A Passivhaus project in which Exeter-based Aspect Windows installed the windows and doors has won a national award.
Totnes Passivhaus B&B, in Dartington, near Totnes, was announced the winner in the private housing category of the UK Passivhaus Awards 2013 at a ceremony in London on 4 July. The national awards celebrate the design and performance of Passivhaus in the UK.
Aspect Windows worked with the designer and builder and supplied and installed the property’s triple-glazed Internorm windows and doors to achieve the Passivhaus standard. The Totnes Passivhaus, the...
A revolutionary new nasal spray at the dentist could signal the end of the "dreaded" needle.
Scientists at the University at Buffalo have pioneered the spray to replace the need for needles, a move that could encourage 15 million people in the UK with dental anxiety to visit the dentist.
The nasal spray, called Kovacaine Mist, appeared to be just as, if not more effective than a standard anaesthetic, with more than four in five patients (83 per cent) requiring no further anaesthetic. Founder Dr Mark Kollar, DDS, noted the spray provided anaesthesia of the teeth 'sufficient...
An official turf cutting was held at the Grand Western Canal on Monday (8 July) to mark the start of restoration work.
The Canal suffered a serious breach of its northern bank near the Swing Bridge at Halberton on 21 November last year, after water spilled over the top of the embankment during torrential downpours and flooding.
It is estimated that more than 16 million litres of water (the equivalent of more than 100,000 bathtubs or 6.5 Olympic swimming pools) flowed through the 23-metre wide breach onto neighbouring farmland. Emergency services spent days pumping water...
There are 184 people in Devon waiting for a transplant and 31 Devon residents have died due to the shortage of organs in the last four Years*. NHS Blood and Transplant is highlighting the figures to encourage people to pass on their donation wishes to their loved ones during National Transplant Week 2013 (8-14 July). This year’s theme is Pass It On, stressing the importance of having a conversation about organ donation as well as joining the NHS Organ Donor Register. To encourage people, some of the UK’s best known communicators are showing the public how important and easy it is to do....
Lucy the Founder of Mumazing Success and the brains behind the Recharge and Achieve More Day, an event aimed at Mum’s and Women who would like to achieve an ideal life balance, has reduced the tickets as a gift to Women who couldn’t afford it.
Lucy says “I had so much interest in this day I’m putting on that on the day we launched, people crashed the server (which my web guys tell me is quite hard to do!). Anyway, when the site was back up some Women were saying that they were dying to come, but were struggling to make ends meet. I didn’t know what to do. So I went to all my...
With Britain basking in the sun, 77 years of national frustration, self-deprecation and scratching of heads finally melted away as Andy Murray beat Novak Djokovic to become the first British man to win Wimbledon since Fred Perry in 1936.
In a display of immense strength, belief and resilience, as well as enormous skill, Murray defeated the gifted Serbian world number one in straight sets, 6-4 7-5 6-4. In their wildest dreams, few fans would have anticipated Murray not dropping a set, especially given the pressure, wilting heat and the sheer fight of his opponent.
Why don't multi-national corporations like MONSANTO, keep their hands off our food, they are interfering with nature with some devastating results for humanity.
We must know what is in our foods, our children are suffering as are we and it is not going to get better until this madness is stopped.
Here is the latest depressing news: http://www.naturalnews.com/041014_Monsanto_seed_patents_GMOs.html#ixzz2YGaVdDwA
Read it and weep, this affects every single one of us.
Owen Paterson (our so called Environment Secretary) is becoming the latest in a line of pests...
Do you think people are basically good or bad? Is humanity intrinsically evil or fundamentally benign? Or, if we are a mixture of both, what is the balance? And, if you are a person of faith, you may ask what does your church or tradition say about this ancient and ongoing enigma? One view is what history calls ‘dualism’. There are forces of good in life and they oppose forces of evil, and the world is the arena in which this struggle takes place. But if this is so, why do good people do bad things and bad people do good things? Big questions and not immediately relevant or applicable to...
After performing at the Eden Project with The Kaiser Chiefs and with more summer festivals such as Reading and Leeds still to perform at, The Exeter Daily managed to grab a few quick words with Al Kershaw, the lead singer of The Computers, before the band are due to perform their highly anticipated show at the Exeter Phoenix on 6 July.
Q: For those readers who are not familiar with The Computers, could you briefly sum up who and what the band are about?
A: Well in short, we are a 5-piece beat combo from Exeter, Devon...
A company in Honiton has won a national technology award from BT for innovation in technology.
Cosmic, ( www.cosmic.org.uk ) a social enterprise offering IT services across the South West, was announced as the winner of the BT Get IT Together Award in this year’s Technology4Good Awards, organised by AbiltyNet.
The award, sponsored by BT, recognises inspiring UK-based organisations which are supporting digital inclusion activities by enabling and encouraging people to get online.
Cosmic, of East Devon Business Centre, Heathpark Way, is an ethical IT company which...
