East Devon District Council’s Home Safeguard service has comfortably retained a coveted industry chartermark – putting it among the top alarm providers in the UK.
The service for frail and vulnerable people first won the Telcare Services Association (TSA) accreditation three years ago and has since successfully passed two annual check-ups.
Last month (November), the TSA conducted a three-yearly audit, which is a tougher test than the annual checks and more akin to the original inspection in 2010, subjecting every aspect of Home Safeguard to in-depth scrutiny.
I have been interested in the world's religions since I was ten years old. It all started at primary school, when I read a book about religion in India. The colour, the beauty, the wisdom spoke to me in a way that the rigid fundamentalism in which I was raised did not. It was whilst reading theology at Exeter University that I became aware that many people shared my fascination, yet, ironically knew surprisingly little about it. 'Hinduism? Isn't that the religion where they wear swords and turbans?' people would say.
As we move into December we can really start getting into the Christmas spirit and if you have your eye focused on that perfect Christmas outfit then our top tips will help to get you in party-ready shape. Ideal Weight Coach Lisa Bennett’s top tip is use your Christmas shopping trips as an Ideal Weight Workout to help you lose pounds on the run up to Christmas and into the New Year.
Lisa Bennett says: ‘Think of your Christmas shopping trips as a great way to lose pounds. Many of us walk for miles to find that perfect gift and laden with more presents than Rudolf can carry, you are...
Enjoy the talents of Harry Brockway, Hilary Paynter, Pam Pebworth and Howard Phipps on Saturday 7th December at the Royal Albert Memorial Museum.
The four local wood engravers will be meeting visitors of the museum at 2pm.
Visitors to Exeter’s Royal Albert Memorial Museum (RAMM) will be able to enjoy a drink with the artists and get a 5% discount on all artists’ gallery sales when an exhibition opens on Saturday 7th December.
The exhibition - Awake Through Years: Four Southwest Wood Engravers, runs from 7 December to 23 March.
Tiny bits of plastic rubbish could spell big trouble for marine life, starting with the worms, say a team of researchers from the University of Exeter and Plymouth University who report their evidence in a pair of studies in the Cell Press journal Current Biology. The marine worms play a key ecological role as an important source of food for other animals. Work by Stephanie Wright from the University of Exeter found that if ocean sediments are heavily contaminated with microplastics, marine lugworms eat less and their energy levels suffer. A separate report, from Mark Anthony Browne on...
Visitors to Exeter’s Royal Albert Memorial Museum (RAMM) will be able to enjoy a drink with the artists and get a 5% discount on all artists’ gallery sales when an exhibition opens on Saturday 7th December.
Awake Through Years: Four Southwest Wood Engravers runs from 7 December to 23 March. Four local wood engravers, Harry Brockway, Hilary Paynter, Pam Pebworth and Howard Phipps, will be meeting visitors in the gallery from 2pm on Saturday.
The engravers combine accuracy of observation with a totally modern sensibility. Their display highlights many of the different...
University of Exeter staff are taking part in a second day of national strikes over pay conditions today (3 December). Members of the UCU, Unite and UNISON unions are holding a second day of strikes having already taken industrial action on October 31. Members of the EIS union, which represents Scottish university staff, are also join today’s strikes not having taken part of the previous strike. Unions are striking over a 1% returned pay offer from University employers which the unions argue actually represent a 13% pay cut due to the rising cost of living. The Univesities and Colleges...
Seize the Moment, a not for profit registered company, have teamed up with the Community Composting Network to deliver a course aimed specifically at local food growers to get them composting as well as growing.
The courses, which take place in a variety of locations across the UK, aim to get food growers to capture the nutrients and organic matter in local food and garden waste,and return that goodness to the soil where it's badly needed. It will also help them use their own compost to make growing media for sowing and planting up.
Neil Parish, MP for Tiverton and Honiton, has pledged his support for Halve It, a national coalition campaign that aims to halve late diagnosis and undiagnosed HIV in the UK by 2015.
At the Halve It World AIDS Day parliamentary drop-in session on the 27 November, Neil met with key members of the campaign’s steering group, including leading HIV clinicians, and CEOs of patient and policy organisations. He discussed with them Halve It’s aims and achievements to date, and the campaign’s compelling case for HIV to remain a public health priority in the UK. The event, which marked the...
It’s very nearly the season to be jolly - and traders are being encouraged to become festive and get ahead of the game by booking their slot in Newton Abbot’s second year of Christmas Street Fayres.
Born Hectic Events, the organisers of last year's successful event, has once again teamed up with Teignbridge District Council and Newton Abbot Town Development Manager Sally Henley to put on two evenings of shopping, music and entertainment. The Street Fayres are back by popular demand on Wednesday 11 December and Wednesday 18 December.
