Housing Association’s Gift to Support Digital Access for Community
Housing Association LiveWest has donated thirty laptops to Queen Elizabeth’s School in Crediton.
Rupert Poole, Principal of Queen Elizabeth’s School, said: “QE is very grateful for the generous donation of laptops from LiveWest and it will help our students immensely.
Clearly everyone has been through a challenging year, a year where the importance of developing students’ IT skills and ensuring good internet access has been highlighted.
This donation will not only ensure greater online access for our...
A new survey from ATS Euromaster has revealed how in-the-know British motorists are regarding driving etiquette.
The study polled 2,000 motorists in the UK to find out whether age, gender and location play a role in their driving knowledge.
55-64s have the best driving etiquette
According to the survey conducted in February 2021, younger generation drivers are the most likely to answer incorrectly when asked basic driving knowledge questions.
Nearly half of motorists aged 18-44 think splashing a pedestrian is acceptable, while a third of the same age group think...
Six new potentially lifesaving throw line boards and reach poles have been installed at locations around Exeter Quay with the aim to reduce drownings around the area.
Between 2015 and 2019, confirmed fatality statistics show that ten lives have been lost on Exeter's waterways.
Nationally, around half of people who drown had no intention of being in water – they may have been walking, running, or jump in the water after their dog. There is also an increased likelihood after drinking alcohol. According to the latest national data, double the number of people drowned after...
Road verges cover 1.2% of land in Great Britain – an area the size of Dorset – and could be managed to help wildlife, new research shows .
University of Exeter researchers used Google Earth and Google Street View to estimate that verges account for 2,579 km2 (almost 1,000 square miles) of land.
About 27% of these verges are frequently mown, 41% is wilder grassland, 19% is woodland and the rest is scrub.
There are "significant opportunities" to improve verges by reducing mowing and planting trees, the researchers say.
Virtual reality devices at heritage sites in France and the UK have been adapted so tourists can ‘visit’ an attraction in lockdown – and in the case of Exeter Cathedral even listen to the choir sing.
The VISTA AR project, led by the University of Exeter Business School and part of the EU’s Interreg France (Channel) England programme, has worked closely with Exeter Cathedral, Château de Fougères in Brittany and others to develop digital devices that create new kinds of visitor experiences using augmented and virtual reality.
Second doses of the Covid-19 vaccination are being brought forward for people aged over 50, frontline health and social care workers and people who are in at-risk groups (cohorts 1-9) . This follows the government announcement last week reducing the time between doses for those groups from 12 to around 8 weeks. This is to ensure people across the UK have the strongest possible protection from the virus at an earlier opportunity.
People in cohorts 1-9, who have an appointment before 25 May, should attend as planned.
Those with later appointments will be contacted to make...
Salvage Hunters, the well-loved and most watched Quest TV and Discovery Network show, is on the hunt for new locations in Devon to feature in the upcoming series.
We follow decorative antiques expert Drew Pritchard as he travels around various locations in the UK and abroad on his quest to find and buy unusual objects with an interesting history.
Drew really visits everywhere - beautiful estates, old family businesses, barns and attic’s stuffed full of unwanted things, museums, factories, collectors and iconic religious sites buying all sorts along the way – from...
CHILDREN in Exeter are being called to pen a short poem about hunger and what it means to them, as part of a national competition run by anti-poverty charity the Trussell Trust, which supports a network of food banks across the UK.
The charity is calling on youngsters, aged nine and under, to create and draw a hungry character and tell its story in the form of a short poem – as part of its Bye Bye Hunger competition.
The top twenty entries will be published in a poetry book and one star prize winner will see their character brought to life in the Trussell Trust campaign...
Plans for Cats Protection’s trailblazing adoption centre in Exeter have been revealed and given the green light to proceed this summer, featuring pioneering facilities for cats, staff and visitors, including an enrichment garden.
The first building works, which will see a new adoption centre replace the feline welfare charity’s existing Exeter Axhayes Adoption Centre at Clyst Honiton, are scheduled to begin by mid-June.
Stockport architects Bowker-Sadler have designed a bespoke centre on the current site, taking inspiration from historical local architectural forms...
The huge increase in demand for pets during the pandemic hasn’t helped one lonely dog in Devon.
Connor, a three-year-old greyhound currently in the care of dog rescue charity Forever Hounds Trust, has been waiting for the right forever home for more than a year. While there have been lots of home offers for other dogs at the charity’s Centre for Homing and Welfare, which is based near Cullompton in Devon and opened in December last year, Connor has not been one of the lucky ones chosen for a home of his own.
Connor has some special requirements of his adopters, which is...
