Imagine feeling left out of conversations because you can’t understand what your family are saying to you or the enormous sense of isolation because you can’t make yourself understood by your school friends or workmates.
Sadly, for many Deaf people this can be an everyday reality in the wider hearing world.
During National Deaf Awareness Week, 2-8 May, Exeter Deaf Academy opens registrations for a brand new challenge event called ‘Voice Off’. This is a fun communication challenge where individuals, schools, businesses, clubs and groups switch off their voice and find other...
When I was four years old, my Dad was told our surname might be stopping him from getting a job. So we changed it. It worked.
Worklight Theatre’s award-winning show Labels draws on writer and performer Joe Sellman- Leava’s experiences of being mixed heritage to explore broader issues of racism, immigration and displacement. Labels examines how we use words, the line between curiosity and fear, and the rise of anti-immigration rhetoric.
Despite being born in Gloucestershire, Sellman-Leava grew up constantly being asked where he was really from. Cheltenham! Here, he calls for...
Responsible pet ownership is an important message that East Devon District Council’s Environmental Health team, supported by East Devon Eddie (the council’s canine mascot), is keen to convey across the district and what better way to start than by visiting schools to educate young pet carers of the future.
As part of a programme to introduce young people to the do’s and don’ts of owning and looking after a dog, East Devon Eddie has been sending out members of his team to talk to Primary schoolchildren in Year 2 and above.
Around 30 motorists were caught speeding during a road safety operation on a busy Exeter road yesterday [28 April].
Exeter Neighbourhood Policing Team carried out the operation in Rydon Lane to target speeding motorists and educate drivers.
The operation was in response to concerns from the public about speeding and dangerous driving on the 40mph road, plus a number of reported collisions.
More than 30 vehicles were stopped near Pynes Hill during the two-hour operation, most for speeding at 50mph and above. The highest speed recorded was 60mph.
The most powerful man in European farming, EU Agriculture Commissioner, Phil Hogan, will be attending the Devon County Show on Thursday May 19.
Mr Hogan has accepted an invitation from NFU President, Meurig Raymond, to join him as a guest at the Show, and the Commissioner will also be guest of honour at the Devon Farm Business Awards presentation dinner on the previous evening.
Devon County Show organiser, Ollie Allen, who made the announcement at the press launch of this year’s Show in Exeter today, said that the visit was a tribute to the influence of the NFU, and in...
Experts from the University of Exeter and the Met Office will bring their research out of the laboratory and into city watering holes, as the world's largest festival of public science talks arrives in Exeter.
Pub goers will hear talks on everything from exposing the myths about obesity to hunting for hidden galaxies when 19 local researchers take to the stage as Exeter joins more than 100 cities around the world who will be taking part in a global festival from the 23rd – 25th May.
Tickets are now on sale at www.pintofscience.co.uk/events/exeter .
A decision by an independent planning inspector to allow development to go ahead in the Topsham Gap has been described as "extremely disappointing" by Exeter City Council.
Officers have strongly criticised the decision for failing to recognise local sentiment and called the government's formula for calculating housing supply as "illogical” and “fundamentally flawed".
The City Council originally refused the application for a 60 bed residential care home, 47 assisted living apartments and 55 homes for older people on a site north of Exeter Road, Topsham.
Devon may traditionally be one of the heartlands of Britain’s dairy industry, but it is now also home to one of the country’s most successful dairy free companies.
Moo Free Chocolates – the creators of the world’s first dairy free chocolate Easter egg – established a factory in Holsworthy last year.
Since expanding its operations to Devon, the company has tripled its production capacity to help it branch out into the American and Chinese markets, and it has this week been announced that it has won a Queen’s Award for Enterprise for international trade.
On Sunday 22 May, Harry Arksey an England Badminton Player will be joining the Exeter and District Special Olympics team for a charity fundraiser.
The badminton fun-day is packed with badminton games, coaching sessions and mini challenges. We also have eight volunteers who are taking on the challenge to play 12 hours of badminton straight.
The Badmintonathon is being hosted in the Sports Hall at Exeter University from 8am until 4pm; everyone is welcome!
The Special Olympics is a charity that gets people with intellectual disabilities (such as Autism and Down...
Four Exmoor ponies will spend the summer grazing the heathland at Trinity Hill. The ponies, which arrived on Monday April 25, are on loan from the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) in Aylesbeare, which look after the animals during the winter. The ponies will spend the summer at Trinity Hill, bringing new life to the heathland through conservation grazing.
Countryside Ranger, Nathan Robinson said: ‘’Livestock has been used throughout history as an essential component of heath land management. Selectively grazing vegetation helps to create a variety of ecological...
