No one ever wants to think about their home being broken into, or any other type of disaster striking, but the unfortunate reality is that it happens all too often. From fires to floods, there is a myriad of ways that your home could be damaged or destroyed – and that’s not even taking into account the intentional acts of vandalism and theft.

That’s why it’s so important to do everything you can to protect your home, and that starts with making sure it is as safe and sound as possible. Here are four tips and tricks that will help you d that:

Community arts enterprise the Music in Devon Initiative CIC (MIDI) are extremely proud to present the Exeter Street Festival “After Party” at the Phoenix Arts Centre on Saturday August 27th.

The After Party is the grand finale of the hugely popular Exeter Street Arts Festival, which features a whole day of live music and arts activities in multiple locations across Exeter City Centre. Now in its 6th year, this festival was designed as a platform to bring communities together through the arts.

A truly unmissable event, the After Party is run by MIDI to showcase the rising...

The net amount of cash coming into and leaving a business is known as cash flow. The ability of a corporation to generate positive cash flows during the regular course of its business activities determines that company's success. Revenues from selling goods or services and income from investments make up a company's cash inflows. Expenses and debt repayments make up a company's outflows of cash going out of the business. Maintaining a positive cash flow may be a major concern for all organizations, big and small. A business may experience high expenses and cash flow issues even when...

UK businesses are being urged to play their part in the battle against needless water wastage following the imposition of drought measures by two of the UK’s largest water companies. Measures being advised include switching from flushing urinals to waterless urinals, saving hundreds of thousands of litres of water per year in businesses with more than one urinal.

Research undertaken by Exeter-based Smarti Environmental, the UK's leading waterless urinal provider, shows that there are currently around 3.5 million water-supplied urinals in the UK, which collectively waste 217 billion...

A trip to Portugal would be incomplete without a stop in Lisbon, the country's capital city. Our Lisbon travel advice will help you get the most out of your time there. The majority of Lisbon's attractions can be found in and around the city's historic centre. It's easy to get around the city on foot because everything is close enough to each other to make it doable. It's a joy to meander through the city's narrow cobblestone streets and be awed by its uniqueness.

The City of Seven Hills is another name for this area. When you take a stroll through the city, you'll quickly...

Of Lost Time, Future Science Group’s literary unit, publishes letters of note in anthologies that provide insights into prominent historical moments and the lives of influential individuals. Now, in publishing personal correspondence by Albert Einstein , Of Lost Time allows readers a glimpse into the mind of one of history’s greatest and most influential figures.

Here, we’ll explore a letter from the German-born theoretical physicist to his young son Hans. This letter highlights the ways that Einstein attempted to bond with his son despite their distant relationship in the days...

South Western Railway (SWR) is urging customers only to travel by rail if absolutely necessary between Thursday 18 and Sunday 21 August due to the planned industrial action.

Customers should expect severe disruption on the network and, if they must travel on any of those days, should seek to do so by other means.

SWR has published its strike days service levels for Thursday 18 August and Saturday 20 August, which will provide a severely reduced service on the routes Network Rail has made available.

Significant parts of the network will be closed entirely and...

A new grant fund has been launched by Devon County Council to tackle loneliness through transport. The Connecting You Community Grants Fund will provide grants to projects and organisations to help connect people to activities that help tackle loneliness.

The fund is open for applications from projects and charities across Devon. Grants can be applied for to fund specific transport projects tackling loneliness or transport related activities to enable people to access activities that will help.

The grant is part of a Department for Transport funded project that Devon...

Dartmoor National Park Authority has today introduced a temporary ban on open fires and barbecues on all common land within the National Park. The ban has been introduced in response to the prolonged dry weather and the risk wildfires can pose to people and animals, as well as damage to property and the natural environment. People who plan to spend time in the National Park are urged to be extremely vigilant to the increased risk of fires. A wildfire can start rapidly from things like a disposable barbecue, a cigarette or a match thrown out of a car window, or empty glass bottles left in...

South West based internet service provider, Jurassic Fibre, today announced the start of their ultrafast broadband network build in Cornwall.

The award-winning broadband company has already rolled out their state-of-the-art network to homes and businesses across Devon, Dorset and Somerset, where many towns and villages had previously struggled with inadequate and unreliable digital connectivity.

Bude marks the start of the broadband provider’s expansion across the region, with the Point of Presence site (the access location at which the Jurassic Fibre network will be...