Tomorrow (Tuesday 11 October) is World Obesity Day, and today the British Dietetic Association pushes for junk free checkouts as new figures from the World Obesity Federation indicate that 3.28 million school aged children in the UK will be overweight or obese by 2025. On current trends, obesity-related diseases will increasingly affect school-children, including 43,000 with type 2 Diabetes and 296,000 with hypertension by 2025.
The British Dietetic Association (BDA), founded in 1936, is the professional association and trade union for dietitians (the only legally regulated...
International law firm Trowers & Hamlins has expanded its litigation team with the hire of Senior Associate Kathryn Insall in the firm's Exeter office.
Kathryn joins from Clyde & Co and brings 9 years of experience in trial, arbitration and mediation, particularly across the aviation and aerospace sectors.
Kathryn has represented aviation insurers, airlines and manufacturers worldwide and has been heavily involved in high profile aviation disaster work. She also has vast experience in defending passenger and cargo claims on behalf of airlines and their insurers...
Beacon Life 2 - a snapshot of life in Beacon Heath's community centre
Boxes of baby clothes are piled high on the right hand side of my desk at The Beacon Community Centre and on my left there are two boxes of bread.
My desk, with its squeaky chair, sits in the middle of this chaos and I love it; this is a community centre in action!
Richard, our centre manager, apologised for the cramped working space but I told him that these boxes are the reason I’m here – to give a helping hand to local people. Who needs trendy, clutter free offices with sterile designer chairs...
Team Oxjam Exeter raised a magnificent £4,372.87 for Oxfam on Saturday 1st October, when 34 bands and artists played live across 3 stages at Timepiece Bar, Courtyard and Old Timers Bar in Exeter.
Exeter is just one of many town and cities all over the UK taking part in Oxjam music festivals this October.
Exents began at 2pm on the Saturday and continued rocking until 11pm; showcasing amazing talents from outstanding, local musicians including: Lionstar,
Chay Snowdon, Beaconfire, Boundless Brothers and Sadie Horler.
A free online basic skills session is being held in Exeter on 21 October 2016 to help blind and partially sighted people get online and take their first steps in using technology.
Sight loss charity RNIB (Royal National Institute of Blind People) has been holding workshops across the UK to support people living with sensory loss in getting online as part of its ambitious Online Today project.
Partner organisation Action for Blind People will be holding the workshop at Devon in Sight, Station House, Holman Way, Topsham, Exeter, EX3 OEN. The session will take place on Friday...
Health chiefs from around the South West will gather together to hear results of a ground-breaking pilot to tackle hepatitis C in the South West. Learning from this work will be used to help inform the delivery of hepatitis C services nationally.
The Tackling Hepatitis C in the South West Summit will take place on October 14 at 2pm in the Kennford and Exminster Room at the Exeter Court Hotel, Kennford, Exeter. In 2014, national charity Addaction, The Hepatitis C Trust and pharmaceutical company AbbVie formed a partnership to pilot an ambitious project to improve access to hepatitis...
Beyond the Barricade has been touring throughout the UK and Europe for more than a decade bringing the greatest songs in musical theatre to the whole country. The show visits Exeter Corn Exchange on Sunday 23 October.
Beyond the Barricade recreates, totally live, original West End and Broadway hit songs with amazing authenticity. The cast of past principal performers from Les Miserables present a blockbusting two hour show that is now established as the nation’s favourite musical theatre concert.
The show features songs from Phantom of the Opera, Jesus Christ Superstar, The...
As part of the Submariners Association initiative the sixth Blue Plaque commemorating a WWI Submariner and VC holder was placed at the Cathedral Choir School, Exeter on Saturday 24th September 2016.
Approximately 120 guests, which included the Deputy Lord Lieutenant of Devon Commodore Jake Moores OBE, DL, RN; the High Sheriff of Devon Mrs. A.M. Gilbert; the Chairman of Devon County Council Cllr. Andrew Moulding; Deputy Lord Mayor of Exeter Cllr Peter Holland; the Headmaster of Exeter Cathedral Choir School James Featherstone and members of the Sandford family, joined veteran and...
A local charity is playing a key part in an initiative which is protecting the nation’s ‘tree heritage’.
Throughout October Devon Wildlife Trust is collecting seed from a series of well-known local wild tree and shrub species including rowan, crab apple, raspberry, silver birch, honey suckle and elder. The collections are an important part of a national project to protect the UK’s trees.
The charity is undertaking the work as a partner in the UK National Tree Seed Project, which has been set up by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew’s Millennium Seed Bank, with funding from...
This October visitors to Powderham Castle will have the chance to get a glimpse of one of Devon’s most spectacular natural phenomona, the rut of Powderham’s ancient fallow deer herd.
Many will remember how the stunning deer park and its ancient trees played host this summer to 50,000 revelers at the Radio 1 Big Weekend. But outside of concerts and events, the deer park is home to a majestic herd of 600 fallow deer who roam the 200-acre deer park, which has been maintained for centuries. Indeed Coldplay’s Chris Martin famously reminded the Big Weekend crowd that it is the deer that...
