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Independent tea company Bird & Blend Tea Co. arrives in Exeter with a tea-licious bang. The fourteenth retail store in its portfolio, the Exeter store is the fifth retail outlet opening in the last 18 months, following its launch on to the high street in 2013.

Creating at least six new jobs, those that are customer facing will be an integral part of the imaginative and magical customer journey offered in store. Bird & Blend Tea Co. create a fun, interactive in-store experience, mixing tea-based drinks including flavours as inventive as Birthday Cake and Blue Raspberry to...

What it means to be Black and British will be the focus of a wide-ranging talk by the historian and broadcaster Professor David Olusoga OBE to mark the start of Black History Month at the University of Exeter Business School next month.

The British-Nigerian historian, a Professor of Public History at the University of Manchester, is a prominent cultural commentator, Guardian columnist, and award-winning author and documentary maker.

His BBC documentary series A House through Time and the BAFTA-winning Britain’s Forgotten Slave Owners have helped Professor Olusoga become...

The M&G Garden , designed by Charlotte Harris and Hugo Bugg, has won a coveted Gold medal at RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2021. While the two designers have both won individual gold medals for Main Avenue gardens at Chelsea before, this is their first Chelsea Gold medal together.

The M&G Garden stands for the importance of beautiful and restorative green spaces in the places we need them the most - our towns and cities. The garden is imagined as a pocket park - a public space for people and wildlife to share and enjoy all the benefits of being in nature. Unusually for Chelsea...

A second round of consultation has been launched on changes to streets in the Heavitree and Whipton areas of Exeter.

More than 570 people took part in the initial consultation last year. This raised a number of key issues including the need for priority to be given to walking and cycling and to reduce the impact of vehicle traffic on a number of residential roads, including Ladysmith Road, Hamlin Lane, Sweetbrier Lane and Thornpark Rise. There were also calls for measures to improve safety on the roundabout at Sweetbrier Lane and Whipton Lane, as well as requests for electric...