Education

Exeter School sixth formers have successfully launched a camera into space where it took hundreds of photos of earth from 82,000ft.

The camera was carried by helium balloon into the stratosphere in a joint project between the School's Physics Department, Electronics Department and Crossing Club on Monday 30 June.

Funded by the Exeter School Parents' Association, the aim of the Exeter School Space Photo Project was, quite simply to take photos from the edge of space.

Dr Houghton, Head of Electronics, explained: "Planning started last September when pupils researched...

The National Trust team at Killerton recently worked with four local schools as part of the ‘First World War: then and now’ programme to put on a series of community performance in the house and grounds of the National Trust estate.

Pupils from Broadclyst Community Primary School, Pinhoe CofE Primary school, Silverton CofE Primary school and the Duchy School, Bradninch visited village war memorials and talked to their own families about their First World War past. Helped by National Trust staff, they used what they’d learnt to produce a play which explored the first three weeks of...

Age UK Exeter is encouraging older people interested in local history to attend a ‘pop-up’ events that they are running in and around Exeter, dates can be found on our website www.ageuk.org.uk/exeter/

The events taking place will see Age UK Exeter staff and volunteers use technology, such as tablets, to explore local history and they need locals to help contribute.

The sessions, funded by Google, will give people the opportunity to explore local history, reminisce about songs, films, books, shows or images and learn more about technology in the process.

For those...

Thousands of St John’s Gospels – replicas of the gospel given to all troops as they were sent off to fight in the First World War – are to be given to Devon’s school children as part of centenary commemorations.

The Gospel, complete with some hymns and paintings, was designed to fit in soldier’s top pocket, and to provide comfort and hope in the trenches.

Some 43 million were given away during the war by SGM LIfewords and it has produced the replica gospel to mark this year’s anniversary. In partnership with the mission project Hope 2014, 11,000 copies have been given to...