Tesco are asking the public to nominate mums for their Mum of the Year Awards 2014. The supermarket is looking for mums who make a difference in their community and to other people by their work, their passion and by just being a great mum. The public are asked to send in details of mums who raise money for charity, help in the local area, support their families in difficult times and generally give back to others. Speaking in her role as Celebrity Ambassador, Denise van Outen (pictured) said, ”Mums are so important and are our country’s true unsung heroes. There are so many mums across...
September sees the latest ‘Great Devon Breakfast’ events taking place all over the county in aid of FORCE Cancer Charity. In 2012, this event raised nearly £10,000 for FORCE, and our April venues have already brought in a fantastic £5,000 this year.
We’d love to raise even more, so please go along to support your local ‘Great Devon Breakfast’ if you’re able to.
There are venues open to the public every weekend in September - in Woodbury Salterton, Bovey Tracey, Talaton, Withycombe, Sidford and Willand respectively.
For individual dates, venues and timings, please...
TV favourite Kirstie Allsopp has decorated a unique piece of three-dimensional charity art - a life-size gorilla.
The presenter, interior designer, crafts and property expert has come up with a design as part of Paignton Zoo’s Great Gorillas Project.
The project is celebrating the 90th birthday of the region’s largest and best-known zoo, Paignton Zoo Environmental Park, and is raising money for charity. Life-size model gorillas have been sponsored by businesses, painted in original designs by specially-commissioned artists and displayed in public, creating a unique free art...
Experience a unique combination of live dance acts and character movement jockeys topped with a fresh musical quenching from the South West’s finest bands and DJs. One ticket – twice the fun!
Tickets: £5 on the door.
For performance information and ticket sales please visit www.exeterphoenix.org.uk or contact Anna on 07531 888688, email icandidance@gmail.com
Over five nights in September, Devon-based art collective Blind Ditch will complete their contemporary portrait of Exeter with a series of multi-platform performances in an empty office space. Combining live video streaming from city centre homes, live performance both in the space and on the city’s streets, and interaction with an online audience, This City’s Centre 3: Here, Now invites us to discover more about how daily life in a British provincial city shapes us, our behaviour and our dreams for change. Showing as part of Unexpected, Exeter's new arts festival.
The FORCE and Francis Clark 10k, 5k and Family runs will be held at Powderham Castle on Sunday 8th September 2013 from 11 am. The 10k route will start on the field in front of the Castle, go up the driveway, along the footpath and out onto the road - taking in the wonderful estuary view. There is then a climb to the forests behind the Castle, before a cross-country track leading back to the terraces. As usual there will be a warm up beforehand and cakes and hot drinks available afterwards. The 10k run will go first, followed by the (slightly under) 5k run, which follows the first half of...
Staff at leading Devon law firm Kitsons have taken on a trio of charity challenges in aid of Children’s Hospice South West with an ultra marathon and a firm-wide kilometre challenge covering more than 1,200km in 32 hours ahead of the mighty Three Peaks Challenge next month.
Kitsons’ Partner and Head of Property, Patrick Gaskins and Andrew Morris of Headland Finance kicked off the first challenge by completing the epic ‘Race to the Stones’ 100km trail running race in a 24 hour timeframe along the oldest path in Britain. The duo followed the footsteps of Romans, Vikings, farmers and...
New research suggests that children are far less likely to be diagnosed with Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in the UK than they are in the USA.
However, the same study, led by the University of Exeter Medical School, suggests that autism diagnosis is still rising.
The study is published online in the Journal of Autism Developmental Disorders, published by Springer, and was supported by the NIHR Collaboration for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care in the South West Peninsula (NIHR PenCLAHRC).
A prestigious education prize has been awarded to an academic from the University of Exeter for a research paper on literacy practices for children with severe learning difficulties. The United Kingdom Literacy Association (UKLA), an organisation whose sole object is the advancement of education in literacy, selected Dr Hazel Lawson and her co-authors as winners of the UKLA/Wiley-Blackwell Research in Literacy Education Award 2013. The UKLA Journal of Research in Reading and Literacy editors noted that the paper presented a well-argued and robust challenge to established practices in...
A 33 year old woman, Teresa Rylands, has been charged with the murder of a Neil Mitchell, a 48 year old man. This is in connection with an incident at an address in Newton Abbot on the 13th August 2013. She has been remanded in police custody and will appear at Torbay Magistrates Court in the morning, on the 29th August 2013.
