EXPERTS at a Devon domiciliary care company are offering people in the county advice on avoiding the onset of dementia this month (June 2019).
Guardian Homecare, which provides home care in Exeter and Torbay, is sharing its tips after Alzheimer’s Research UK revealed one percent of UK adults are unable to name known risk factors for dementia.
Guardian Homecare Manager for Devon, Catherine Porter said: “Risk factors for dementia include heavy drinking, smoking, high blood pressure, depression and diabetes and it is worrying that only 1% of adults realise that these can all...
South West Communications Group is backing the Devon Sports Awards for the 6th year in a row as the main sponsor.
Organised by Active Devon, The Exeter Chiefs Foundation and in partnership with Exeter College, the ceremony is an opportunity to celebrate the success of local community clubs, individuals, coaches and volunteers.
There are 31 finalists for 10 categories at the Devon Sports Awards due to be held on Thursday 11 July at Sandy Park.
swcomms is also sponsoring the Devon Coach of the Year and Devon Club of the Year.
One of the last surviving D-Day veterans will take part in Armed Forces Day in Exeter tomorrow (Saturday 22 June).
Ninety-six-year-old Bob Reeves will be a VIP guest at the event in the city centre. He will watch from outside Exeter's historic Guildhall as veterans and cadets march down Exeter High Street.
Born and brought up in Exeter, Bob has lived all his life in the city apart from 18 months when he lived in a village just outside.
He spent a lot of his childhood down at the Quay where he learnt to swim in the river, before leaving school at the age of 14 and...
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Ottery St Mary coffee shop Tickety-Boo is offering a free cream tea to customers for one week only.
The offer is in support of Exeter Leukemia Fund’s ELF Cream Tea which is held throughout June each year.
Tickety-Boo head chef Trystan Bridgman said: “Customers can have a traditional cream tea with a scone, jam and cream plus a cuppa for free between Tuesday June 25 and Sunday June 30.
“However, we are asking customers to make a donation to ELF when they order their cream tea, and we hope they will dig deep. We also ask customers to be mindful of the ‘cream first’...
A riot of colour has broken out across the city, with wild flowers coming into bloom as part of the Wild City Project.
The initiative – a collaboration between the City Council and Devon Wildlife Trust – is now in its fourth year and still pleasing locals and visitors alike.
Wild flower seed has been sown alongside roadsides, in parks, on roundabout and in key gateways to the city. Many of the sites now self-generate, meaning they don’t need to be sown every year.
Not only do the impressive displays of colour look beautiful to the eye, they attract a wide variety of...
Animal experts at Paignton Zoo have been battling around the clock to save a sick primate.
Keepers, vets and vet nurses responded swiftly when female orang utan Gambira was taken ill suddenly and sat with her long into the night after emergency surgery.
They found she had an infection of her air sac (a large pouch in the throat, thought to be used for vocalisation and connected to the respiratory system). The condition is known as air saccultis, and can be fatal. The team gave her a general anaesthetic and operated, making holes in the wall of her throat sac to drain off...
To coincide with national Volunteers Week, the Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Foundation Trust (RD&E) is today calling for interested members of the public to give some of their time to support the NHS locally by putting their names forward to be elected as a Governor.
Governors play a vitally important role within the RD&E, providing a direct connection between the Trust, the community it serves and its partners. Existing RD&E Governors have a wide variety of experiences and backgrounds but they share a real passion for helping to shape local health services in a way that...
Overnight road closures will be needed on the A361 near Tiverton next week to carry out urgent structural repairs on the River Exe Viaduct.
An expansion joint at the eastern end of the viaduct, near Bolham roundabout, is failing and needs to be replaced as soon as possible.
The A361 will be closed overnight between Bolham and Ashmill for two nights on Wednesday 26 June and Thursday 27 June from 7pm to 7am for the repairs to be carried out. If the work is not completed in two evenings, an overnight closure is also provisionally booked for the evening of Friday 28 June....
Emmy award-winning writer Patrick Gale, leading contemporary novelist Amanda Craig and Raymond Antrobus, winner of the Ted Hughes award, all appear in Exeter as part of an incredible line-up of writers for Quay Words 2019 at Exeter Custom House this summer.
Launching on National Writing Day, 26th June, Quay Words is a six-week pilot programme of words and stories programmed by Literature Works on behalf of the Exeter Canal and Quay Trust. It is part of an initiative to explore the potential of Exeter Custom House, a Grade 1 listed building on Exeter’squayside, as a hub for...
