A £9.1 million programme to restore some of the roads damaged during the wettest winter on record has been announced by Devon County Council.
The County Council has developed a programme of almost 400 repair schemes, using the Pothole Repair Funding that Devon received from central Government, to improve the surface or drainage resilience of more than 80 miles (129 km) of roads in the county.
This is in addition to repair work which started in Devon in June using the £7 million Severe Weather Recovery funding, in response to the damage caused over the winter months to the...
As we come out of the summer holidays and back to business, how would it be if we could maintain that ‘holiday feeling’ where you feel great and your energy levels soar?
Because taking care of your body isn’t just good for the beach, it’s good for business too.
Having all the ideas in the world is no good if you don’t have the energy to implement them or the vitality to enjoy the success you have.
It’s often said that only time we really take care of our health is when we don’t have it anymore. Speak to anyone with a life-threatening or debilitating illness and they...
Zoo keepers at Living Coasts in Torquay are teaching a tiny seal pup how to swim.
She had to be hand reared because her mother Grace was unable to produce milk. Now, keeper Libor Mach has taken to the water to give her swimming lessons.
But how do you teach a seal pup to swim? Living Coasts’ Clare Rugg explained: “In the wild the mother would simply take them into the water and keep them afloat until they got the hang of it. So we have to do pretty much the same!
“She has a natural instinct but needs Libor, her surrogate mother, for confidence. She can’t get in or...
An online booking system has been introduced by the Sandy Park events team: www.sandypark.co.uk/book Designed to streamline the booking process for events held at the award-winning venue, the booking system allows clients to book onto events and pay instantly via credit or debit card. The system can be used to book onto the first networking event in the redeveloped Sandy Park, the b2b Business Breakfast on 19 September.
This event features guest speaker Jon Paul Hedge, who was recently appointed editor of the Exeter Express & Echo. Mr Hedge will be discussing ‘Disruption to...
As Green Party members join campaigners at railway stations today calling for public ownership of rail, the Party have slammed a report by Network Rail which concludes that all investment options for creating a resilient railways network in the South West are ‘poor value for money’. Greens say it is the private franchise system that offers poor value for money, both to rail passengers and tax payers, not investment in the region’s railways. The West of Exeter Route Resilience Study by Network Rail followed an eight week shutdown of the railways west of Exeter due to severe storm damage at...
City’s tough start to the season continues with a trip to the Pirelli Stadium to face Burton Albion tonight (Tuesday 19 August).
The Brewers were a Wembley win away from escaping League 2 altogether last season. After years of clinging onto survival around the bottom for the Midland side, the influence of Gary Rowett has established Burton as a power in the fourth tie. Ultimately Fleetwood were play-off final winners last year.
While City’s search for a first win of 2014/15 goes on, the Brewers have won all three of their games. An opening day win at Oxford was followed by...
A team led by researchers at the University of Exeter Medical School and King’s College London has uncovered some of the strongest evidence yet that epigenetic changes in the brain play a role in Alzheimer’s disease.
Epigenetic changes affect the expression or activity of genes without changing the underlying DNA sequence and are believed to be one mechanism by which the environment can interact with the genome. Importantly, epigenetic changes are potentially reversible and may therefore provide targets for the development of new therapies.
