The Recycled Candle Company is urging people not to throw away used candles from the festive season but to recycle them instead.
With many people in the process of taking down decorations and returning their homes to a pre-Christmas state, it’s a good time to remember that used candles can be recycled rather than added to landfill.
Candles are very popular during the festivities, gracing tables, sideboards, fireplaces and shelves around the home. But once they reach the end of their useful life, they are usually put into the bin.
Great Taste Award winning drinks producer Gusto Organic will be showcasing its range of adult focused premium soft drinks at The Source Trade Show on 5thFebruary 2020, the South West’s biggest trade show for the food & drink sector.
Founded by Craig Sams, (the entrepreneur behind Green & Blacks) and Will Fugard, CEO and alchemist in chief, Gusto Organic has harnessed both European and global markets with their organic, Fairtrade and refined sugar free soft drinks. Not only possessing a raft of Great Taste Awards, the Real Cola has been voted the No.1 Ethical Cola in the UK...
People in the South West are being challenged to kick start the New Year by taking steps to support Cancer Research UK.
The charity is encouraging everybody who feels they’ve had too many mince pies or helpings of Christmas pudding to sign up now to Walk All Over Cancer and get sponsored to walk 10,000 steps every day for a month.
In the South West, almost a quarter (22 per cent) of people are getting less than 30 minutes of physical activity a week.
Alison Birkett, Cancer Research UK’s spokesperson for the South West, said: “For many of us, the start of a new year...
Five people in Exeter are celebrating the new year a little early this week as they each scooped a £1,000 cash prize thanks to their lucky postcode.
The Broadway neighbours netted the windfall when EX2 9NT was announced as a Daily Prize winner with People’s Postcode Lottery on Monday 30th December 2019.
People’s Postcode Lottery ambassador Danyl Johnson sent his well-wished to the winners. He said: “Congratulations to our winners in Exeter. I’m sure this win will make their New Year celebrations even more special.”
A minimum of 32% of ticket sales goes directly to...
Dart Freemasons Lodge have recently presented a cheque for £500 to the Dart Trekkers, a recently formed organisation in Dartmouth. It was established some 4 years ago by Terri Walker when, due to funding problems the local academy decided not to send a team to the Ten Tors Race on Dartmoor.
The group meet at Townstal Community Hall and are instructed in survival techniques including map reading, these are practiced regularly by visits to Dartmoor. Chris Tucker, the Worshipful Master of Dart Lodge said,” this is the type of group that we like to support, it creates in young people...
Doctors in Devon are providing essential advice to people across the county on how to choose the right service for them if they feel unwell over the New Year period.
Devon’s NHS leaders are asking people to do what they can to prevent themselves becoming unwell and make sensible to decisions when it comes to choosing the right NHS service if they need help.
All parts of the NHS system are very busy in Devon at this time of year.
If it’s not an emergency or life-threatening condition, help the NHS to help you by choosing the right service for your needs:
Devon’s residents are being urged to hang on to their broken possessions over the Christmas holidays so they can be fixed at what promises will be the largest repair café ever held.
The Big Fix 2020 will be held on Saturday February 15, and will see up to 109 repair cafes across the UK being held simultaneously.
The national event is being coordinated by Devon County Council and follows the success of The Big Fix last year when volunteers broke the record for the number of items repaired at a single repair café.
Both events are examples of Devon County Council’s...
Three women whose relatives were involved in the Battle of the River Plate had a chance meeting at a recent exhibition.
The ladies - pictured above - were visiting an exhibition at Exeter Guildhall to mark the 80th Anniversary of HMS Exeter's involvement in the Battle of the River Plate in the South Atlantic during the Second World War.
Whilst watching a film as part of the exhibition they got talking. They soon realised that their relatives had been involved in the Battle.
Claire Higginson (pictured left) is the great granddaughter of Charles Cloke, the leading...
Amid warnings that new cases of flu could peak over the busy Christmas period, the parents of a nine-year-old boy from Devon who died from the illness in January last year, are calling on parents to vaccinate their children.
The request follows the release of data from Public Health England (PHE), showing that GP consultations across the country for Influenza-like illness have risen in the last few weeks.
In Devon, community clinics are being scheduled for school age children, who missed their initial school appointment for a nasal flu spray. Parents who would like to book...
An active GP and professor of general practice and primary care at the University of Exeter Medical School has been honoured with an MBE in the New Year’s 2020 Honours List.
John Campbell, Professor of General Practice and Primary Care, has been awarded the honour, presented for his outstanding contributions to primary care of patients and improving GP services.
John, who is also Associate Dean for Research (Research Excellence Framework), said: “I’m extremely honoured and humbled to be receiving this award for my work in primary care. Through my work, I’m committed to the...
