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Exeter care home residents beam with joy during unforgettable owl therapy visit

Residents at RMBI Care Co. Home Cadogan Court, in Exeter, have recently been treated to a truly memorable experience, as a very special guest paid them a visit. Supported by his animal caretaker, a beautiful three-year-old wood owl named Bill filled the Home with smiles.

Residents and staff had the chance to see Bill up close, gently stroke his chestnut-coloured feathers and learn more about this fascinating bird. The session provided a calming and engaging activity for everyone involved, with residents expressing their delight at meeting such a unique animal. The opportunity to...

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Christmas jumpers raise cash for CHAT

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Posted: Fri, 12/02/2016 - 8:45am

There were some fantastic Christmas jumpers on display at Blundell’s School, Tiverton, on 1 December – all being worn for a good cause.

Pupils and staff paid for the privilege of putting on their best festive knitwear and the money raised will go to the Churches Housing Action Team (CHAT), which gives free, impartial and confidential housing advice to those experiencing housing difficulty in Mid Devon.

Pupils at Blundell’s regularly raise more than £10,000 a year for local, national and international charities through a variety of events and activities.

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Spiritual master David Ashworth to visit Exeter

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Posted: Fri, 12/02/2016 - 8:25am

The spiritual master David Ashworth is to visit Exeter on Sat 10th Dec to deliver a Darshan at Exeter Community Centre. Darshan offers a direct experience of enlightened consciousness from someone who has attained self- realisation in their lifetime and is delivered through David looking into the eyes of each individual one by one. David has opened to the point where many consider him to be perhaps one of the first Western-born people with Guru-like abilities, having brought down a Light for the evolution of humanity.

He has delivered Darshan in London and other major European...

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Man guilty after rabbit without water found dead in hutch

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Posted: Thu, 12/01/2016 - 5:08pm

The owner of a pet rabbit who died after he was left without water has been disqualified from keeping rabbits for ten years.

Martin Saunders, 29, of Newman Road, Exeter pleaded guilty to causing unnecessary suffering to a rabbit, known as Digger, when he appeared before magistrates in Exeter on Wednesday (November 30).

He was also sentenced to 60 hours community service and ordered to pay court costs after admitting leaving the rabbit without an adequate supply of fresh water between May 29 and June 1 2016.

The black-and-white lionhead rabbit was discovered dead in...

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Queen Victoria’s Paintings at RAMM

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Posted: Thu, 12/01/2016 - 3:41pm

A new exhibition at Exeter’s Royal Albert Memorial Museum & Art Gallery (RAMM) gives a wonderful insight into the splendour of the Victorian court. Forty four watercolours from the Royal Collection depict her remarkable visit to Paris in 1855.

The historic 10-day visit was on the invitation of the Emperor Napoleon III and his wife Eugénie. The first time a reigning British monarch had visited the French capital in over 400 years, the visit ostensibly celebrated the military alliance between France and Britain against Russia in the Crimean War. It also cemented a great personal...

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Exeter Northcott announces exciting spring summer 2017 season

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Posted: Thu, 12/01/2016 - 11:24am

Exeter Northcott Theatre is delighted to announce its exciting spring/summer 2017 season. The season will see the theatre co-produce a UK national tour, the launch of the new Graduate Young Company and the return of Shakespeare in Exeter’s Rougemont Gardens.

E.Nesbit’s classic novel The Railway Children will be brought thrillingly to life in a stunning new stage production by Exeter Northcott Theatre. Complete with beautiful period costumes and ingenious designs, this new production, which will also tour the UK, promises an uplifting theatrical experience for all ages, packed with...

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RD&E Emergency Department highly commended for research impact

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Posted: Thu, 12/01/2016 - 10:28am

The Emergency Department at the Royal Devon & Exeter (Wonford) hospital was highly commended for the Health Service Journal (HSJ) Clinical Research Impact Award 2016.

The award is sponsored by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Clinical Research Network. It is presented to an NHS organisation that has gone the extra mile to embed clinical research as core business and harness the outcomes of clinical research to improve services and treatments for its patients.

The South West had three contenders out of the 11 organisations shortlisted nationally for this...

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BBC Professor makes podcast with Exeter Cathedral School

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Posted: Thu, 12/01/2016 - 10:27am

Exeter Cathedral School pupils have been joined by a celebrated History Professor to create their very own podcast. The Year 2 pupils were very excited to welcome Professor James Daybell (co-creator of ‘Histories of the Unexpected’ with the BBC’s Sam Willis), for the making of their first podcast in Exeter Cathedral's Chapter House and the opening of their exhibition, ‘A Walk Through Time.’

Inspired by the rich heritage of Exeter, the children had been learning about homes through the ages, from Neolithic to Victorian times. The exhibition was a celebration of their work and an...

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Danny Dorling's TEDxExeter talk featured on TED.com

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Posted: Thu, 12/01/2016 - 9:57am

“There are a huge number of good news stories in the world,” says Danny Dorling in his 2016 TEDxExeter talk: Imagining the world anew – redrawing the world map. And now his talk is on TED.com many more people around the world will hear about the constant, incremental changes for the better that rarely feature in the print and broadcast media. This is the 6th TEDxExeter talk to be featured on TED.com

Danny Dorling, Halford Mackinder Professor of Geography at the University of Oxford, challenges us to examine some of our beliefs about the world and open our minds to a new, often...

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Over 9,000 without a home in SW today

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Posted: Thu, 12/01/2016 - 9:08am

A shocking new report today reveals that 9,050 people are homeless in the South West.

For the very first time, housing charity Shelter has revealed the true scale of homelessness in the area by analysing a combination of the most up-to-date government statistics, freedom of information requests, and other published homelessness data.

To mark Shelter’s founding 50 years ago today, the research is inspired by the charity’s original ‘Green Book’ – the report that launched the charity in 1966 and exposed the grim reality of life for homeless families at the time. Sadly, the...

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Give the gift of 3 hours this Christmas to Exeter Deaf Academy

Christmas is the time for giving so pupils from Exeter Deaf Academy have dressed up as ‘Santa’s Little Helpers’ to ask their local community to give the gift of volunteering this festive season.

In the run up to Christmas, Exeter Deaf Academy need volunteers to give just 3 hours to help sell car raffle tickets in Princesshay Exeter on weekdays, weekends or on a Thursday Late Night Shopping evening.

Raffle tickets are sold by volunteers from the Exeter Deaf Academy stand in Princesshay up until Christmas Eve. So far, volunteers have sold over 4,000 raffle tickets, but with...

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