Startup and potential high growth businesses in Devon are set to receive a new year boost following the collaboration between the University of Exeter SETsquared Exeter programme and the Node Enterprise Centre .
The partnership will see SETsquared Exeter work together with Node’s startup support experts to strengthen its offering and grow its network, reaching out to more potential business founders across the region.
This comes as part of the University of Exeter Enterprise Zone project. Made possible due to funding from the ERDF, it has boosted the expansion of its...
Struggling to buy a home? Find a pair of keys launched from space and you can win a whopping £10,000 towards your house deposit!
In this exciting new competition, led by regulated property buyers, GoodMove a pair of keys are being launched into space! They will land anywhere in the UK, and the first person to find them and call the number on the keys will get their hands on £10,000 to use towards a house deposit*.
And with average house prices now standing at an average of £276,091¹ - who wouldn’t love a bit of extra help towards getting their dream home?
Cases of COVID-19 are at their highest in Devon this month since the pandemic began, leading health experts to renew their calls urging pregnant women to have their vaccine.
Pregnant women with COVID-19 have a higher risk of intensive care admission , however research by the UK Obstetric Surveillance System found that no fully vaccinated pregnant women were admitted to intensive care with COVID-19 in England between February and the end of September last year. During the same time period at least 55,000 pregnant women had received one or more doses in the UK.
The real reasons behind the UK’s record low numbers of business insolvencies in 2021 will be explored in this article.
No matter what industry or sector you’re in, starting a new business will always carry with it an element of risk. There’s nothing more disheartening than putting your heart and soul into a new business, only to see it fail. But, the good news for UK business is that, in February 2021, the number of business insolvencies and bankruptcies dropped by a record 49 percent compared to February 2020.
While this may be encouraging news for business owners -...
Just when you thought you’d seen it all, Heinz and the fried chicken experts at Absurd Bird have gone ‘clucking mad’ and created a succulent limited-edition burger, with the nation’s favourites: Heinz Beanz and Heinz Tomato Ketchup.
The DHOOM! Burger, meaning ‘explosion’ in Hindi, is a plant-based dish like no other which showcases a new and exciting way to enjoy Britain’s most-loved store cupboard staples. With flavours influenced by Mumbai, the burger packs a fiery plant-based punch and will certainly turn up the temperature this month.
It’s not surprising that solicitor divorce enquiries surge following the stressful festive period every January. According to statistics, around 42% of marriages end in divorce and in 2019 there were 108, 421 in the UK.
Divorcing can be one of the most stressful and turbulent periods of your life, often with families, living arrangements and finances to worry about. If you are considering a divorce, then it’s always worth finding out the legal facts and procedures from a reputable family lawyer, if you are looking for advice or information, this page lists the best divorce...
Browne Jacobson has announced its new charity partners which it will support to raise vital funds for over the next two years. Each of the firm’s five offices have nominated a local community charity that underpin its commitment to diversity and inclusion as well as corporate social responsibility. The regional charities include two organisations that are focused on tackling homelessness, an organisation that works with unemployed and disadvantaged young people; an organisation that is helping to forge connections between young people from diverse, lower income backgrounds and...
Extensive preventative work by highways teams has improved the overall condition of Devon’s roads, with 27 per cent fewer potholes recorded than four years ago.
The figures coincide with National Pothole Day, an annual opportunity to take stock of the ‘health’ of the nation’s highways.
Councillor Stuart Hughes, Devon County Council’s Cabinet Member for Highways Management says that in Devon the general state of the roads over the last four years has improved; in 2018, 67,989 potholes were recorded; in 2021 this number fell to 49,871.
Businesses, no matter what industry they are in, need to have a good marketing strategy if they want to be successful. Marketing is all about creating awareness of a company and its products or services and reaching as many people as possible. There are many different types of marketing strategies, and each one has its strengths and weaknesses. There are also various tools available that can help you capture more leads, increase sales and reduce cart abandonment since more and more people move away from brick and mortar stores and move online. One such toolkit is found on Socital’s...
Using a different language can reduce vaccine hesitancy, study finds
Vaccine hesitancy could be reduced by providing health information in a foreign language, a new study finds.
The study found that when presenting two groups with the same information about vaccines in two different but familiar languages, the use of one language corresponded with a 7% higher number of people saying “yes” and a 7% lower number of people saying “unsure” when asked whether they intended to get vaccinated.
The research, led by Assistant Professor Janet Geipel from the University of...
