Health & Beauty

How the Right Glasses Can Upgrade Your Everyday Style

I never really paid much attention to glasses growing up. They were just… glasses. Something you wore because you had to. I spent more time thinking about trainers or jackets than the frames sitting on my own face.

Then one day a friend pointed out that my old pair made me look...

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6 Tips to get healthy and glowing skin

It would be absolutely sensational if we could all have meticulously clean and glowing skin, however, that's not really possible. Besides numerous skincare products if you still find it hard to get luminous and healthy skin, then you need to alter a few other things. Achieving a splendid skin is utterly plausible, however, it does take time and dedication. From changing your lifestyle habits...

FoodCycle 50 Challenge launches this April

Spreading a little hap-pea-ness this spring, national food charity FoodCycle will launch its first ever challenge event on 1stApril.

Taking place across April, the FoodCycle 50 Challenge will see participants set a 30-day fitness target around the number 50 – from cycling 50 miles per week to a daily dose of 50 star jumps – to raise vital funds for vulnerable people across the...

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Why should you consider at home beauty services in 2021?

Several beauty treatments can be carried out at home, it is not always useful to go to an institute. Whether it be simple treatments that are within everyone's reach or more technical treatments that require the call of professionals, you have the possibility of staying at home!

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You don't have time to go to a hair salon? Don't worry, call a hairdresser at home to help you....

NHS in Devon working with local Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic communities to increase vaccine up-take

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...

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Inspiration from vaccination: The Devon nurse reassuring his patients in verse

Country star Dolly Parton is urging people to have a covid vaccination with an adaptation of her hit Jolene, but Dolly isn’t the only person to find artistic inspiration in the vaccine.

Nurse Chris Gibson, who works at the vaccination centre at Sherborne House in Newton Abbot, has written a poem to reassure patients.

“We see the people behind the statistics. Everybody has a...

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New shoes ‘more important’ than health checks for children heading back to school

Devon parents are being advised to make sure that their children’s health is a top priority when they return to school on 8 March.

Research by Specsavers shows that for 69% of parents, ensuring their child has new shoes is at the top of the list when sending them back to the classroom. This is followed by new uniform and PE kits (66%) and new stationary (25%).

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Devon’s ‘Let’s Walk’ Workplace Active Challenge 2021

Longing to visit far-flung destinations or just missing your favourite Devon hotspot? In a time when we are not able to physically travel around our beautiful county the Let’s Walk workplace challenge can help you get a step closer to reaching your dream location – without even leaving your home!

The fun challenge runs throughout March and is open to workplace teams of 3-10 people...

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Life-saving ‘early warning system’ device offered to eligible patients with coronavirus in Devon

People with Covid in Devon, who are over 65 or are clinically extremely vulnerable, are being encouraged to ask their GP about using a potentially life-saving device at home to check their blood oxygen levels are not getting dangerously low.

Under a new NHS scheme called Covid Oximetry at Home, eligible patients can be given a pulse oximeter – a small and simple device that measures...

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3 ways to get rid of anxiety

Anxiety is an emotional state caused by the expectation of danger or threat. Whereas fear is a basic human emotion associated with the instinct of self-preservation, and appears immediately at the moment of danger. In the normal state, the self-preservation function prompts action, but there are also moments of apathy when anxiety increases. Some people get anxious, even when they win at...

Coronavirus vaccination programme in Devon expands to next groups

Tens of thousands more people across Devon are being contacted from this week, inviting them to make an appointment for their first coronavirus vaccination, as the programme enters a new phase.

People aged 65 and over and those who are clinically vulnerable (JCVI priority groups 5 and 6), together with an expanded group of clinically extremely vulnerable people, are now in line to...

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