I once made friends with a lady on our street based on a conversation about what we had hanging in our windows so when I heard about a successful Advent window project that takes place in Derby each December I jumped at the chance to make it happen in our street. Portland street in Newtown, Exeter lends itself to a project like this as it is a long Victorian terrace with over a hundred houses.
My husband Steve and I run a design and marketing agency, Sfimedia Ltd, from our home in Portland Street and creativity and community spirit have always been important factors in our lives...
Katie Hopkins has courted even more controversy this week after commenting on the name of a sick child who was featured on the X Factor.
The programme featured an appeal for Kaychanel, a 10-year-old child from Norwich who suffers from a condition called Vacterl Sequence.
Severely ill Kaychanel has to take dialysis each week and has had an operation to help her to breathe.
Hopkins, who was live-tweeting throughout the programme, wrote: “Kaychanel has enough on her plate without me adding to it. Could have been worse. KayEsteeLauder. #xfactor”
Albow have been awarded a £125,000 grant from the Digital R&D Fund for the Arts to research and develop This Is On, an app that seeks to revolutionise how we discover, share, and exchange value around live events.
In collaboration with three technology partners and two academic institutions Albow will develop the new mobile and desktop app over one year.
Production on This Is On began in August this year, and the team are now inviting a limited number of users to join for private beta testing – they will have an exclusive first look at the app, and be able to contribute...
Devon and Cornwall Police have tasered a teenage boy with special learning needs at Chelfham Senior School in Bere Alston, near Tavistock.
Police were called to the school grounds around 9pm on December 1 after an alleged assault on a teacher involving three teenage boys.
Two 14-year-old boys and a 15-year-old boy were involved in the incident.Devon and Cornwall police have confirmed that a taser was used in their arrest
The boys will appear in Plymouth Magistrates court on December 20 to face a joint charge of affray.
A Marble Deity of Lord Shiva has finally arrived at the RD&E after a journey that took more than two years, many hours of craftsmanship and a four thousand mile trip from Jaipur.
The Deity’s presence was requested by members of the local Hindu community, who felt it would be helpful for staff and patients at the hospital. Lead Chaplain, Dr Simon Harrison, said: “At the time, we did not expect things to take quite so long, but were finally able to host a service of welcome on 14 October 14 (Murti Sthapna Puja) led by Panditjee Anirudh Bhatt, a priest from Bristol.”
The Rheumatology team at the Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Foundation Trust has had a run of award successes, both winning and being shortlisted for prestigious honours.
At the British Society for Rheumatology awards, the Early Synovitis Clinic won the Best Practice Award. The Biologics Clinic was also a finalist in the British Society for Rheumatology awards.
The British Society for Rheumatology’s Best Practice Awards highlight ground-breaking and innovative practice in NHS rheumatology services. Finalists were shortlisted following nominations by regional chairs, service...
If you normally find yourself making and breaking a number of New Year’s resolutions in the first couple of weeks of January,here’s one which will be both easy and highly enjoyable to keep. Book yourself on to a new 'Essentials' course at Manna from Devon Cooking School and fine tune your existing cooking skills whilst learning new and improved techniques.
Whether you have an existing passion for cooking or just want to try something new in 2014, the Essentials courses could be for you.
The half day courses( 10am-1.30pm) are run by Holly and David Jones, who both have...
Time is of the essence, as the deadline for the WESC Foundation's ‘Win a Mercedes-Benz A-Class’ is almost upon us. For just £2 a ticket, you could be in with the chance of driving off with this beautiful car worth in the region of £20,000, including 12 months’ Road Fund Licence, number plates, first registration fee and fuel.
The competition, which has formed part of WESC's 175th Birthday Celebrations, is due to close on 24 December 2013. The prize – a brand new Mercedes-Benz A-Class – has been generously donated by Mercedes-Benz of Exeter in order to raise vital funds for the...
Economic overview: Iain Armstrong, director of equity research, comments: “The Chancellor has under promised and over delivered – a great trick if one can pull it off. He has had help from higher tax receipts and lower unemployment and better export performance – but he did start from an even lower base than understood in 2010. The recession was actually as deep as 7.2% in 2008/09 – the deepest in the developed world. And now he has an £11 billion surplus but has certainly not given it away – this was a disciplined budget. So he could make his budget surplus 2 years ahead of 2020 as...
