Being a Personal Trainer can be a fantastically rewarding job especially when someone like Dave Pethick walks into your gym in Exeter.
Weighing almost 20 stone, Dave was a man on a mission and had his mind set on losing weight and getting fit. With some health problems beginning to emerge, Dave realised the time had arrived to join a gym in Exeter, addressing his weight issues to ensure a healthy, and happy future ahead.
At only 20 years old, Dave desperately wanted to regain the confidence which had been shattered as his weight increased over a number of years beforehand....
Camoflauge and war paint were in on Saturday when staff from an Exeter opticians raised awareness and funds for the Blind Veterans UK.
On Saturday 28 June staff from Specsavers Exeter dressed up in camouflage to raise money for the charity. In addition, they have raised funds throughout June for the cause.
Jonathan Baumber, store director at Specsavers Exeter, said ahead of the event: "We are very pleased to be supporting the Blind Veterans, supporting our ex-Service men and also the importance of eye examinations. We look forward to dressing up in our army gear and raising...
Following the launch of RGB Building Supplies Community Fund, when £1,000 worth of building materials was given to a charity last month, the builders merchant is now calling for sports clubs in the Exeter area to get in contact and tell them what help they need.
Perhaps a local football team needs their changing rooms decorated, or a cricket club needs help with some fencing, or possibly the facilities used by a local martial arts club need updating, whatever the project, RGB would like to find out how £1,000 worth of materials could help.
A budding entrepreneur has opened his first hairdressing business in Ottery St Mary.
At just 19 years of age, Matt Booth is determined to make a success of Alley Barber, a traditional barber’s shop.
After training at the Total Barber Hair Academy in London and serving his apprenticeship in a number of Exeter salons including Gentry and Restyle Barber, Matt decided the time was right to set up on his own.
He said: “I’d just started looking for suitable premises, when I heard the video rental shop in Saddlers Lane was available. It seemed the ideal spot to catch...
The Foundation for People with Learning Disabilities are calling for a change to the language used about people with learning disabilities and the way they are represented in the media, in order to tackle the increase in bullying, harassment and hate crime.
Social media and the internet are places where high levels of bullying and hate crime are experienced by people with learning disabilities, as well as when they are at home, at work or out in their communities.
As well as campaigning for more positive representation in society and the media, the Foundation, working with...
Mark Twiggs believes a "refreshed" outlook has given the Exeter Chiefs a real spring in their step as they get stuck into the rigours of pre-season.
With Sandy Park currently closed to all and sundry due to the multi-million pound redevelopment works that are being carried out ahead of the 2014/15 season, the Chiefs squad have been forced to relocate to the University of Exeter for the majority of their build-up to the new campaign.
The enforced switch, however, has been hailed a huge success by Twiggs, who heads up the Aviva Premiership club's Strength & Conditioning...
Organizers of the latest Exeter PA Network seminar are expressing their delight at the resounding success of the event which attracted over 60 delegates to the Mercure Southgate Hotel in Exeter.
The evening was styled as a ‘celebratory event’ aimed at raising awareness amongst the regional personal assistant community of the various awards that are open to them and encouraging them to put themselves forward for recognition.
High profile speakers included Leanne Graham, Executive PA Magazine/HAYS PA of the Year winner 2013 and Lucy Brazier, the CEO of Executive Secretary...
Flybe, Europe’s largest independent regional airline, has joined forces with the world’s leading online accommodation booking site, Booking.com, that allows agents and independent customers seamless access to Booking.com’s extensive worldwide accommodation database. The site is up and running from today (1 July, 2014). The direct link to Booking.com accessed via the airline’s website www.flybe.com provides a ‘one clickbooking’ gateway to over 500,000 hotels, apartments, B&B’s, villas, hostels, resorts and more in 201 countries. It gives users the option to select such preferences as...
The Technology Strategy Board (the UK’s Innovation Agency) has published its blueprint for growth, which outlines investments of over £400 million in British Innovation.
Businesses from across the South West are being encouraged to look at the range of specialist business support available and bid for a share of the funding on offer.
144 organisations in the South West received help or funding from the Technology Strategy Board in the last financial year.
These companies were awarded over £21 million to support their collaborative research and development projects...
On Saturday 26 July, the team at Castle Drogo invite you to an evening of wit and humour as The Hatherleigh Players put on a 1920s version of Oscar Wilde’s classic 1895 comedy The Importance of Being Earnest.
The Castle was originally built between 1911 and 1930 and so it provides a great backdrop for a performance of this Oscar Wilde favourite – expect Charleston dancing, mistaken identities, arguments over muffins and cucumber sandwiches and of course, A HANDBAG!
All proceeds from the performance will be split between The Hatherleigh Players and the ‘Save castle Drogo’...
