The past 12 months have exacted a terrible toll on both our population and our economy – but with vaccine delivery progressing well and a roadmap to reopening now defined, thoughts are rightly turning to recovery. But let’s be clear – recovery has to be about more than regaining lost ground. Instead, we must aim higher.
If the Covid-19 pandemic has delivered one unexpected positive, it has been a chance to reassess. With so much of our traditional activity on hold, we have had an opportunity to take stock, to re-evaluate our future,...
Richard Chappell Dance is thrilled to announce a new season of multidisciplinary dance, featuring the premiere of a new full-length production, Infinite Ways Home at Exeter Northcott on 24 & 25 September and CULTVR Lab , Cardiff on 2 October ; two original dance films shot at the picturesque Cockington Court and made available to watch on YouTube and via Swindon Dance’s digital platform ; and a large-scale intergenerational participation project across Exeter. Opening the season on the 24 March is a timely filmed reimagining of the Company’s 2018 work Still Touch . The piece explores...
A new study launched by the UK’s largest online learning provider, The Skills Network, has found that significant career changes for those in the South West are most likely to happen at age 30.1, but 2 in 5 won’t go after their dream job, due to the daunting prospect of having to retrain.
The research analysed answers from 1,000 people across the UK who have made a significant career change, during their working life, and had to retrain as a result. In the South West, people are likely to make six job changes during their working career, suggesting that you don’t have to have it...
The highly infectious variant of COVID-19 discovered in Kent, which swept across the UK last year before spreading worldwide, is between 30 and 100 per cent more deadly than previous strains, new analysis has shown.
A pivotal study, by epidemiologists from the Universities of Exeter and Bristol, has shown that the SARS-CoV-2 variant, B.1.1.7, is associated with a significantly higher mortality rate amongst adults diagnosed in the community compared to previously circulating strains.
The study compared death rates among people infected with the new variant and those...
A shfords has recently been appointed to the Anaerobic Digestion and Bioresources Association (ADBA) Advisory Board. Ashfords will be represented by Partner Brian Farrell and Senior Associate Jonathan Croley, from Ashfords LLP's Commercial and IP team.
The news follows the expansion of the board from 14 to 20, in order to better reflect the different aspects of developing, building and operating anaerobic digestion (AD) projects. The members of the Board will help steer the organisation's strategic policy direction, ensuring that they are focussed on the most important issues for...
A Group of Business and Management students from the University of Exeter have started the social enterprise 'Happy Carrot', which sells environmentally conscious products with the added aim of donating their profits to the Exeter Foodbank, a charity providing emergency food packages for families in need in the Exeter area.
The group of seven students is selling reusable shopping bags shaped as fruits and vegetables during the month of March to raise money and awareness for the local charity.
Ione Hale, HR Officer for Happy Carrot, explained that the group came up with...
Thousands of new trees will be planted across the South West thanks to a cash boost from the Woodland Trust.
Both Devon and Cornwall councils will benefit from the charity’s Emergency Tree Fund that aims to make up for a current lack of investment to help cash strapped local authorities break through barriers to get more trees and woods in the ground, giving more local communities the green spaces on their doorsteps that are desperately needed, and which have shown to be so important for people during the current pandemic. In 2019 Cornwall Council declared a Climate Emergency and...
The NHS in Devon is supporting people from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic communities (BAME) to take up a potentially life-saving coronavirus vaccination when they are eligible as part of the national programme.
Like other areas of the country, take-up of the vaccination in Devon among some BAME communities is lower than in the overall population.
In Devon, early data modelling suggests people of Black and Asian ethnicity have lower take-up than White British people.
Recent engagement work led by NHS Devon Clinical Commissioning Group suggests that the reasons...
“Who doesn’t love a lockdown delivery?” Say the two female founders of a new service giving customers ethical shopping choices without the hassle
A Devon duo have launched ‘Lofty Box’ - a new sustainable subscription box which brings wellness and lifestyle products straight to your door during lockdown
The co-founders, Claudia Meller, from Crediton, and Emily Joyce, from Exeter – both 30 – launched the box during the pandemic to help emerging brands and smaller businesses reach more customers.
Each Lofty Box contains a selection of products, from healthy snacks...
Trading Standards is warning young people to be wary of fake job adverts on social media that at first glance might appear to be the answer to their financial woes.
The pandemic has hit the pockets of many financially, but none more so than young people many of which are students who rely on jobs in the tourist and hospitality sectors.
However, as a consequence of lockdown and jobs not being available, many are struggling to make ends meet.
Some fake job adverts on social media have the sole aim of harvesting personal details, which are later used to commit...
