Work is set to start this autumn to provide 18 much-needed affordable homes in Fore Street, Exmouth.
The owners of the Fore Street site, Eagle One Homes, and Mi-Space, part of Midas Group, are working in partnership with leading housing organisation, DCH (formerly Devon & Cornwall Housing) and are transferring it after initial site preparation works are completed.
“We are really pleased to have agreed terms with DCH to provide this much needed affordable housing for Exmouth,” says Chris Fayers, Director at Eagle One Homes. “Work will be starting on site during the...
Traders, businesses and community organisations who want to make the most of social media are invited to come along to the first Teignmouth and Dawlish Social Media Cafe on Thursday 10 October being held at Fresh Ground Cafe, Bank Street, Teignmouth.
The Social Media Cafe is the brainchild of Mandy Pearse, Director of local firm Seashell Communications and Emma Kay, Teignmouth and Dawlish Town Centre Development Manager. It provides a free drop-in event where people can pick up tips and hints on using social media, ask questions, meet other like-minded people over a cup of coffee...
Everys Solicitors has supported the Budleigh Salterton Literary Festival for the fifth year in a row.
The firm, which has a branch office in Station Road, held a drinks reception at St Peter’s Hall to mark the event. Invited guests included clients, the festival’s committee and authors.
The entire party then enjoyed a reading from Hilary Mantel, the festival president and double Man Booker prize winner, at St Peter’s Church.
Everys’ conveyancing executive Dawn Ford and private client solicitor John Clarke attended from the Budleigh office, as well as investment...
Hip-hop culture is being used as a vehicle for raising awareness about mental health at an event on Thursday 17 October, 7.30pm at Mama Stone’s in Exeter.
Although the lyrics of hip hop music are often associated with swearing, rapping about money and the exploitation of women, there are also rappers whose unfiltered narration goes beyond this by describing the harsh realities of their world and the coping mechanisms employed by some young people. The music can be rich with references, for example, to addiction, psychosis, bipolar disorder and the effects of urbanicity, poor...
The Cut Purse Rascals have had a roller-coaster year of success playing some of the best venues Exeter has to offer, including the Phoenix and Bikeshed Theatre as well as Festival slots at the Southwest Food and Drink Festival and at Exeter’s Unexpected Festival.
As a group they have begun turning heads locally by coming second in the Oddfellows Open Mic competition, closing Exeter’s Acoustica Festival on the Quay and more recently being nominated for a Southwest Music Award for Americana and Country.
With their first EP in production and due for release in early 2014 it’s...
New research led by University of Exeter Medical School has discovered some people with Type 1 diabetes do produce insulin. In the study, 74 people with Type 1 Diabetes were tested to see how much natural insulin they produced and if they were functioning in response to meals 73% of the sample was found to still have active insulin-making cells in tests at the Exeter Clinical Research Facility. It was previously thought that all these cells were destroyed by the immune system within a few years of having the disease. Alex Nesbitt, 56, one of the volunteers in the study was diagnosed with...
Lloyd Barnes Accountancy Recruitment staged a Charity Quiz Night last week at Exeter Golf & Country Club, raising a substantial amount for Devon Community Foundation.
The quiz night, attended by over 100 professionals from businesses across Devon including Flybe, Thrifty, EDF, Foot Anstey, Stephens & Scown, Cobell and Maximus, tested everyone’s minds to the max. With questions such as ‘How many UK number 1 hits did Elvis Presley have?’ and ‘What was the name of the first space shuttle?’, how do you think you would have fared?
An inspector from Devon and Cornwall Police is heading to America for a research trip after securing funding from the Winston Churchill Memorial Trust.
Inspector Mark Bolt will be travelling to Chicago and Baltimore in October and November 2013 for a period of 6 weeks, where he will study well-developed criminal justice systems that include provision for those with mental illness.
Mark will spend time with police departments, prosecution agencies, courts, mental health workers, prison and services users.
He will also see how American Police operate their street...
The Bike Shed Theatre offers the people of Exeter a whole host of brilliant plays and productions, and this Christmas looks set to continue that legacy.
From December audiences will be able to come and watch a fantastic new Christmas play, Eliza and The Wild Swans. Eliza and The Wild Swans is a tale of family, love and redemption in a bold adaptation of Hans Christian Andersen’s classic tale Wild Swans . It is being created in collaboration with the acclaimed Wardrobe Ensemble, which uses physical theatre, live music and inventive stagecraft to make theatre which explores,...
