An Exeter researcher has just been awarded £362,337 from leading charity Diabetes UK to understand if certain genes can protect people from developing Type 2 diabetes. Dr Hanieh Yaghootkar who works at the University of Exeter Medical School has been awarded Diabetes UK’s R D Lawrence Fellowship, set up in recognition of the life and work of the late Dr R D Lawrence, co-founder of Diabetes UK. It was as a medical student in her native Iran that Dr Yaghootkar realised that diagnosing and treating patients was not enough for her. She decided to become a researcher in genetics in a bid to...
Exeter Northcott Theatre has announced that acclaimed actor Robert Lindsay will perform in its 50th anniversary gala in November.
Robert is an Olivier-winning actor known for his acclaimed performances both on and off screen, including appearances with the Royal Shakespeare Company, as well his role as the hapless dentist Ben Harper in BBC’s My Family.
Robert Lindsay was part of the Exeter Northcott’s Rep Company during the early 1970s, alongside Brian Protheroe, John Nettles and Geraldine James. His Northcott career was particularly prolific, performing in a wide variety...
Your essential guide to What’s On in and around Exeter this weekend (28-30 July)
THEATRE
Comedy of Errors Friday, Saturday & Sunday, Rougemont Gardens, Exeter A brand-new adaptation of William Shakespeare’s The Comedy of Errors. Marrying a colourful circus-infused physicality with Shakespeare’s linguistic acrobatics and live music, this is a fast paced and joyous new outdoor staging of Shakespeare’s farce of mistaken identity. www.exeternorthcott.co.uk
The North! The North! Friday, Boat Shed Theatre, Exeter Quay Ahead of a run at the Edinburgh Fringe,...
The Exeter office of leading property consultancy JLL has announced one new promotion and two newly qualified chartered surveyors.
The team has been strengthened after two of its staff, Adelle Moore and Kye Daniel, passed their Assessment of Professional Competence Exams to become qualified chartered surveyors.
In addition, Mark Walter, from the residential team, has been promoted to local director level from associate director.
Tim Western, head of the Exeter office of JLL, said: "I'm delighted to announce that two members of the team have passed their APC exams...
Exeter College is celebrating a record breaking year by celebrating welcoming their 1,000th apprentice.
The 1,000th Apprentice is Jordanna Broom who is a higher engineering apprentice at the University of Exeter. Jordanna enjoyed her initial engineering training and has decided to pursue her career through one of the college’s higher level apprenticeships.
To celebrate this milestone and the ongoing relationship between the college and the university, a memento has been made by the University’s engineering apprentices and presented to the college.
In March 2016, Exeter Hospiscare nurse Daisy McLauchlan was travelling back from a weekend break on the Isle of Wight, when a call was sent out over the ship’s tannoy system asking for any doctors, nurses or first aiders on board to urgently make their way to the front of the vessel.
Daisy commented: “I was traveling with my husband Christopher, also a medic who was in the washroom when the call went out. So I made my way to the front of the ship where a crowd was gathered. A man was lying on the floor unresponsive and cyanosed.
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A total of 35 worthy community schemes have had Parishes Together Fund applications approved by the decision making panel of East Devon District councillors between April 2016 and March 2017. The same funding is available again now.
Designed to provide financial solutions to local issues, the Parishes Together Fund is a joint East Devon District Council and Devon County Council initiative in which the sum of £1.10 per elector in each parish is put into a central pot, which parish and town councils can then apply to for funding towards community projects. All projects, apart from...
Exeter Punks Picnic is a three day music event taking place in August. Organised by Old Hat Promotions, this is the first year such an event has been held in Exeter.
The event will span three days, (18th-20th August) and two venues - the Barnfield Theatre and the newly reopened from fire damage Cavern Club.
Friday the 18th will feature four acts at the Barnfield Theatre, 7pm-11pm. These are A Waste of Damnation, Skinners, Bastard and Plymouth punk favourites The Bus Station Loonies. This event is £5 entry and advance bookings can be made through the box office on 01392...
Westpoint Arena, Exeter became a sea of pink on Sunday as thousands of women joined the fight against cancer by taking part in Cancer Research UK’s Race for Life. Just under 4,000 mums, daughters, sisters and friends showed their incredible commitment to the cause as they came together over the weekend to help bring forward the day when all cancers are cured. Now organisers of the Pretty Muddy, 5k and 10k event are sending a heart-felt message of thanks to everyone who took part and all their supporters. And they’re asking them to make every step count by paying in their sponsorship money...
