An incredibly brave 11-year-old girl has raised an impressive £10,000 for the RD&E Spinal Unit, just two years after undergoing major spinal surgery.
At just six-years-old Rhiannon Hewitt, from Camelford, Cornwall, was doing handstands with her sister when her grandmother noticed that Rhiannon’s back looked out of shape. An x-ray found that Rhiannon was suffering with a 60 degree curve of the spine, known as Scoliosis. From then on, to try and reduce the risk of the curve increasing, Rhiannon wore a brace for three years, 23 hours a day.
At its core, WebGL is a nifty interface for JavaScript that allows the browsers of today to make use of 3D graphics without the need for extra plugins. For those who might not necessarily be experienced in the art of programming and web design, it might not be that big a deal. However, those who are well aware of the need for plugins when it comes to rendering graphics in a browser, WebGL comes as something of a revelation. Here are just a few reasons why WebGL is much more essential than you might think!
When plugins were the standard solution, so too were security issues...
The date of this years’ Exeter Chiefs Foundation Smile A Mile Charity Walk has been confirmed as Saturday, 21st September 2019.
Come and join us in walking 10 miles in aid of the Foundation in a circular route which starts and finishes at Sandy Park, and takes in a flat, scenic route through the River Exe Valley.
The event will combine both the fundraising walk with watching the Exeter Chiefs V Bath Rugby Premiership Cup Game at Sandy Park.
Act Fast and sign up before the 2nd September to ensure you get your T-shirt for taking part!
Our 8 part comedy workshop, ‘An introduction to stand-up comedy’ will guide you through your first steps in the stand-up comedy world.
The workshop will help to develop and blend together the unique material, style and persona of each participant as they produce a short and tight set of stand-up comedy. Over the eight sessions you will explore a range of essential comedic performance skills and techniques and build confidence and self-awareness within the performance space.
This eight part workshop runs 2 hours each week on Wednesday evenings between 7.30pm to 9.30pm;...
Paramedics at South Western Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust (SWASFT) are reminding people to use the service wisely this August bank holiday as the ambulance service is expected to be very busy.
The Trust is expecting more than 10,690 incidents over the bank holiday four-day weekend, and with the sunny weather predicted the ambulance service will be kept busy with visitors to the region.
Please help our staff and volunteers to help those most in need by only calling 999 in a life-threatening emergency and #ChooseWell.
A University of Exeter student is already making a big impact in the film industry as the UK’s youngest feature film director, with an acclaimed film critic labelling him as “the next Steven Spielberg.”
At 18 years-old, second year history student, Elliott Hasler, is currently the UK’s youngest feature film director.
Elliott was just 16 when he released his first feature film, which he completed over three years whilst studying for his GCSEs.
As he heads into his second year of his history degree at the University of Exeter, Elliott is currently working on his...
One of the biggest industries around right now is diet and weight loss. It is thought that the overall health and wellness market in the UK was worth almost £21bn in 2018, and diet-related products contributed greatly towards this. It is easy to see why this is such a booming sector in Exeter and all over the country. All Exeter residents like to look their best and also stay healthy, which is why we spend so much of our hard-earned money in doing so.
Within the diet industry, many people spend their cash on diet schemes. These schemes will help Exeter-based dieters to lose weight...
Exeter College’s vocational students joined together to celebrate their achievements in a garden party held at the college’s Hele Road campus.
Vocational and technical qualifications offer a more practical and applied style of study and are offered by a range of awarding bodies but at Exeter College BTEC, UAL and City & Guilds are the three largest.
Many Level 3 programmes are the equivalent of up to three A Levels. Vocational & technical programs tend to focus on continuous assessment rather than exams and typically provide a practical method of acquiring skills...
People walk around with more advanced technology in their pockets then was used for the moon landings!
You may not be able to reach the moon with your smartphone, but it is possible to create an award winning film like Charlotte Prodger who won the 2018 Turner Prize with her film Bridgit.
Smartphones haven’t only just been used to produce short films either, award winning director Steven Soderbergh (Ocean’s trilogy, Erin Brockovich and Traffic) shot Unsane a 98 minute feature film fully on mobile phones, launching mobile phone filmmaking on to the big screen. Unsane grossed...
