Leading local advice charity, Citizens Advice Exeter, has released the results from its fifth economic well-being survey.
Citizens Advice Exeter Chief Executive Steve Barriball said: “A key finding is that more than half of those who responded to the survey, some 62%, said that they were worried about their financial position.
This is up significantly from 51% earlier in the year. Whilst income levels seem to have stabilised, with 61% of those responding saying their income levels remained the same, only 18% of respondents had seen their expenditure reduce.
OEP Live! present An Audience with Martin Kemp at Exmouth Pavilion on 9 September.
In this up close night the musician and actor will be discussing his life in the public eye and answering audience questions.
Martin Kemp is most famed for playing bass guitar in the new romantic band Spandau Ballet. The group went on to tour the world and had a number of Top 20 hits in the 80’s. The single ‘True’ made the American Top 10. The band reformed recently and Martin has spent the last two years touring the world promoting the film ‘Soul Boys of the Western World’ and playing to...
There is something for everyone at this summer’s Dartmoor Wildlife Festival which takes place at Meldon Old Quarry on Tuesday 15 August.
Discover more about a variety of Dartmoor creatures and their homes through a series of free drop in events and workshops. There is something for everyone with all ages catered for. Immerse yourself in stream dipping, butterfly walks, wildlife gardening or make your own wildlife homes to take away with you - just a small selection of the activities on offer.
Spend the day with us and our wildlife partners on 15 August. You can bring a...
Exmouth’s new £1.5 million Mamhead Slipway has been officially opened, restoring the vital maritime access to the town’s wonderful waterside after an absence of more than four years.
Larger and more practical than the previous structure, the new slipway on the River Exe reinstates the town’s maritime leisure tradition and will bring more business to the town. The majority of the work was funded by East Devon District Council with Devon County Council putting £275,000 in to the project.
The old slipway was closed in 2012 due to public safety and the council decided to...
Channel 4’s First Dates is in search of singles from across the UK for a brand new series of First Dates and First Dates Hotel The makers of hit show First Dates are on the hunt for dating hopefuls as they prepare to throw open the doors to the First Dates restaurant in London and the First Dates Hotel, which this series is going to be in a stunning new romantic location in Southern Italy! The First Dates team are calling on people from across the UK to apply – particularly single men aged 65 or over. The producers say: ‘We are thrilled to be embarking on another series of both First Dates...
Following advice from the East Devon District Council Countryside team, the grassland on the Maer Local Nature Reserve in Exmouth will be cut less regularly in order to increase the wildlife and biodiversity on the site.
The nature reserve, which is owned and managed by East Devon District Council’s countryside and streetscene services, used to be mown extensively throughout the year, this allowed walkers and dogs free-roam of the site. The high footfall, particularly in the summer, had a negative impact on a variety of species, including locally rare sea holly and a number of...
Scientists have developed a new test that can pick out women at high risk of relapsing from breast cancer within 10 years of diagnosis.
Their study looked for immune cell ‘hotspots’ in and around tumours, and found that women who had a high number of hotspots were more likely to relapse than those with lower numbers.
The new test could help more accurately assess the risk of cancer returning in individual patients, and offer them monitoring or preventative treatment.
Scientists at The Institute of Cancer Research, London, analysed tissue samples from 1,178 women...
Researchers from the University of Exeter have pioneered a new technique to control high frequency sound waves, commonly found within everyday devices such as mobile phones.
The research team, led by Professor Geoff Nash from the University of Exeter, have created a new structure that can manipulate the extreme frequency sound waves – also known as surface acoustic waves or ‘nanoquakes’ , as they run across the surface of a solid material in a similar manner to earthquake tremors on land.
Although surface acoustic waves (SAWs) form a key component of a host of technologies...
A council leader has called for an emergency meeting to discuss transport issues in Exeter after the city’s roads ground to a halt this week following a road traffic incident.
Exeter City Council Leader Pete Edwards has written to Devon County Council, the Police, Highways England, and Exeter Chamber of Trade and Commerce, calling for an urgent meeting to thrash out the problems.
He said: “As things stand, there seems little prospect of things improving, and it will get to the point where people will not want to come to Exeter.”
Exeter City Council Leader Pete Edwards has called for an inquiry into the traffic chaos that brought Exeter to a standstill yesterday (Wednesday 2 August). Most of the city became gridlocked following an accident on the A38 near Haldon Hill and some people were stuck in traffic for up to four hours. Cllr Edwards said these sort of incidents were happening more and more often and Devon County Council as the transport authority needed to focus its efforts on tackling these issues. “I have never seen Exeter’s roads so bad,” blasted Cllr Edwards. “How can an accident on Haldon cause gridlock...
