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Speech and Language Therapists in Exeter have introduced an exciting new approach to help autistic children feel the difference.

Dawn Roberts, a Speech and Language Therapist with Virgin Care’s Devon Integrated Children’s Services, applied for ‘Feel the Difference’ funding to buy special equipment to increase the children’s level of attention and listening skills, increase social communication and improve speech and language skills. And the special equipment? A bucket filled with visually engaging toys. The new therapy approach being introduced by the Exeter and West Devon speech...

The dementia research charity BRACE and Kirby Laing Foundation have together awarded more than £190,000 to the University of Exeter Medical School to support cutting-edge genomic research to better understand the causes of dementia

Kirby Laing has provided £90,000 of funding to support a three-year PhD post in the Complex Disease Epigenetics Group within the Medical School’s world-leading research team that investigates how the way genes are activated influences disease.

Previously, the team has been involved in identifying a number of regions of the genome that are altered...

Killerton, near Exeter, has been transformed for Christmas with Wind in the Willows and Father Christmas arriving this week to begin the festive celebrations.

The recently uncovered house will be open from Saturday 25 November and will transport visitors into Kenneth Grahame’s mystical world of Toad, Ratty, Badger and Mole as the story of Wind in the Willows is told.

The four friend’s adventure will take place throughout the house, with the rooms in the Georgian mansion transformed into scenes from this much-loved tale of camaraderie and adventure. The magic will continue...

Since staff voted Macmillan Cancer Support as their first charity partner in January 2016, Inchcape Retail has raised an incredible £110,000 and counting. Over the last 18 months employees have taken part in a number of key fundraising activities including their latest activity – The Colla-bear-ator Challenge, which involved the relay of an Inchcape teddy bear from Inchcape’s most northerly site in Sunderland to Inchcape’s most southerly site in Exeter. Along the way, each site was asked to write a note for the next and give the bear a name, with the winning name being chosen on the bear’s...