Devon and Cornwall Police is launching a campaign designed to raise awareness of how domestic abuse can affect anyone and takes many forms.
The campaign will highlight the fact that domestic abuse can happen to anyone, at any age, in any kind of relationship. This phase will be highlighting the fact that domestic abuse can happen among groups such as the elderly, the disabled and same sex couples.
Domestic abuse isn’t just physical and can take many forms, such as intimidation, financial control, psychological abuse and others.
The Exeter Forum have donated bags of knitted woollen hats to the Emergency Department (ED) at the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital to help warm up hypothermic patients this winter.
The Forum is a social group for active retired people who meet regularly in Exeter. Members of the Forum were keen to continue their support for the Emergency Department after they donated a large number of knitted Twiddlemuffs to help patients with Dementia earlier in the year.
They asked staff what else they needed and the ED team gratefully took up their kind offer by requesting a batch of...
Top 40 accountants Bishop Fleming and Top 200 lawyers Stephens Scown, both with head offices based in Exeter, joined forces last Friday (16 December) to bring Christmas cheer to the shoppers of Princesshay.
The firms' choirs, ABBA-cus (Bishop Fleming) and The Rolling Scowns (Stephens Scown) provided a joint performance of Christmas songs to help Exeter shoppers get into the festive spirit whilst also raising valuable funds for Age UK Exeter.
A total of £209.72 was raised for the charity during the hour-long carol recital.
The second named storm of the season, Storm Barbara, which is bringing gales and squally rain to the UK today, is being followed by Storm Conor on Christmas Day and Boxing Day.
Those travelling today could face some travel disruption from Storm Barbara.
An Amber wind warning is in place for northern and western parts of Scotland for this afternoon and evening and two separate yellow wind warnings, one covering more northern areas where gusts of 60 to 70 mph are expected quite widely, and another covering parts of northern England, the South West and Wales where an intense,...
Cotley Christmas Tree Farm welcomed a highly unexpected arrival in the summer of this year.
Cotley Farm owner, Helen Bowker, says “It turns out that the calf was born a little early and her mother didn’t have any milk at first. Even if she had, the baby reindeer was so small she couldn’t have reached the teats! So for the first 10 days of her life, I had to hand feed her with a bottle. Luckily she grew quickly and was soon able to feed from her mother – which was a relief as reindeer milk is 20% fat so is hard to substitute for a long period. This just goes to show how vulnerable...
A partnership of three research institutions, led by the University of Exeter, has secured a £5m award to help protect the beautiful natural resources and the jobs dependent on them in the South West.
Experts from Exeter, working with scientists at the University of Plymouth and Plymouth Marine Laboratory, will work with businesses, policy makers and other organisations in the region to help them enhance their activities and decisions by applying the latest technological advances, scientific research and understanding of the environment.
A giant snow globe in the city has raised over £1,200 for Exeter Deaf Academy, Princesshay’s charity of the year. The snow globe allows passers-by to climb inside, play in the pretend snow and have a festive photo taken.
Princesshay’s Operations Manager, Andy Littlejohns said: “Exeter Deaf Academy is a local, dynamic charity which provides excellent support for the deaf community. The snow globe was so popular last year so we knew we wanted to bring it back, raising funds for the Academy in the process.”
Princesshay announced Exeter Deaf Academy as its charity partner for...
Don’t putt it off! Register your team today for the ELF Golf Day 2017.
Join Steve Rider for ELF’s Annual Golf Day on 15th June 2017, sponsored by Brewin Dolphin. Come for a fun day at the Exeter Golf and Country Club where the sun usually shines for us!
Teams will enjoy refreshments on arrival, a round of golf on the superb EGCC course and a BBQ meal after their round. The golf tournament will be a 18 hole Stableford format with one score to count and a chance to win some great prizes. Tee times will be allocated on a first come, first served basis so please don't delay in...
Staff in the restaurants, at Exeter’s new dining destination, were in the festive spirit on Friday when they wore their best Christmas jumpers to raise money for charity.
Queen St. Dining’s Comptoir Libanais, KuPP, The Stable, The Terrace and Absurd Bird all participated in Christmas Jumper Day on Friday 16th December to raise money for Save the Children. Staff dressed up in their seasonal gear to spread festive cheer among Exeter’s diners.
Each restaurant collected donations throughout the day and as a result, Queen St. Dining raised over £600 for the children’s charity...
Tesco Extra Exeter Vale is lighting up Christmas for a charity which provides treatment and therapies for children and young people throughout Devon with physical difficulties. Manager Ian Dyer, Community Champion Jo Evans and Tesco colleagues from the Russell Way store visited Vranch House to deliver an eight-foot Christmas artificial tree and help put up festive lights and decorations. The store also handed over a cheque for £500 to Kate Moss, Head of Therapy and Ian Norton, Head of Education, at the charity, based on Pinhoe Road, Exeter. Vranch House is a centre for the treatment of...
