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Princesshay has unveiled a new art installation in celebration of its work in urban bee conservation. The Princesshay Honey Flow Light Box has been created by Exeter-based artist Amy Shelton and features pressed samples of flowering plants and trees favoured by bees. The illuminated artwork has been installed below the Princesshay Rooftop Garden and Apiary in Bampfylde Lane, opposite Princesshay’s customer service office.

Local artist Amy Shelton, said: "The Princesshay Honey Flow light box was made especially to illuminate the flowering plants and trees that sustain the cities...

On Sunday 18th September the Fore Street Collective hosted their very first Fore Street Flea Market, an event that saw the street closed to traffic to make way for a wonderful array of stalls and activity.

The local West Quarter traders took their chance to spread their wares on to the street, with many of the shops opening additional Sunday hours to capture the swarms of regular and new customers exploring the area. Long standing Fore Street favourite The Real McCoy specially hosted one of their legendary £1 yard sales, filling the McCoy’s arcade with hoards of happy bargain...

The first week of October will see Quakers in Exeter and around the country sharing their ideas on building a better world.

With stalls in the High St on Saturday 1st and Saturday 8th, and Quakers on Radio Devon’s Pause for Thought every morning between 6am and 7am, you’ll be hearing much more from Quakers than you’re used to. Quakers (also known as the Society of Friends) are a religious group rooted in non-conformist Protestantism, starting in the middle of the seventeenth century in England. Their core principles include Peace, equality, simplicity, truth and sustainability....

Work on improvements to the A379 Sandy Park Junction in Exeter will get underway on Monday (3 October).

The existing junction, which is currently used to access Sandy Park rugby ground and David Lloyd leisure centre, has a ‘left-in, left-out’ traffic system.

The £2.5 million upgrade will create a signalised junction which will allow all traffic movements – including right turns in and out of the site in order to improve access to planned employment and housing development in the Newcourt area of the city.

The scheme will stop the need for traffic effectively making...