Residents at Millbrook retirement village, in Exeter, which is owned by later living operator Inspired Villages, dressed in their finery and enjoyed a garden afternoon tea to celebrate The Queen’s 95th Birthday on 21st April.
Residents made the most of the sunny weather and enjoyed a ‘socially distanced’ afternoon tea of coronation chicken, smoked salmon, cream cheese and cucumber finger sandwiches. For the royal inspired menu, the village chef also prepared homemade fruit scones with clotted cream and strawberry jam, homemade butter biscuits, a fruit cake and Victoria sandwich...
Residents at Millbrook retirement village, in Exeter, which is owned by later living operator Inspired Villages, dressed in their finery and enjoyed a garden afternoon tea to celebrate The Queen’s 95th Birthday on 21st April.
Residents made the most of the sunny weather and enjoyed a ‘socially distanced’ afternoon tea of coronation chicken, smoked salmon, cream cheese and cucumber finger sandwiches. For the royal inspired menu, the village chef also prepared homemade fruit scones with clotted cream and strawberry jam, homemade butter biscuits, a fruit cake and Victoria sandwich...
Nine teams of young people across Devon and Somerset have made it to the national finals of the Amazon Longitude Explorer Prize this year. This includes five different teams from Churston Ferrers Grammar School near Brixham – a record in the prize’s history.
The Amazon Longitude Explorer Prize, delivered by Nesta Challenges, pairs entrepreneurial skills not usually taught in the classroom with the STEM curriculum to encourage young innovators from across the UK aged 11-16 to create tech solutions to the big challenges of our time - such as climate change, healthy living, ageing...
The family of a Devon man, who worked as a fireman on steam trains and as a BT engineer, is appealing to his former colleagues for answers about how he was exposed to asbestos, which caused his death.
Antony Talbot, who was born in Exwick and lived in Exeter, died aged 88 in October last year, one month after he was diagnosed with mesothelioma, a terminal asbestos-related lung cancer.
His family believe that he was exposed to asbestos when he worked for GWR Exeter in the 1950s and when he installed underground cables for BT from the 1960s until the 1980s. They are now...
Indie-pop trio Scouting for Girls have confirmed a huge UK tour for Autumn 2021, including a date at Exeter Corn Exchange on 25th October.
With their new album ‘Easy Cover’ due on 23rd April, the band have announced an extensive UK tour for the Autumn. Going back to the music and culture of their childhoods in the 1980s, the band regrouped during what should have been a summer of festivals to create a joyous album of 80s covers alongside some incredible new tracks, and an optimism that 2021 can be everything that 2020 was not.
Leading independent software company RapidReg Ltd. located in Exeter is on a quest to plant 1 billion trees as part of an aspiring initiative to save the planet by offsetting the carbon footprint generated by businesses, whilst helping them to attract a new wave of green-minded consumers all for just 15p per tree.
Studies suggest between 75%-90% of the total global carbon emissions are produced by businesses and not individuals. Proactive tech entrepreneur Chris Collins co-founder of ‘The Billion Trees Project’, a non-profit arm of his RapidReg brand said: “These are scary...
Optix Solutions Recognised as Top UK Digital Marketing Agency by The Drum
The team at Optix Solutions has been recognised as one of top Marketing Agencies in the UK in The Drum’s UK Digital Agency Census 2021 .
Optix Solutions has come in at number 12 on the marketing magazine’s shortlist of 50 British marketing firms for Client Ratings. The honour is a testament to the commitment to client satisfaction by the team at Optix Solutions during the last year.
How Does an Agency Get Listed in The Drum’s UK Digital Agency Census?
The FORCE Cancer Charity Shop in Heavitree is having a CD fayre on Sunday May 9. The whole of the shop floor will be dedicated to all the fabulous CDs that have been gathered while lockdown forced all but essential retail to close. “We have rock, pop, indie, 80s, 90s - you name it we probably have it,” said shop manager Anna Heard. “This is a collection of the best quality CDs that our lovely volunteers Nik and Kevin have been gathering and normally take along a small selection to the Exeter Record Fayre at the Corn Exchange. “We look forward to attending the next record fayre there as it...
The BHF Exeter is delighted to be reopening this spring and is appealing to the local community to get involved by donating the gift of time to support the charity’s recovery from the coronavirus crisis.
The BHF Exeter is inviting nearby residents who may be looking for something new to try, to take on some of the fantastic volunteering roles available. As well as providing crucial support to the BHF, volunteering can also provide great work experience, boost your CV, increase wellbeing and provide a social network within the local community.
The RNLI in the South West has today released its annual rescue figures which show that despite much of the year spent under lockdown restrictions, the regions volunteer lifeboat crews were as busy as ever and launched on average four times a day.
The latest annual statistics for 2020 show the RNLI’s volunteer crews at the 33 lifeboat stations in the South West* launched 1,291 times, aided 1,225 people and saved 30 lives, up on the 29 lives saved in 2019. During the summer, RNLI lifeguards on beaches across the region attended 6,287 incidents and aided 9,179 people and saved 56...
