By Lindsay Lucas, CEO of Exeter-based data and software specialist, Software Solved
The UK technology industry is growing at a rapid rate and globally recognised for its pioneering innovations in science, technology, engineering, mathematics and medicine (STEMM). According to Tech Nation’s 2021 Scale Ratio Report , Exeter was a key tech hub to watch in 2021, along with Belfast and Dundee. The scale indicates the areas in the UK which have the highest potential for growth.
The region has become a hub for tech excellence, turning over £2.4 billion annually, housing big...
As part of a green initiative to reduce carbon emissions, Propiteer Hotels is installing solar panels at Hampton by Hilton Exeter Airport.
Propiteer Hotels owns and manages Hampton by Hilton Exeter Airport and is investing £160,000 to install the latest solar Photovoltaic technology onto the roof of the Exeter hotel.
The 164Wp solar panels will deliver up to 20% of the hotel’s electricity consumption, eliminating 77,000kg of CO2 emissions annually; equating to two million tonnes over the 25-year life of the technology.
A new plant-based lunchtime cafe offering a seasonal menu of globally-inspired dishes, has opened its doors to the public at Exeter Central Station.
Daily Bowl is a social enterprise concept conceived by a group of passionate individuals, brought together by husband and wife team Herman Castaneda and Annie Murdock, who saw a gap in the market for healthy, convenient but most of all, sustainable food, that supports the region’s local producers in the process.
Annie said: “The south west is filled with incredible farmers and suppliers, many of whom are practising regenerative...
Citizens of Exeter can help create a unique new digital map of the city containing their special memories.
Experts want help from Exonians to put together the new document at an event this Saturday.
The aim is to chart the places that have personal meaning to the people who live in, work in or visit the city.
The free event, held as part of the Being Human Festival, is organised by staff from the University of Exeter’s Special Collections department and the Devon and Exeter Institution.
It will be held at the Royal Devon and Exeter Institution on...
A University of Exeter researcher has been named among the winners of the 2022 Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) prizes.
The ESRC prizes reward social scientists whose work has made a social and economic difference at a local, national and international level.
Now in its 10th year, 60 prizes were awarded to those in the following categories: Outstanding Impact in Business and Enterprise, Early Career, International, Public Policy, Society and the John Hills Impact Prize 2022.
Receiving an award in the ‘Early Career’ category, Dr Buchan’s main research...
Veterans With Dogs, an assistance dog program dedicated to assisting British Armed Forces veterans with service-related mental health conditions, is pleased to announce that it achieved accreditation by Assistance Dogs International (ADI). ADI is the leading authority in the Assistance Dogs industry. It establishes and promotes standards of excellence in all areas of assistance dog acquisition, training and partnership.
Veterans With Dogs trains and provides assistance dogs for current and former members of the British Armed Forces with service-related mental health conditions...
One of the area’s best loved museums is putting out a special call - a telephone call, that is.
For Topsham Museum, which is run by 200 volunteers in and around the Devon town, is about to take control of a classic red telephone box.
It will host special displays changing every two months bringing history into the centre of the town, and drawing people to the Museum proper which is located a few hundred yards away on Topsham’s historic Strand.
The box was decommissioned by BT earlier this year and was seized upon by the Museum as an ideal outpost. The shift of...
Lympstone Manor, the acclaimed luxury country house hotel on the banks of the Exe Estuary in East Devon, has once again been awarded 5 AA Rosettes for the fourth consecutive year.
The AA first started rating restaurants in 1955 and ever since has remained one of the most well respected and comprensive guides in the UK.
The AA describes its highest award as “The pinnacle, where cooking compares with the best in the world. These restaurants have highly individual voices, exhibit breathtaking culinary skills, and set standards to which others aspire, yet few achieve.”...
Westbank Community Health and Care, based in Exminster, has opened its doors to local people as part of a new initiative to provide a warm and welcoming space to those challenged by the continual rise in the cost of living.
Mindful that many members of the local community are struggling as a result of the recent hike in their household bills, the charity has launched its Warmwell at Westbank initiative at its premises near Exeter.
The former Seedlings Cafe has been transformed into a comfortable, cosy space with a lounge and dining area where people can drop in for...
On the evening of Friday November 11, Exeter City Council’s Royal Albert Memorial Museum and Art Gallery (RAMM) will feature the University’s research and teaching methods at RAMM Lates – an interactive evening event revolving around the exhibition ‘ A Picture of Health: Exeter’s Medical History ’, which examines health and wellbeing in Exeter from the 18th century to present day.
The exhibition explores several areas such as smallpox, bodysnatching surgeons, 'the Blue Death,' birth, the art of nursing, medical innovation, and the Exeter Hip, which has been fitted in more than...
