The South West Built Environment Awards is to take place for the 9th year running on Friday 20th May 2016. In the form of a high-profile dinner, the evening will serve as an opportunity for your achievements and projects to be applauded alongside the best in the region.
More than 450 leaders and innovators from across the construction sector will gather at the Bristol Marriott Hotel...
A primary school teacher and Plymouth University graduate has created a new app designed to improve children’s reading skills through interactive gaming.
Fonics, created by Sophie Cooper, is designed for three to six-year-olds and uses games as a means to teach basic language skills.
She believes it can be a valuable resource for teachers and students, but also enable parents...
In January, the most depressing month of the year, researchers are urging people to take up free therapy courses in a bid to help them find a definitive answer to what works best in online treatment for depression.
It has long been known that online cognitive-behavioural therapy (CBT) can be effective in treating depression – but scientists do not know which aspects work best. Now...
Devon and Cornwall’s Police and Crime Commissioner is ring fencing up to £250,000 for the Chief Constable to make immediate improvements to the 101 non emergency phone line.
The commitment comes as Tony Hogg publishes phase two of his office’s ongoing review into the 101 service, a report which also assesses the force’s progress against the initial findings from a year ago.
The Fostering Network have released figures for the number of foster carers needed in 2016: A total of 9070 fostering families are needed throughout the UK, which includes 600 families urgently needed in the South West.
Currently, over 64,000 children live with almost 55,000 foster families across the UK. Foster care provides children with a safe, secure and nurturing family...
Almost half of adults in the South West are shying away from potentially life saving conversations with their loved ones about health conditions that run in the family, according to new statistics released ahead of the British Heart Foundation’s (BHF) Wear It Beat It campaign to get the nation wearing red to fight heart disease on Friday 5th February.
People have evolved to have subconscious urges to over-eat, and limited ability to avoid becoming obese, especially in winter, a University of Exeter study has found.
There is not yet an evolutionary mechanism to help us overcome the lure of sweet, fatty and unhealthy food and avoid becoming overweight for understandable and sensible reasons, according to researchers.
Plymouth City Council’s successful Christmas tree collection scheme starts next week.
The special tree collections start on Monday 11 January and run right up until Thursday 21 January.
All people have to do is to put the trees out next to their bins or bags and a separate crew will pick it up on the day their rubbish and recycling is collected.
Exercise can reduce the amount and intensity of hot flushes experienced during the menopause, according to a study published this month in The Journal of Physiology.
Exercise that makes you hot, sweaty and fitter reduced the severity of hot flushes by minimising the symptoms that occur during a hot flush, such as the amount of sweating and elevations in skin, as well as blood flow in...
New Year’s Day racing on Haldon Hill is a much loved Devon tradition and hundreds of people will gather at the racecourse to enjoy the excitement and camaraderie of a day at the races.
General manager Dan Thompson said: “The atmosphere at Exeter on New Year’s Day is always fantastic with people wanting to celebrate the first day of the New Year in the fresh air against the backdrop of...
