate £15 to the IJF and take part in a two mile sponsored walk around the service track while Sarah rides on the course.

Betfair sponsored the race when she had her life-changing fall eight...

Otton's Haberdashery 1st Birthday!

Event Date: 
11/10/2014 - 10:00am to 5:30pm
Venue: 
Otton's Haberdashery, 111-113 Fore Street, Exeter, EX4 3JF

Can you believe it?! Otton's Haberdashery turns ONE on Saturday 11th October!

Pop in and see us in the shop for fun, have-a-go workshops running all day. Try your hand at scrappy fabric bunting, a washi tape flag garland, and button heart decorations! And of course, plenty of cake for all...

We're open 10am to 5.30pm as usual - see you there!

Hospiscare helps hundreds of Exeter families

Authored by Hospiscare
Posted: Tue, 10/07/2014 - 1:00pm

Hospiscare nurses and doctors looked after 624 people and their families, living with a terminal illness in the Exeter area, during the past year.

The local charity which offers free expert help and support to local people and their families is joining 100 other hospices across the UK this week raising awareness of their work; it is Hospiscare Week during 6 October to 12 October.

Teams of Hospiscare nurses and doctors, specialising in end of life care, visit people in their own homes, in hospitals, in care homes and give 24-hour support at the Hospiscare Exeter hospice, as...

Politicians take zero-electricity challenge

Authored by Mary Youlden
Posted: Tue, 10/07/2014 - 11:00am

Exeter politicians from all parties are braving a challenge to live for a whole day without electricity to help get people thinking about their energy use.

The Pull the Plug challenge is being organised by Exeter Community Energy (ECOE) and will see local councillors Rosie Denham and Adrian Fullam and parliamentary candidates Diana Moore and Dom Morris go a full day with no phone, car, TV, laptop – or indeed anything else with a current.

The challenge lasts for the whole of Sunday 12 October and ECOE want as many people as possible to take part.

Everyone doing so is...

Fugitive convicted of violent assault in an Exeter bar arrested in Spain

Authored by Mary Youlden
Posted: Tue, 10/07/2014 - 10:31am

An Exeter fugitive has been arrested in Spain and returned to prison following a lengthy investigation to locate him. Scott Kelly, 33, was convicted of a violent assault in March 2005 after stabbing a man in the back during a dispute in a bar in Exeter. He was sentenced to seven years in prison with an extended five year licence. Kelly was released in October 2013 but he failed to abide by the conditions of his licence and fled to Spain. The disappearance prompted a multi-agency investigation to establish his whereabouts, which saw Devon and Cornwall Police work in collaboration with...

Clinic Saves Face with new accreditation

Authored by Mary Youlden
Posted: Tue, 10/07/2014 - 10:22am

An Exeter clinic is one of the first in the UK to be officially accredited as safe and qualified to carry out non-surgical cosmetic treatments like dermal fillers. Legally, anyone in the UK can carry out these kinds of treatments and the industry has come under huge pressure to provide protection for patients from cowboy practitioners. Save Face is the first organisation in the UK to provide a register of accredited practitioners – all of whom have been visited and assessed for professionalism, qualifications and safety to give patients peace of mind when booking treatments. Radiance...

Holiday park celebrates ‘best summer ever’

Authored by Mary Youlden
Posted: Tue, 10/07/2014 - 10:07am

One of Devon’s largest independent holiday parks is celebrating its busiest summer ever.

Ladram Bay Holiday Park, situated on the Jurassic coast between Sidmouth and Budleigh Salterton, saw nearly 6,000 holidaymakers stay in July and August.

The business, which has been in the same family for four generations since Devon farmer Bill Carter took on part of a small tenanted farm in 1942, had 7,640 people stay over the two summer months, with 1,800 bookings taken for a total of 15,300 ‘nights’. Revenue was up eight per cent on the same period last year.

Director Zoe...

Worrying increase in debt problems among Exeter residents

Authored by News Desk
Posted: Tue, 10/07/2014 - 8:54am

There has been a dramatic upsurge in debt worries among people in the Exeter area, according to new figures released by StepChange Debt Charity. In the first six months of this year, 648 residents in the Exeter postcode area sought debt advice from the charity’s helpline compared to 580 in the same period last year, an increase of 12 per cent.

The figures point to a further strain on household budgets, with those contacting the charity from the Exeter area an average of £11 per month worse off than the same time last year. The average person in Exeter seeking the charity’s help was...

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