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A Taste of Zen: Suki Cafe Elevates Exeter’s Food Scene with New Matcha Soft Serve Menu

Exeter is fast becoming a true foodie lover’s destination. With its diverse range of cuisines and innovative independent restaurants, the city offers residents and visitors alike a genuine taste of the good life. Now, there is a vibrant new reason to explore the city’s historic heart: Suki Cafe has officially launched its highly anticipated matcha soft serve menu.

Tucked away from the hustle and bustle of the High Street, just a five-minute stroll from Exeter Cathedral, on Waterbeer St, Suki Cafe is a quiet, unassuming gem. For over a year, it has delighted locals with a unique...

Investing in Exeter Cathedral’s future, brick by brick

Authored by Mary Youlden
Posted: Thu, 10/13/2016 - 11:36am

Rathbone Investment Management have made a significant contribution to one of the city’s biggest LEGO® models as part of their sponsorship of Exeter Cathedral’s Big LEGO Build. The Build is a major fundraising project to build a scale model of the Cathedral from 300,000 LEGO bricks, using a design by certified LEGO builders Bright Bricks. Visitors to the Cathedral are being encouraged to get involved, and for every £1 donated a brick can be added to the model. Staff from the firm’s central Exeter office built a LEGO “flying buttress” earlier this year under the watchful eye of the project...

Hospiscare coffee mornings: Another double duccess

Authored by Hospiscare
Posted: Thu, 10/13/2016 - 10:31am

Hospiscare are delighted to announce that two more of the celebrated local charity’s coffee mornings have proven very successful.

Little MarVals Preschool in Pinhoe held their Hospiscare coffee morning on 30th September. The school which caters for children aged 2-5 years, invited mums and dads and the local community to a parents’ coffee morning at the United Reformed Church in Pinhoe.

Children and parents enjoyed cake and browsing toy stalls and sharing their work with the community. An organist also played and at the end of the day,

Little MarVals raised £125 for...

888 Holdings Wins Best Digital Operator At Global Gaming Awards

Authored by Newshound
Posted: Thu, 10/13/2016 - 10:17am

Many people involved are rejoicing as 888 holdings wins Best Digital Operator at Global Gaming Awards . These rewards really serve to demonstrate just how much the culture of online gaming has really grown in recent years. There are now awards that people can win and that people can try to compete for, allowing them to market themselves in an entirely new way. Now, more and more people are going to know about the 888casino site. This award and this mention will give them some of the best publicity that they've had in years.

The panel for the Global Gaming Awards consisted of sixty...

Hoteliers Walk-the-Walk to support SW Coast Path

Authored by News Desk
Posted: Thu, 10/13/2016 - 8:00am

One of the most renowned family hotels in Devon, Langstone Cliff , will be taking on 10.9 miles of the South West Coast Path on Sunday 30th October to help raise vital funds for its popular public path.

Louise Attwood, Front of House Manager, said: “The South West Coast Path is one of our most treasured attractions which help keep our family-run hotel on the Dawlish coastline busy all year round. For years we’ve offered up the path as a free attraction for guests coming to stay at the hotel as well as enjoying many a stroll ourselves over the years. This year, we’ve decided we’d...

South West Falcon shortlisted for UK Bus Award

Bus operator Stagecoach South West has announced that it has been shortlisted to win a prestigious UK Bus Award for its successful South West Falcon service.

The Peter Huntley Memorial Award, for making buses a better choice, recognises and rewards initiatives, projects or innovations that add value to or otherwise improve the attractiveness of bus and coach services to both users and non-users.

Launched in February 2016, at a cost of £2.5m, the South West Falcon is the first dedicated 24/7 coach service to connect major locations across the South West. Operating 19...

Mobile has improved the online betting accessibility

Authored by News Desk
Posted: Thu, 10/13/2016 - 6:12am

Mobile has improved the online betting accessibility that everyone can expect. Many people have had a hard time gaining access to casino games from any venue traditionally. While online casino gaming itself helped to turn that around, people have still been limited when it came to the fact that they'd still need to be next to a computer before they could engage in online betting and online casino gaming of any kind.

Today, having to be close to a computer at all times doesn't seem quite as daunting as it did at one point. In a world of laptops, accessible Wi-Fi hot-spots , and...

Parents of missing Arthur Heeler-Frood plead for son to get in contact

Authored by News Desk
Posted: Thu, 10/13/2016 - 3:55am

Caroline and Jeremy Heeler-Frood have pleaded for their son to make contact in an emotional appeal today [Tuesday 11 October] which marks the fifth week since the 15-year-old went missing.

Arthur’s mum, Caroline, appealed directly to her son: “We’re missing you terribly. We don’t know that you are safe or what situation you’re in. I don’t think you realise how hard it is for us, please make contact.”

Police are also appealing specifically to anyone who may have employed Arthur, accommodated him or who may have provided him with transport to get in touch.

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Organic Arts awarded Lottery funding

Organic Arts is celebrating today after being awarded a grant of £158,385 from the Big Lottery Fund.

The fund will support Organic Arts’ community garden for the next five years which gives people to opportunity to engage in a variety of garden based practical activities on the outskirts of Exeter in Ide.

It offers volunteering opportunities for anyone who wants to get involved but is particularly targeted at people with mental health issues, physical disabilities, learning disabilities and people recovering from addiction.

Volunteer days are offered on Wednesday...

Deaf Academy students and RAMM to launch unique film

Authored by Mary Youlden
Posted: Wed, 10/12/2016 - 10:52am

Exeter Deaf Academy students will share what they imagine might happen at the Royal Albert Memorial Museum & Art Gallery (RAMM) at night in the launch of their “Writing With Our Hands” film on Wednesday 19th October.

The showing is part of Exeter’s exetreme imagination festival of writing and stories.

Inspired by objects from the RAMM collection, Exeter Deaf Academy students have produced a book of poetry entitled “Writing With Our Hands”. Working with RAMM and Stories Connect, the students transformed their anthology into a short story “Night at the Museum” which is...

Utility road reinstatements to be examined by Scrutiny Committee

Authored by News Desk
Posted: Wed, 10/12/2016 - 9:45am

The reinstatement of Devon’s roads by utility companies will be examined by Devon County Council’s Place Scrutiny Committee next month (November).

The latest findings from the County Council’s annual coring programme, which tests work by utility companies, has revealed that standards have slipped over the past year.

Around 300 core samples were randomly taken from utility reinstatements across the county from July 2015 to July 2016. This programme examined samples from 146 roads and 155 footways, all of which had complied with visual inspections.

According to the...

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