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Westerleigh Group’s crematoria are inviting anyone who is missing a father or father figure, including parents bereaved of a child, to visit to honour their loved ones for Father’s Day.
For the fifth time running a team of dedicated colleagues at specialist dementia care home Butterfly Lodge in Plymouth have had their accreditation renewed in recognition of the excellence of their end-of-life (EOL) care in accordance with St Luke’s Hospice Six Steps + programme.
When singer Emma Louise Richards first sang for residents at Holsworthy’s Deer Park Nursing Home they were so enthused by her music they made the staff promise to have her back again, and now she’s a firm favourite.
Staff at Butterfly Lodge in Plymouth are celebrating the news that they have been awarded the highest possible score by carehome.co.uk for the care they provide, due to the very positive feedback submitted to the care sector’s industry-leading website by residents’ families.
The University of Exeter and the Eden Project have extended their long-standing partnership with a new strategic agreement focused on tackling the planetary emergency.
From being a presenter on CBBC to climbing Mount Kilimanjaro as an expedition doctor, Dr Daniel Olaiya has had a varied career since graduating in Medicine from the University of Exeter.
An international collaboration led by the University of Exeter has been awarded £4.5 million to help improve understanding of fungal diseases that kill 2.5 million people each year.
A group of Key Stage Two children from St Budeaux’s Marine Academy spent a fun hour playing games and chatting with their elderly neighbours at Butterfly Lodge nursing home.
Volunteers gathered at Wistman’s Wood National Nature Reserve last week to help plant a further 800 trees, as part of efforts to extend one of the South West’s last remaining fragments of temperate rainforest. This follows the planting of 450 saplings at the site in March 2025.
The British Book Awards 2026 Independent Bookshop of the Year Award, sponsored by book wholesaler Gardners, celebrates stores that are at the centre of local communities, bringing passion and knowledge to the shop floor.
Residents at Deer Park Nursing Home in Holsworthy, Devon, really entered into the spirit of the day when they held their inaugural pancake race on Shrove Tuesday.
Council Leaders and Directors of Public Health from every local authority in the South West have united to demand the immediate passage of the Tobacco and Vapes Bill.
The University of Exeter will celebrate a decade of delivering degree apprenticeships when it hosts a series of workshops, information sessions and podcasts during National Apprenticeship this week.
Ripple Effects takes place at Exeter’s Barnfield Theatre on Tuesday 10 February and is produced by artist and senior lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of Exeter, Ellen Wiles, in partnership with the Northcott Theatre.
