Browsing through the glamorous Insta-posts, have you ever wished you could get as good a picture as theirs? Of course you have. We all have. We are a generation that’s obsessed with photographs. And why shouldn’t we be? Photos are a brilliant way to reach out, flaunt and preserve precious moments in moments in life.
While we are extremely fortunate, as we can pick a great photo editor for PC and enhance our photos whenever we want, here are a few tips that would help you capture much greater shots and keep those “likes” flooding in.
Hall & Woodhouse, the leading independent family-owned Dorset brewer, has raised £114,287 in aid of eight local air ambulance charities in the past year, including Devon Air Ambulance.
At the beginning of 2018, Hall & Woodhouse’s (H&W) team members voted to make the eight Air Ambulances their official charity partners until 2020. Through the partnership, Devon, Dorset and Somerset, Great Western, Hampshire and Isle of Wight, Kent Surrey Sussex, London, Thames Valley and Wiltshire Air Ambulance will receive support from the company.
Exeter Racecourse is one of a number of venues to have scheduled horse racing meetings cancelled following an outbreak of equine flu.
Upon discovering positive cases of the highly contagious virus in horses trained by Cheshire handler Donald McCain and Newmarket trainer Simon Crisford, the sport's governing body, the British Horseracing Authority (BHA), called a temporary halt to competition.
A six-day blanket ban meant the traditional card at Exeter on the second Sunday in February was one of 23 meetings that could not go ahead. The McCain stable had runners at the West...
If you own a device which counts the number of steps you take each day, you can team up with work colleagues and enter a Devon wide challenge!
The ‘Big Devon March’* encourages employees to get out of the office and raise heart rates a little! If becoming healthier isn’t incentive enough, there are also prizes on offer for those workplaces which lead the way in striding out across the county. Individuals can sign up alongside work colleagues and start ‘collecting’ steps! Those who achieve the highest average numbers will put their company on the leaderboard!
Do you know how your workforce feels about working for you? Are you under the impression that everything is fine because nobody has said anything to the contrary? There’s a direct link between employee satisfaction and company success. Once you find out how your employees feel, it’s guaranteed to help your business. If your employees are happy, they will be more committed and productive. How do you discover whether your employees feel satisfied working for you, or whether they wish to change specific elements? An employee satisfaction survey is an ideal way to do so, and below we’ve listed...
Bryony Buckle is astoundingly average. Her days are filled with mind numbing office work, thinking about lunch and lusting after Orson Bloom from IT. But following a dose of hormone therapy gone wrong and a well-timed bolt of lightning, Bryony gains superhero abilities and a brand-new persona: Vulvarine, saviour of womankind. Where is all the tampon tax going? Who is The Mansplainer, and what is his evil plan? Grab your tights, your spanx and your most supportive sports bra. It’s hero time.
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Last week saw Devon Air Ambulance reach yet another landmark, by attending it’s 27,000thmission.
On 11 February the service was called to help a rural patient, in an agricultural location, who had suffered chest injuries, after being crushed by a cow.
Nigel Hare, Operations Director for Devon Air Ambulance said, “Due to patient confidentiality we don’t know much about the patients we help. For our 27,000th mission we were deployed at 1531 from a 999 call and were in the air at 1534 hours. The flight to scene took just 11 minutes.”
The installation of a statue commemorating Nancy Astor, the first female MP to sit in the UK Parliament, has moved a step closer after an artist was chosen to sculpt it.
Hayley Gibbs has been announced as designer of the statue by the judging panel for the committee that ran a successful Crowdfunding campaign to raise the required money to commission it.
“I am so honoured and excited to have my design selected for this ground-breaking piece of public art,” she said.
The target of £125,000 was smashed on January 30, allowing the committee to move onto the...
Many businesses would squirm and shiver slightly at the notion of offering a free service. However, such companies aren’t so respected and beloved by the buying public. After all, delivery companies are far from bulletproof , and even they need to get that perfect balance of profit and customer satisfaction. In this sense, they’re just like any other business too.
But how can free delivery benefit a business? Can profits still be made, or is it exposing a series of crippling weaknesses in firms the world over who adopt these strategies? Well, all the naysaying isn’t necessary....
Exeter’s longest-established estate agent and one of the UK’s oldest family businesses, Force and Sons Exeter, has been taken over by lettings’ experts Cardens Residential.
Cardens Residential has taken over the lettings business of Force and Sons Exeter as it grows its offering of rental properties in the city. Staff from Force and Sons Exeter will join the team at the Cardens Residential office in Longbrook Street.
Jon Carden, managing director of Cardens Residential, said: ‘We are delighted to complete this takeover, Force and Sons Exeter has been a well-respected...
