Two new research programmes are helping find new ways to support people with dementia who experience problems with sleep.
Across the world, around 55 million people have dementia. Up to 90 per cent of them experience problems sleeping.
Both too much and too little sleep are common, and can have significant impacts on health, leading to falls, or worsening existing symptoms and increasing death rates. Commonly used sleeping tablets can also be particularly harmful to people with dementia .
Two research programmes led by the University of Exeter are now seeking to...
Six local projects have been awarded funding through Devon County Council’s Natural Capital Challenge Fund.
The £300,000 grant funding pilot scheme launched last year as part of Devon's £6 million recovery programme, which aims to provide help and support in four key areas: small and medium enterprises, employment and skills, the green recovery, and the hardest hit towns and communities. The Natural Capital Challenge Fund (NCCF) was created to stimulate the county’s post-Covid recovery through investment in the Natural Capital sector. The projects supported will contribute to job...
We have all decluttered our spaces before, but eco-friendly decluttering takes a little more consideration. Use these six simple ideas for sustainably removing clutter in your home.
It happens to everyone- you’re fine with how your home looks and feels until, one day, you realize that your living space has way too much stuff that makes it crowded. When this happens, it’s time to get rid of all the extra things you have but never actually use or need.
Whether you see decluttering as part of downsizing your cleaning efforts or simply simplifying your life, getting rid of...
Visitors to Exeter city centre can now recycle plastic bottle tops and tubs at a brand-new drop-off point in Princesshay Shopping Centre and help contribute to a more circular economy.
Leading south west recycling and waste management firm, DCW, has partnered with the popular shopping destination to run its Recycle & Raise scheme all year round. The plastic recycling scheme which asks the public to donate plastic tubs and bottle tops to raise funds for Dartmoor Zoo and mental health charity Mind, was previously operated by DCW only over the festive period.
The award-winning Devon Work Hubs network has expanded with the opening of three new hubs across the county and expansion of a fourth.
Devon County Council secured funding from the Heart of the South West LEP Getting Building Fund last year, which has now enabled three new Work Hubs to open in Great Torrington, Newton Abbot and Teignmouth. The extension of the Tavistock Enterprise Hub is also complete.
A further two Work Hubs are due to open in Ilfracombe and High Bickington in the coming months.
There are now 19 unique and flexible coworking spaces in the Devon...
2-Tone music “Legend” Neville Staple, ‘From the Specials’, also known as the ‘Original Rude Boy’ celebrates the 40th Anniversary of Ghost Town, one of his most iconic lead vocal hit songs of the 1980’s, with an exclusive 2Tone celebration tour.
Expect to party with nostalgic fashion, style and fun, while singing along to hits and classsics, like A Message To you Rudy, Gangsters, Too Much Too Young, and more, with unashamed passion.
Joining the well-loved rude boy and his highly celebrated band, will be Buster Shuffle, the brilliant & fun, cockney ska punk and ‘knees up...
Devon County Council is advising people to take extra care when travelling this Friday morning (February 18) with Storm Eunice expected to hit the region in the early hours.
The south west is expected to be battered by gale force winds from midnight to mid-morning on Friday and the Met Office has issued a Yellow Wind Warning.
Winds in coastal areas are expected to be the strongest with gusts of 60-70 mph possible over a reasonably large area.
Gusts could reach as high as 80 mph, even inland, and Devon County Council is warning that this could cause travel...
The Dartmoor Pony Heritage Trust at Parke near Bovey Tracy has a brand new car park donation cairn, thanks to the huge generosity of local builders, suppliers and the continuing loyal support of the charity’s many friends.
Earlier this year, the cairn was destroyed and the car park donations, which are used to purchase hay for the charity’s ponies, stolen.
But kind hearted businesses stepped forward to supply materials and their time to rebuild the cairn. Kenmart, Olympus Building Supplies and Stone Face Construction all proved the heroes of the hour with the former...
CISMP , or rather Certificate in Information Security Management Principles, is a certificate course that you can take to familiarize yourself with the principles of managing and securing both personal and corporate/business information. The short course takes just three days, and you can do it online. You get to receive the complete course materials once you subscribe and book for the training online. This course is ideal for every individual handling company or business information in any capacity. There is a need for such skills as companies adopt new technologies and systems for...
Taylor Wimpey Exeter recently helped pupils at St Martin’s Primary School in Cranbrook plant 10 new trees to mark the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee.
The donation from Taylor Wimpey was to support the school’s involvement in The Queen’s Green Canopy campaign, a unique tree planting initiative created to mark Her Majesty’s Platinum Jubilee this year which invites people from across the United Kingdom to “Plant a Tree for the Jubilee”.
Pupils worked together to plant the trees with the help of a Taylor Wimpey Sales Executive from the Cranbrook development.
