BGF, the UK and Ireland’s most active growth capital investor, has led a £2.5 million investment round into sustainable female underwear brand, Stripe & Stare, alongside a consortium of high-profile investors. BGF provided £1.5 million of growth capital with the remaining amount coming from private backers, including Richard Longhurst, co-founder of Lovehoney and Sam Galsworthy of Sipsmith Gin.
Headquartered in Devon, Stripe & Stare was founded in 2017 by friends and business colleagues Katie Lopes and Nicola Piercy, with the aim of creating the most comfortable and eco-...
Imagine a world in which the potential for creativity is endless, which can be changed and improved. A world where walls do not put pressure on people, but attract them. Whether it is your home or office, you spend your life there. You can revitalize this space in which you become the author of a new story. All you need is your vivid imagination, and you can Print On Your Wall .
How the image is applied
Using a UV printer, the image is applied directly to the wall. The picture chosen by the customer is "transferred" without any errors onto the vertical surface. Any wall can be...
The United Kingdom isn't known as home of football for nothing, it is indeed the birthplace of the game. Even the best bookmakers and sites ranking top bookies such as TopBettingSite.Co.UK get their biggest market from the UK. Football is considered more than just a game. It is regarded as a culture and most Brits support at least one of team.
As far as the country is concerned, a team’s identity and respect is usually determined by its number of supporters. Fanbase is one bragging right that football fans take seriously, so it is not surprising when fans proudly show off their...
It is no word of a lie that within society nowadays, we are heavily dependent on our TV and the functions that come along with it. Whether it be a smart TV or simply a standard TV, we like to ensure that we can depend on it to provide quality entertainment whenever we like. However, what happens if your TV aerial or satellite is struck by bad weather and your signal disappears due to misalignment, then what would you do? Well if this is the case, we would simply advise disappearing from the TV for a while and then returning to it when the weather has cleared up slightly, as this issue is...
The world’s largest garden wildlife survey returns, with hundreds of thousands of people watching and counting the UK’s garden birds over the last weekend in January for the RSPB’s Big Garden Birdwatch.
Over a million people took part in 2021, counting 17 million birds – making it the biggest Birdwatch ever! In Devon, nearly 29,000 people joined in.
Over the past year, we’ve seen how important the natural world is to our mental health and wellbeing. There has been a surge in interest in the nature on our doorsteps and many people have come to rely on garden birds to...
No matter the size of your organisation, cyber criminals are out there trying to break into your systems, day in and day out.
Even the smallest of companies can hold large amounts of sensitive and personal data. If this data ends up in the wrong hands, the damage can be catastrophic, both financially and on your reputation.
The good news is, there’s lots you can do as a business owner or manager to combat this risk.
We’ve outlined our top recommended strategies for taking your cyber security to the next level:
The 2022 ‘Outrun an Ambulance’ virtual event has been launched by the South Western Ambulance Charity.
People in the South West of England are being asked to rise to the challenge and support the region’s ambulance workers, by conquering the mileage an ambulance covers on an average shift while responding to people in urgent need.
The South Western Ambulance Charity, the charitable arm of the South Western Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust (SWASFT), first launched the ‘Outrun an Ambulance’ fundraiser in 2021 and generated nearly £12,000 of vital donations.
Beer is the most popular variety of alcoholic beverage in the UK, with around a third of consumers preferring it to wine, spirits and cider, according to Drinkaware . Despite its position at the top of the pile, there are still plenty of drinkers who’ve yet to be persuaded. But that might simply be because they’ve sampled the wrong kind of beer.
There are many, many different types of beer available. Some of them have been around for centuries, others have come about very recently in order to cater to drinkers with particular dietary requirements. Vegan and gluten-free beers have...
With the festive period out of the way and only months until the start of the new season in April, club cricketers in the UK will be starting to focus on pre-season training. Winter nets are a fundamental element in the cricketing calendar, helping players to get back into the swing of things before competitive fixtures start in the Spring. However, jumping into pre-season training after an overindulgent winter can increase the chances of injury, so it’s important to ease yourself back in. Below we’ll look at how you can prepare for winter nets to ensure that you can train consistently...
Funny, bizarre, (mostly) true cabaret-style guide to surviving the unbelievably mad life in Canada’s frozen north
Following almost two years of Covid induced postponements, Jennifer Irons’ riotous one-woman show Yukon Ho!, detailing her upbringing, life and ultimate escape from Canada’s frozen north is finally set to tour the UK. It comes to Bath Theatre Royal on 19 February and Exeter Phoenix on 20 February.
Yukon Territory, Northern Canada is where North America’s coldest temperature ever (-63 degrees Celsius) was recorded. It’s where there are more caribou than people...
