Devon based wellbeing specialist Annie Ford, has recently launched a new range of aromatherapy products for women.
Well Well Aromatherapy includes candles and oils all made from natural products as well as organic balms.
Annie’s Well Well Aromatherapy journey began with the completion of a diploma in clinical aromatherapy and since then she has spent several years developing the portfolio of products.
Annie, who’s impressive career has included time as a nurse, midwife, Macmillan nurse, manager, coach and wellbeing therapist, has launched the range to provide women...
A leading remote aerial filming company has teamed up with local digital marketing agency MiHi Digital to launch their new website.
Flyonix, whose clients include the BBC, ITV, Avios and Stanley recently gained international attention and more than 150,000 YouTube views when they developed their own flying Tardis and took to the skies over rural Devon.
Ben Bailey, Director at Flyonix explained, “We’ve placed innovation and creativity at the heart of our company. With this we’ve been known to undertake a variety of more unusual projects. Whether it be flying washing machines...
A Devon NHS organisation has won an award for its work in promoting the recruitment of apprentices.
The Northern, Eastern and Western Devon Clinical Commissioning group (NEW Devon CCG) scooped the Education Training Skills (ETS) Large Employer of the Year Award at a ceremony at the Buckerell Lodge in Exeter on 4 March.
It was a double success for the NHS organisation on the night after Howard Stamp, acting safety systems officer with the nursing directorate, also won the ETS Apprentice of the Year for Outstanding Contribution Award.
Devon’s wild beauty is one of the county’s greatest assets. Its environment provides us not just with amazing landscapes and wildlife but with food, fuel, pollination, flood control and great recreational and business opportunities. It is therefore important that we know how our environment is faring.
These are some of the major conclusions of a newly released ‘stock-check’ on the county’s priority species and the habitats in which they live.
The report called The State of Devon’s Nature, is being launched this Friday (7 March 2014) at a special one-day conference in...
Greg Bateman says Exeter Chiefs will need to produce an “80-minute performance” if they are to break their Bath hoodoo and book a place in this season’s LV= Cup final.
The two Westcountry rivals will engage in battle for a fourth time this season at the Recreation Ground on Sunday (1pm) – and the stakes could not be higher with victory ensuring a date with either Northampton Saints or Saracens at Sandy Park a week later.
Having met on 11 previous occasions since 2010, the Chiefs have yet to taste victory against their nearest and dearest in any competitive first-team...
Devon and Cornwall’s Police and Crime Commissioner Tony Hogg will today (Wednesday 5 March) sit down with major supermarkets and retailers to discuss the availability of cheap alcohol and the impact it has on crime and disorder. Partly due to the rise in cheap supermarket deals, alcohol is now 45% more affordable than it was in the 1980s, which experts say has lead to a major change in how people drink socially- most notably through the relatively new practice of ‘pre-drinking’ or ‘pre-loading’.
The growing prevelence of 'pre-loading', the practice of drinking heavily before...
A Devon-wide project which hopes to save the NHS time and money while ensuring patient safety has been shortlisted for a national award The scheme simplifies the process under which trained staff such as nurses or pharmacists can give medicines or vaccinations without the need for a GP prescription.
Until now, there have been a whole range of different processes (known as Patient Group Directions) across Devon – 17 for vaccinations alone. But these have been replaced by a single working framework for clinicians, pharmacists and NHS managers to use when writing these documents....
Fire services in the south west have joined together to identify the seven fatal factors that link most home fire deaths in the region. The report has been compiled using research data from a total of 88 deaths from 2008 to 2013.
The results show that there are seven common factors in most house fires resulting in death
The seven most common linking factors include: living alone, poor mental health and limited mobility as well as smoking, alcohol, poor housekeeping and use of both prescription or illegal drugs. Station Manager Andy Justice, Fire Investigation Manager for...
Despite the recent storms Seaton is going from strength to strength with the prospect of some very exciting initiatives coming to fruition over the coming months. The overriding message from all the organisations involved in the regeneration of the town in their meeting this week was that Seaton is very much open for business and looking forward to a busy year ahead.
The Seaton Regeneration Programme Board heard positive updates from a number of projects including Seaton Jurassic, the new visitor centre; the Town Development Team; Seaton workshops; and the Axe Wetlands.
The Exeter office of Brewin Dolphin, one of the UK’s largest independently-owned private client wealth managers, has expanded significantly in the last two years bringing in two new trainee investment managers; Kelly Harkins and James Osborne. Both are looking to develop their careers in Exeter and are keen to boost the development of the Exeter office.
Kelly (24) passed the second of three Masters in Wealth Management papers, Portfolio Construction Theory, while James (25) passed the Private Client Advice paper to move onto the second. Both Kelly and James were awarded a merit,...
