With summer holidays on the horizon, you can be forgiven for spending most of your free time loading up on healthy salads, or hitting the gym, but are you seeing the results from all your efforts? An often-overlooked area when it comes to keeping in shape is achieving healthy sleep. Here, Sealy’s sleep expert, Neil Robinson, advises on why sleep plays such an important role when it comes to looking and feeling your best.
Burning fat while sleeping?
Believe it or not, a great deal of efficient fat can be burnt when sleeping, and quality rest is equally as beneficial for...
Dartmoor artist Shirley Kirkcaldy is celebrating after her work has been selected to be represented by a new Devon gallery.
The Tidal Gallery, which opens at Victoria Place, The Promenade, Kingsbridge, on July 22 will be exhibiting eight of Shirley’s latest landscapes and seascapes.
“It is pleasing that galleries are increasingly showing interest in my work,” says Shirley, who was recently featured artist in Dartmoor and Devon Life magazines.
Shirley’s work is informed by what she experiences when in the landscape – an intuitive response to a place and time. Working...
BBC Strictly Come Dancing’s favourite Italian, two-time finalist AND Guinness World Record holder, Giovanni Pernice, has been confirmed to return to the hit show for what will be his 4th season.
Sicilian born Pernice says he is a “Happy, happy boy...I can’t wait to start again!” when talking about reprising his role on the ever popular show.
Giovanni, who has made the final of Strictly Come Dancing twice - with Georgia May Foote in 2015, and most recently with Debbie McGee in 2017 - is hoping that this year is his time to lift the coveted glitter ball trophy, and as the...
The UK’s first large law firm to become employee-owned, Stephens Scown LLP, has appointed two new Exeter-based sector heads. Toby Pool, a partner in the firm’s real estate team becomes head of leisure and tourism, while Thomas Chartres-Moore an associate in the firm’s intellectual property team takes on the role of head of food and drink. Tom is a non-executive director of the not-for-profit organisation Food and Drink Devon. Robert Camp, Stephens Scown’s managing partner said: “Our job is to help our clients to solve problems and seize opportunities. But first we need to understand their...
Funding bid proposals to improve visitor facilities at Stover Country Park are to go on show this weekend (Saturday 30 June and Sunday 1 July).
Devon County Council is preparing to apply to the Heritage Lottery Fund to help restore the park’s historic heritage and improve visitor facilities over the next five years.
Key elements of the project include restoring Stover Lake to a healthy water body by removing contaminated silt, restoring two Grade Two listed buildings, creating new footpaths and walking routes for visitors and the possible provision of a café.
Following a recent boating accident in Teignmouth, resulting in local man Mark Prowse losing a leg.
There is to be a Benefit gig to be held at THE COVE Pub in Teignmouth on July 8th to raise funds for him..
The aim is to raise funds towards Mark having a fitted Prosthetic limb, to help get him mobile again & give him a better quality of life.. The event starts at 2.00pm with seven local live bands & artists playing throughout the day to closing.
The Experimental close the day with support from Wax Cylinder, Ethyrfield, Money Penny, Ollie Stephens, Ted Jevens...
Ottery St Mary’s Rusty Pig has been nominated in the inaugural national Eat Game Awards 2018.
The aim of these new awards is to help raise the profile of game in the British menu and bring it to the attention of British restaurant goers.
Rusty Pig has long used game as a key ingredient in its dishes, particularly wild boar from Escot Estate, pheasant from the Upton Pyne shoot and locally caught pigeon and rabbit. The restaurant works closely with Tim Maddams, author of River Cottage Handbook No 15, Game .
Restaurant owner Robin Rea and head chef Mark Russell are big...
Barratt Homes and David Wilson Homes are creating some very special new homes with a difference on the outskirts of Exeter, at Minerva.
The five star housebuilders have commissioned an ecological mitigation plan to identify and protect wildlife at the site of its latest development - which features a collection of two, three and four bedroom homes.
Matt Cowley, director at EAD Ecology, said a number of wildlife surveys were undertaken on the Minerva site prior to the development which has just opened, ensuring important habitats and species would be protected.
A true revolutionary veg nerd, Guy Singh-Watson has spent the last 30 years taking Riverford from one man and a wheelbarrow delivering homegrown organic veg to friends, to a national veg box scheme making 50,000 deliveries a week.
On Sunday 1st July, he’ll be talking about the remarkable story behind Riverford and his life in organic food and farming with presenter Kirsty Young on BBC Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs. Guy decided to sell direct to customers through the now iconic Riverford veg box after being poorly treated by unscrupulous supermarket buyers and wholesalers in the...
The University of Exeter can be a great choice for high school graduates who want to pursue a degree. The university has more than 22,500 students across campuses, and you can be one of them. If you were accepted and you want to learn more about the University of Exeter, here are a few useful tips.
Check your mailbox as often as you can
The university will offer you plenty of tips but you have to check your emails. You will be sent important information so make sure that you read everything. It is recommended that you check your junk folder as well.
