Patients who are worried they are being ‘burden’ on the NHS are being reassured that safe, local health services are there for them.
There has been a significant decline in people seeking urgent and emergency treatment across the country since the beginning of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.
Doctors in Devon have noted a decrease in attendances across both GP practices and hospitals, and they are concerned that delays in getting treatment due to coronavirus fears pose a long term risk to people’s health.
Clinicians have been reaching out to people since...
Award-winning Cofton Holidays , specialists in delivering unforgettable eco-friendly holidays to Devon, have today announced their rewilding project due for completion in 2020. The innovative program, which started earlier this year, is a progressive approach to conversation and focuses on restoring the parks’ land to its natural, uncultivated state.
The plan developed by the local, family run business, will enable natural processes to shape the land and to create a heightened biodiverse habitat. The rewilding will improve wildlife connectivity across the site and will increase...
The Exeter branch of RGB Building Supplies is open for business and welcoming all customers.
Those visiting are being asked to respect and adhere to the strict social distancing and general hygiene guidelines that the builders merchant has put in place. These include customers being asked to use the hand-sanitising station when they enter and leave the branch, make transactions as contactless as possible, and respect the signage and two metre markers that are in the branch, yard and warehouse.
RGB is regularly cleaning all hard surfaces, door handles, work equipment and...
The ratings winning show ‘ Devon and Cornwall’ is set to return for a second season.
The series, which will air on Channel 4 at 8pm on June 8th, sets out to reveal life in this beautiful corner of England beyond that enjoyed by the millions of tourists and holidaymakers that visit each year.
The unique landscape – with empty beaches and windswept moors, rolling fields and deep harbours, is the place a thriving community chooses to call home… all year round.
It’s a world that includes villages built on fishing, like Clovelly and Brixham, farming centres like...
In 2020, property prices in cities across England, Scotland and Wales need to fall by an average of 37 per cent to £125,400 to make owning a home affordable for a single person earning an average wage.
For the second year running, the only place that is affordable for a single person with an average salary for that city and a mortgage of 3.5 times salary is Durham according to research from Open Property Group.
Using average salary and house price data for cities, it can reveal Oxford is the most overpriced place in England where prices would need to fall by 70 per cent...
New research carried out on behalf of the UK’s second largest Will writing company has revealed that more than 74,000 adults in Exeter do not have a will. FreeWills.co.uk is offering all adults in Devon the opportunity to create a free will online to try and address this crazy situation.
FreeWills.co.uk Managing Director Carl Christensen says, “Our mission is to provide an easy way for every British adult to make a personalised will, for free. We are here to help people make sure that their family and friends, and the charities they care about, are looked after.”
Taylor Wimpey Exeter has helped Cranbrook youngsters get more in touch with nature by delivering a load of topsoil to St Martin’s C of E Primary School.
Prior to the lockdown restrictions the site team at Cranbrook donated earth normally used for gardens and open spaces to help refill raised beds in St Martin’s forest school area, as well as some large planters. Outdoor lessons at St Martin’s give pupils the chance to develop their skills through practical, hands-on experiences in a natural environment.
Angela Whitten, Forest School Leader at St Martin’s, said: “Outdoor...
Creating sustainable plastics is vital for the future of our environment, a new report says .
It calls for urgent research on the impacts that plastic has on the living world right across its lifecycle, from the carbon footprint of the factories that produce it, right through to the impacts it has when discarded into the natural world as waste.
Chemical advances mean it is now possible to produce better, safer plastics, using more eco-friendly production methods, designing plastics that can be fully recycled and even by developing plastics that “degrade on demand” after...
YOU might have seen in the national press some research carried out on the surprising number of people who have begun to pray or accessed online church services during the lockdown even though they’ve not stepped inside a church for years?
According to the survey from Tearfund, nearly half of adults said they have prayed and a quarter of adults have engaged with a religious service online.*
In response to this interest in exploring faith, Rediscover Church in Exeter is running a new course online called Alpha which gives the opportunity for people to explore who God is...
Two refuse and recycling workers who went to the aid of a deer that had become trapped behind a bottle bank have been recognised by a leading animal rights charity.
Jason Blackmore and Neil Baker, who work for Exeter City Council, have been awarded PETA’s prestigious Hero to Animal Award in honour.
The big-hearted duo didn’t hesitate to act after they were alerted to the animal’s misfortune while emptying household rubbish bins in the St Thomas part of the city.
The pair leapt into action and managed to free the deer which had somehow managed to get trapped...
