There were some extra special visitors to Bramble Ward at the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital this week.
Exeter City Football Club’s first-team players took time out of their busy training schedule to visit children and teenagers on the ward – some of whom will be spending the festive period in hospital.
The players delivered dozens of bears, toys, calendars, footballs and signed merchandise to the young patients.
The players who visited the ward were manager Matt Taylor, assistant manager Eric Kinder, Pierce Sweeney, Jake Taylor, Lee Holmes, Jayden Stockley, Dean...
A well designed office usually balances perfectly on that fine line between efficiency and comfort. An overly efficient office can come off as cold and remind you too much of an office cubicle, while something too comfortable practically ensures you'll be doing everything but working while in your office. Here are three tips for creating a well balanced office in a small space.
Use Your Wall Space
When you are dealing with a smaller space, you should take advantage of all of the spaces you have available, including wall space. Since you don't want to over clutter the floor...
Last Thursday, the School Council from Exeter Deaf Academy presented at Devon County Hall Council Chambers. The deaf students aged between 15-16 years old stood up and delivered a confident presentation to the Chamber in British Sign Language (BSL), articulating the need for regional TV news programmes to be accessible for all, and explained their goal was for the Southwest’s regional TV broadcasters to lead the way for the rest of the UK.
Currently in the UK, live regional TV news programmes do not have live British Sign Language interpretation. Subtitles and closed captioning don...
Exeter’s four-woman ‘Row For The Ocean’ team, who set off yesterday (Wednesday, December 12th) in the Talisker Whisky Atlantic Challenge, is delighted to announce a new sponsor whose tagline is ‘Let’s discover the world’. Online travel agent Travel Up has become the team’s Platinum Partner for the race, pledging £10,000 in funding.
Row For The Ocean set off from La Gomera in the Canaries to row 3,000 miles across the Atlantic with a mission to raise awareness of the ocean plastics crisis. Kirsty Barker, Rosalind Holsgrove-West, Kate Salmon, and Laura Try want to raise as much money...
Within the UK, each area has its own unique problems and challenges and Exeter is certainly no different. Businesses within the town face numerous challenges in order to become successful. While work has started on improving some of the major issues in the town, there is still a long way to go to fully resolve certain problems.
Here, we’ll look at what challenge’s businesses within the town centre face in today’s economic climate.
Rising overheads
In recent years, both consumers and businesses have seen a significant increase in the cost of living and operating....
Rob Baxter says his Exeter Chiefs side must use the disappointment of their European campaign so far to make them a better side moving forward.
Hopes were high at the start of the season that the Devonians would really attack their rivals in this season’s Heineken Champions Cup. However, that has not proved the case and after three rounds the Chiefs are still without a win and sat bottom of Pool Two.
An opening round draw with Munster at Sandy Park has since been followed with defeats to Castres and Gloucester, the latter coming just last Saturday when the Cherry &...
This is a fantastic event supporting a wonderful local charity. Hospiscare cares for local people across Exeter, Mid and East Devon living with a terminal illness and offers much needed support to their friends and family. The care provided by Hospiscare is free of charge and available 24 hours a day, every day.
Starting and finishing from The Double Locks pub, participants will walk a new linear route along the picturesque Exe Valley Way and River Exe to the Millers Crossing Bridge and back, with live music and refreshments along the way.
Sole traders, micro businesses, and small and medium size enterprises (SMEs) in Devon, Somerset, Plymouth and Torbay are being reminded that they can still apply for 12 hours of fully-funded business support.
The Heart of the South West Growth Support Programme, overseen by Devon County Council, provides access to one-to-one business support and advice in an array of areas, including digital marketing. The programme is receiving up to £904,945 of funding from the England European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) for companies in the Heart of the South West area.
Whether you are trying to sell an old property for some fast cash or just selling your current home before you move onto something better, finding good property deals can be tricky, especially if you need the sale to go fast. While an exact timeline is impossible to specify without knowing all the parameters involved, here are a few simple tips for selling a house or even any other property, as fast as possible.
Increasing Kerb Appeal
It is often said that the first impression is the last impression and whether that is true or not, there is no doubt that the first...
Leading high-tech companies, based at Plymouth Science Park, are celebrating following the recognition of their ongoing successes at the Western Morning News Business Awards.
Staff at Pixalytics, Sponge UK, Microtest and Kovia were among the firms singled out for their excellence in a number of key areas.
Microtest is delighted to have been named a Finalist in the WMN Business Awards 2018. It’s one of only four IT suppliers contracted to provide clinical systems to GP surgeries in the NHS in England.
The company has recently won a contract to supply clinical systems...
