NFU Mutual, the UK’s leading rural insurer, is urging crime-fighters to enter the Country Crime Fighters Awards 2014 to help crack down on crime in rural areas of the UK.
With only a few weeks left to enter, people are reminded to visit www.nfumutual.co.uk/crimefighters and tell the insurer in 300 words or less why they or their community group deserve to win an award and how they have helped to reduce crime in their local area.
Entries close on Monday 11 August.
NFU Mutual is expected to release its latest rural crime statistics this summer. Last year, the insurer...
Young adults report being offered a chlamydia test has a positive impact on their subsequent healthcare-seeking and sexual behaviour, according to a new Public Health England (PHE) report out this week.
After testing for chlamydia, 62% of respondents to an anonymous web survey reported they were more likely to use condoms with a new partner and 66% reported they were more likely to test for chlamydia again.
Nine out of 10 respondents to the PHE web survey received sexual health advice alongside their last chlamydia test. Young adults with higher numbers of sexual partners...
Renowned choral ensemble The Rodolfus Choir are travelling to Devon this week to give a special concert to support Exeter Cathedral.
The group, directed by Ralph Allwood MBE, are all young singers who have completed the Eton Choral Course (founded by Allwood 1980).
With a sound hailed as 'unspeakably beautiful' by Gramophone magazine, the choir has established itself firmly over a period of thirty years as one of the leading young choirs in the United Kingdom.
The concert takes place at Exeter Cathedral on Thursday 17 July at 7.30pm and will include Herbert Howell’s...
This year sees a new direction and an exciting programme for Devon Opera with performances at Dartington Hall, Sidholme in Sidmouth, Aeolian Court, Chudleigh, Bovey Castle and The Arundell Arms, Lifton.
Devon Opera's long relationship with Ugbrooke Park will be celebrated with two nights featuring critically acclaimed soprano Laure Meloy, who has sung with the Metropolitan in New York, at Covent Garden and with English Opera.
Devon Opera (formerly known as New Devon Opera) has developed its repertoire and rather than doing one annual complete opera it is offering more...
A major search has taken place in Torquay after the Coastguard were told that two people had fallen from cliffs.
Brixham Coastguard received a call just after 2pm on Saturday 12 July 2014 from South West Ambulance Service who had been made aware that people were in trouble on cliffs at Meadfoot beach.
With little information to go on, Brixham Coastguard sent the Torbay, Berry Head and Teignmouth Coastguard Rescue Teams to the scene, along with both Torbay RNLI lifeboats, Torbay Council patrol boat, police helicopter, Devon Air Ambulance, as well as police and ambulance...
Mathematical algorithms used to control everyday household items such as washing machines could hold the key to winning the fight for conservation, a new study has claimed.
As part of an EPSRC research project, a team of UK scientists and mathematicians, including those from the University of Exeter, have shown how techniques commonly used in control engineering, could be replicated in the natural world to help restock declining populations.
The innovative new study suggests ‘integral control’ - in essence a built-in feedback control mechanism to maintain a constant – could...
Members of St John's Chambers' Wills, Trusts and Probate team will be speaking at Bristol Law Society's Private Client Conference at Clarke Willmott, alongside HHJ McCahill QC.
The conference will be chaired by Anthony Fairweather of Clarke Willmott, and will present a wide range of speakers covering topical issues from legal and tax updates, through current planning ideas, and how to work with families in resolving their issues.
Topics include:
The Bristol Chancery Court HHJ McCahill QC
Wills and capacity update Alex Troup, Barrister, St John’s
Ballet fans and new audiences are in for a treat when one of Tchaikovsky's world famous classical ballets The Nutcracker comes to Exeter.
The enchanting tale of The Nutcracker is one of the best-loved ballets and centres around Clara and her nutcracker doll, which magically transforms into a princely soldier.
Their adventures see the Prince and Clara combat the Mouse King and join the Sugar Plum Fairy for a wonderful trip to a Kingdom made entirely of sweets.
The Nutcracker is being brought to Exeter by the fantastic Vienna Festival Ballet company, which boasts...
East Devon District Council is among dozens of local authorities around the country gathering data that will bring the biggest change to voter registration in a generation.
The next step towards what the Government are calling “a voting system fit for the 21st century” starts this month as Electoral Registration Officers (EROs) begin to contact voters across the UK about changes to the electoral registration system.
Individual Electoral Registration (IER) will give people more control and ownership over the process and increase the accuracy of the register – with the new...
