The COVID-19 pandemic has brought with it an abundance of emotion relating to threat, loss, uncertainty and anxiety. These emotions heavily affect the ways in which we make decisions. It’s widely recognised that emotions such as fear, threat and anxiety even influence the way we vote. The pandemic served asContinue Reading
Exmouth’s Manor Lodge Residential Home recently donated £1,000 to the local lifesavers in lieu of their annual Garden Party fundraiser, cancelled due to the Coronavirus restrictions. The well respected residential home, owned and managed by Ray and Gina Lovegrove, are stalwart supporters of Exmouth RNLI and, until the recent CoronavirusContinue Reading
The Taliban is typically portrayed as a group of men with beards and turbans, driven by Islamic fundamentalist ideology and responsible for widespread violence. But to understand the group that is poised to return to power in Afghanistan, and what we might expect from its rule, we need a muchContinue Reading
Cornwall-based Konfidence is proud to announce a new partnership with RNLI (Royal National Lifeboat Institution) in support of the charity’s children’s beach and water safety awareness programmes this summer. Andrew Regan, the founder of Konfidence says: “We are extremely proud to be partnering with RNLI, they are a national institution,Continue Reading
Olympism, the 19th-century philosophy of the modern Olympic Games, can be summed up as making the world better through sport. At its heart lie three values: excellence, friendship and respect. While encouraging people to be the best they can be is an obvious feature, friendship is touted as “unique” toContinue Reading
From pandemic to scamdemic. HM Treasury, CC BY-SA In the early days of the pandemic, UK chancellor Rishi Sunak announced business-loan schemes as part of the government’s suite of measures to keep businesses on their feet. This offered businesses the chance to borrow tens and sometimes hundreds of thousands ofContinue Reading
China’s vaccine-development system has been busy during the pandemic. Two Chinese vaccines are now being used around the world: the Sinopharm vaccine and the CoronaVac vaccine. The latter, developed by the Sinovac Biotech company, is the latest COVID-19 vaccine to be authorised for emergency use by the World Health OrganizationContinue Reading
Bluebird Care Exeter, Exmouth, North, East and West Devon have increased the wages of their Care Assistants by up to 11% as they recruit additional team members following their expansion into new areas of the region. Over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic, the homecare provider, Bluebird Care ‘NEW’ Devon,Continue Reading
A local company has been awarded a licence to establish a new DAB digital radio transmitter network for Exeter. ExeDAB, set up by Devon’s commercial station Radio Exe in conjunction with Exeter’s community radio station Phonic and Torbay’s community station Riviera FM, faced competition from a company based in GreaterContinue Reading
Spinal muscula atrophy causes muscle wasting and loss of control, usually starting in infancy. Orthopedia/Codman Group, CC BY-NC-SA Babies born with the rare, inherited motor neuron disease spinal muscular atrophy are, without treatment, unlikely to reach their second birthday. When, as a researcher in the 1990s, I became aware ofContinue Reading