East Devon MP, Hugo Swire, marked Carers Week 2016 by meeting Bluebird Care’s customers and Care Assistants in West Hill and Ottery St Mary on Friday 10th July.
Carers Week is an annual campaign to raise awareness of caring, highlight the challenges carers face and recognise the contribution they make to families and communities throughout the UK.
Mr Swire began by meeting Mr and Mrs Deung in West Hill and their full-time Live In Care Assistant Atlanta, before presenting the awards at Bluebird Care’s Long Service Presentation at the Tumbling Weir Hotel. This quarterly event...
Compss House crèche, in Magdalen Road, St Leonard's, is mainly used by mothers suffering from post natal depression who place their children there whilst receiving treatment.
After being 'saved' last November following a campaign of protests from users and others, it is again threatened with closure.
Devon County Council began a new consultation on 22nd June that is due to finish on 13th July 2016. The proposal is to close the crèche and assist users to make use of other sources of childcare such as childminders.
The worry is that on-site provision of child care,...
Exeter has made some great strides in meeting the needs of people with physical disabilities, but may be lagging behind in making adjustments for autistic people.
We all realise that a wheelchair user needs a ramp, rather than steps, to get into a building. It can be harder to know what changes to make to welcome someone with Autistic Spectrum Disorder.
Understanding can be limited by stereotype and myth. Back in the 1950’s, child psychologist Bruno Bettelheim thought that Autism was caused by Refrigerator Mothers, and this was widely believed. Research using brain scans...
Jehovah’s Witnesses will be hosting their 2016 “Remain Loyal to Jehovah!” conventions in countries around the world.
The public is invited to attend this three-day event free of charge. The theme of this year’s three-day program is “Remain Loyal to Jehovah!” and it will feature 49 presentations, each exploring the theme “loyalty.” Additionally, the Witnesses have prepared 35 video segments specifically for the program plus two short films that will be shown on Saturday and Sunday. Each day, the morning and afternoon sessions will be introduced by music videos recorded for the...
Solana are an instrumental gypsy-folk band. Hailing from all corners of Europe, their style reflects the diversity of their backgrounds and interests: their sound encompasses folk, swing, klezmer, flamenco, latin, reggae and trip-hop. Their live shows combine intricate arrangements with energetic performances and healthy doses of improvisation, and have been getting crowds dancing across the UK, France and Spain since their formation in late 2012.
“Plaintive Spanish guitars meet exuberant Celtic flutes and irrepressible fiddles in a feast of Jiggery-Polkary” --- John Blakely, Ear...
Free entry before 8:30pm and only £1 on the door afterwards. Hazaar! will be on stage from 10:30pm-1am.
A raucous orkestra of Klezmer mayhem, this Gypsy circus of madness will take you across the Balkans on a night of merry dance. Hazaar play unique arrangements fusing elements of funk, dub, rock and jazz into their krazy circus style performances.
Bio Hazaar has brought together seven musicians each with a very different history of influences and styles. The traditional tunes that the band perform have become a fresh fusion that demonstrates the virtuosity and creativity...
Tiverton Fire Station is looking for prospective on-call firefighters to join the crew.
Devon & Somerset Fire & Rescue Service is looking for people in the Tiverton community to be on-call or ‘retained’ firefighters. No previous experience of firefighting is necessary for this role – the ideal prospective firefighter starts with a commitment to the community, a positive attitude and a good level of fitness.
This is an opportunity for men and women who live and/or work within five minutes response time to the fire station to potentially save lives in fire, flood and...
Kaleider, a production studio based in Exeter, has published Ancient Sunlight, Stories From The Oil Age created by six artists and over two hundred young people from schools and library groups in Exeter.
Starting with the question ‘What should we do with the last barrel of oil?’, the artists led workshops about the affordances of oil, what we have and value and how those values might be shifted or sustained in the future. Exploring the subject through screen printing, illustration, poetry, script writing and scientific investigation, the artists collaborated with the young people...
Letting someone walk your dog, filling your spare room or making use of your unused car – these are all ways you can be a part of the ‘Sharing Economy’. In its simplest form, the ‘Sharing Economy’ helps people make the most of the things that they have. This means a new way of living and a new way of spending money. Despite the endless opportunities to make and save money, just 10% of the public are aware of what it is.
This comes during Global Sharing Week (5th-11th June) from a brand new study by HiyaCar, the platform that allows you to rent cars from people in your community....
The Exeter Book, one of Exeter Cathedral’s greatest treasures, has been granted UNESCO Memory of the World status, signalling its ‘outstanding significance’ to British and world history.
The award will be presented tonight at the Senedd, the National Assembly building for Wales, in Cardiff.
The Exeter Book joins only 50 other documents on the UK register listing important historical documents.
Professor Emma Cayley, Associate Professor of Medieval Literature at the University of Exeter, said: “This recognition now puts the Exeter Book in the same category as the...
