Results from the first ever community survey show that Cranbrook residents are happy overall with the emerging community and are looking forward to future facilities and developments.
Residents responded to questions across five sections entitled ‘Your Community’; ‘Services’; ‘Healthcare’; ‘About your Home’; and ‘About You’ in the first ever ‘Community Needs Questionnaire for Cranbrook.
The headline results reflect that 94% of respondents feel Cranbrook is a good place to live, 90% get on well with the people they meet and that residents like the community spirit and the...
The body recovered from the sea last Saturday (11 January) has been formally identified as the missing teenager Harry Martin today (16 January).
A formal inquest into the death of Mr Martin, who went missing from his home in Newton Ferrers during the height of the recent storms, is due to begin next Monday (20 January).
The 18-year-old’s body was found in Carswell Bay in the Noss Mayo area by friends who were aiding in the search effort using sea kayaks.
Police, the Dartmoor Rescue group, Coastguard, specialist search dogs and over 100 members of the public took...
The digital landscape changes daily. Keeping up to speed with these changes is imperative if you want your business to succeed online. Welcome to our flagship event, our once a year extravaganza! Don’t worry, we’ll still be running our Optix Fridays throughout the year and we also have a special series of sector specific events planned. This one however is for those of you who want to start the year with a bang. It’s about making sure you’ve not missed out on any of the changes in 2013 and are ahead of the game in 2014. At the very least you’ll come away with loads of ideas to take back...
A full house of all your favourite regular vinyl and CD dealers Rusty the Record from Swindon, along with a couple of returning dealers that can only attend once in a while.
Doors open 9.30am, £1 entry, early entry from 8am £3.
Devon County Council has invited the Prime Minister to personally see the state of the county’s roads after the recent storms.
Councillor Stuart Hughes, the County Council Cabinet Member for Highway Management and Flood Prevention, has written to David Cameron to ask him to discuss concerns over road maintenance with Ministers and Government officials.
The authority is currently facing an estimated £750 million backlog of repairs to bring the county’s road network up to standard.
Despite this backlog the Department of Transport has only made £136 million available...
Exeter radio communication experts Premier Communication Electronics (PCE) has come to the aid of coaching staff at Plymouth Albion.
Albion’s head coach James Shanahan was keen to use a secure radio solution on match days to prevent others, including opposition teams, listening in to his instructions and conversations with other members of the coaching team.
PCE’s chief executive Karen Langley, whose son Rob has a dual contract with Plymouth Albion and Exeter Chiefs, said: “We had dealt with situation before with other rugby and football. Analogue radios have their place...
Exeter City Council has proposed raising its charges for city council services by nearly 2% costing some residents over £260 a year.
The council has said the decision to raise their council tax charges by 1.99% is subject to the Government’s decision on how much councils can raise their tax by.
The average tax charge is set to rise to over £132 a year on properties in the band D property but can rise as high as £260 a year for those on the H council tax band.
Council Leader Pete Edwards said the rise was as a result of the government cutting Exeter's funding by 13.6...
Devon and Cornwall Police are urging motorists and garage owners to be vigilant following a spate of catalytic converter thefts. Catalytic converters are used to decrease air pollution by converting toxic exhaust emissions into non-toxic substances. The average converter contains one to two grams of platinum, palladium and rhodium, making them a target for thieves who can then attempt to sell these high value materials to scrap metal merchants. A steep rise in metal costs over recent years has led to significant increases in thefts of catalytic converters across the UK. In Devon and...
The NHS in Devon wants to involve members of the public in helping to make difficult decisions about treatments.
Voluntary public representatives, also known as lay members, are being recruited to Devon’s clinical policy committee to help make sure the best decisions are made when it comes to the funding of medicines and treatments.
Northern, Eastern and Western Devon Clinical Commissioning Group (NEW Devon CCG) and South Devon and Torbay Clinical Commissioning Group (SD&T CCG) work closely together to help reduce variations in treatments that the NHS will routinely...
Diabetes research led by the University of Exeter Medical School has underlined the importance of people with diabetes achieving their blood sugar goals, to reduce the risk of complications.
The team analysed people with a specific genetic change (Glucokinase Maturity Onset Diabetes of the Young, or MODY), which means they have elevated blood glucose levels from birth. These higher levels mimic guidelines issued to people with both type 1 and type 2 diabetes.
International guidelines have proposed that patients with diabetes should keep their HbA1c (a measure of long term...
