Today the Government is announcing changes to The Highway Code to enhance safety for all road users, particularly those most at risk.
The changes include the introduction of a hierarchy of road users, the adoption by motorists of the so-called ‘Dutch Reach’ to help reduce the risk of injuring passing cyclists and pedestrians, and fresh guidance to cyclists about riding in the centre of a lane on quieter roads to make themselves more visible.
Commenting on the changes, Jason Wakeford, head of campaigns at Brake, the road safety charity , said: “Brake welcomes the changes...
Exeter-based broadband company, Jurassic Fibre, has helped raise money for Devon charity Hospiscare by helping them swap Christmas trees for cash.
The award-winning telecoms company, which is currently delivering gigabit connectivity to overlooked communities across the South West, supported Hospiscare by volunteering staff members and vans to assist in the charity’s Christmas Tree Recycling fundraiser.
The initiative involved collecting people’s Christmas trees to recycle in exchange for donations to Hospiscare. 1,200 trees were collected from Exeter, Exmouth and Honiton...
The South West’s leading independent commercial waste management firm DCW has acquired the assets of electrical recycling company South West Computer Recycling.
After Somerset-based South West Computer Recycling, trading as WEEE Disposal, went into liquidation, DCW acquired its assets, allowing it to extend the reach of its Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) recycling service nationwide. Customers of WEEE Disposal will also now have access to DCW’s portfolio of other Zero to Landfill services which cover all types of waste from confidential data to clinical waste,...
The number of electric car charging points for public use went up by 9% from 1 October 2021 to 1 January 2022, according to Department for Transport figures.
There are now 2,448 more available charging devices across the country.
Publicly accessible rapid charging devices increased by 233, a 5% rise in three months.
This brings the total of publicly accessible charging points nationwide to 28,375, of which 5,156 are rapid charging devices.
Over the course of 2021, the number of publicly accessible charging points increased by 37%, an additional 7,600...
A new competition is challenging school, college and university students around Exeter to discover and share the stories of lesser known LGBTQ+ scientists, technologists, engineers, mathematicians and medics.
Ahead of LGBTQ+ history month in February, the Queer Science Competition (QSC), was launched on 24 January by PRISM Exeter – in association with the University of Exeter, Intercom Trust, Exeter College, Devon Schools Leadership Services and Exeter Science Centre.
The team want to hear from students aged 11+ across the greater Exeter* area on whose life and/or work...
The University of Exeter has announced that Quentin Woodley is to be the new Chair of Council, the University’s governing body, and Pro-Chancellor with effect from 1 August 2022.
An experienced board chair with a background in finance, investment and strategy, Quentin was a senior partner at McKinsey & Company, the international strategy consulting firm, for many years. In addition, he has formerly served as Vice Pro Chancellor (Deputy Chair of Council) at the University of Leeds. He currently chairs the boards of several large defined benefit pension schemes.
Repair Shop presenter Jay Blades is taking part in a new BBC documentary which will follow his journey as he faces up to the challenge of learning to read as an adult with charity Read Easy UK.
Jay concealed his inability to read until he was in his 30s, after he struggled to learn to read as a child. Jay is not alone - a quarter of all children in England leave primary school (1), like Blades, unable to read to the expected level. Nearly seven million adults in the UK have very poor literacy skills (2). Many are too ashamed or embarrassed to come forward and ask for help....
Mission statistics for 2021 reveal just how vital the response of the Devon Air Ambulance medical emergency service is to the people of Devon, as they experience their busiest year ever.
Throughout another challenging year for many public services and charities, the crew at Devon Air Ambulance has been tasked to attend over 1900 incidents across Devon and were also called to assist across our borders in neighbouring counties of Cornwall, Somerset, Dorset and one mission to Hampshire.
Of those 1900 missions, 844 were to help patients with medical emergencies (those...
Finding the perfect birthday present is a tricky business. Whenever someone you love is having a birthday – no matter whether it’s a partner, parent, friend, sibling or even a cherished work colleague – you want to show them how much you appreciate them by getting them something special.
Rather than settle for a bottle of wine, socks, or novelty mug, try to find a present that’s unique to them, and which speaks to your relationship.
Here are just a few out-of-the-box birthday present ideas to get you started.
A new partnership from Co-op and Cruse Bereavement Support is aiming to help people talk about death and grief more openly, as the nation continues to emerge from the devastating effects of the Coronavirus pandemic.
YouGov research* out today reveals that four in ten adults living in the South West (48%) who have not experienced a bereavement admit to being unprepared in knowing how to help a bereaved friend or relative and almost a fifth (17%) have actively gone out of their way to avoid someone who is grieving because they don’t know what to say to them.
