Our society today is marked by what we might call ‘excessive liberalisation’. The social and moral limits and controls to human behaviour that have marked previous generations have been eroded or eradicated. This is true in the case of personal ethics where the emphasis on what is apparently good is defined by the short-term effects on an individual person or group. Choices of diet or drink are left to personal choice in which it is assumed that we can all make informed and educated decisions, often based on nothing more than immediate satisfaction or happiness. Any later consequences or...
A photography student is offering to photograph people's birthday celebrations free of charge and give them a CD containing all the images, in exchange for their help with her photography project.
Karen Sanders, who studies Photography at Bristol UWE, is creating a piece of work which represents the mixed emotions of unwrapping gifts.
She is asking for people to allow her to film them opening just one present, at a venue of their choice, as part of this project.
In return Karen is offering to film any volunteers birthday celebrations for however long they require...
The Exeter Chamber of Commerce is launching a separate organisation for young members at a special event on February 13.
The Junior Chamber seeks to bring together like minded young business people between the ages of 20-35 in the Exeter area.
Although it will be part of the Exeter Chamber it will act as a voice for young business people, offering them the means to promote, support or oppose legislative or other measures affecting trade, commerce and industry in the area.
The Junior Chamber will encourage young business people to network and develop networking...
The hunt has started to find 260 outgoing fundraisers to help break a Guinness World Record in an event set to be the largest of its kind. Skydive UK near Honiton will attempt to take 260 people for a 15,000ft tandem skydive in just one day. The record, which is currently held in Germany, stands at 251 skydives to take place over a 24th hour period and was set in 2013.
The event is being organised to raise money for the 50 participating charities and to celebrate 50 years of skydiving at Dunkeswell Airfield. The event coordinator, Louise Banks from Skydive UK explains: “Although...
Drivers in Devon who are keen to reduce their mileage this year have another chance to win a free tank of fuel.
Commuters who register with the www.carsharedevon.com website by 31 March will be entered into a prize draw to win a tank of fuel up to the value of £100.
Carsharedevon.com is a free service which allows people in Devon and across the south west to find others to share their journey, either taking turns with the driving, or giving someone a lift in exchange for a contribution to the fuel costs. It is commissioned by Devon County Council, in partnership with...
Local RSPCA animal shelter Little Valley, which is based just outside Exeter by Pocombe Bridge on the road to Longdown, is desperately seeking new homes for an influx of fluffy bunnies and cute guinea pigs in their care. 2013 was a very bad year for rabbits and guinea pigs, with many more being abandoned or rescued from neglectful homes where they had been mistreated or left to breed unhindered and do what what bunnies and guinea piggies do! One influx of guinea pigs at least quadrupled in size with the arrival of lots of baby piggies!
Devon and Cornwall Police are appealing for witnesses following the death of an eldery man on Saturday 11th December in South Molton.
The man, who was aged 86, died after his mobility scooter was in collision with a car on a pedestrian crossing in South Molton.
Police and ambulance were called to New Road around 11.20am on Saturday 11th January after the collision between the scooter and a Ford Focus. The 86-year-old man from South Molton sustained a serious head injury and was taken to North Devon District Hospital where he died yesterday (13 January).
Patients have expressed an appetite for potential cancer symptoms to be checked out much sooner than current NHS thresholds guidelines suggest, new research has revealed. A study led by the University of Bristol, with colleagues at the University of Exeter Medical School and the University of Cambridge, found that 88 per cent of participants opted for further investigation, even if their symptoms carried just a one per cent risk of indicating cancer. Although no fixed threshold is defined for the UK, in practice, the National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE) guidelines suggest that...
The Circus Of Horrors presents what is undoubtedly its greatest show to date! London After Midnight.
The show that stormed into the finals of Britain's Got Talent is back with an awe-inspiring rock 'n' rollercoaster of a show that flies like a bat out of hell to celebrate an astounding 18 years of shock 'n' roll.
