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The successful 6 a side football league run by Football Mundial, on Monday nights, is looking for new teams for the new season that has just started!

All Matches are played on fantastic Astroturf Pitches in Exeter at Isca College.

It is FREE to enter the league with places available right now for teams of all standards welcome!

The Exeter 6 a side leagues run outdoors on the superb Astroturf Pitch, will have 16 teams competing in two divisions, with promotion and relegation taking place in each league.

Tom McDonough from Football Mundial says, “the leagues...

As part of the Great British Beach Clean week (16-19 September), organised by the Marine Conservation Society, the National Trust has a series of beach cleans taking place in Devon and Cornwall this September for volunteers to come along and help clear up their local beach. There are nearly 2,500 items of rubbish for every kilometre on a beach and every year National Trust staff and volunteers use valuable time cleaning up the beaches it clears for and the Trust is calling for everyone to take some time, get out and help clear their local beach. Nick Lawrence, National Trust Assistant...

Some of Exeter’s most fascinating buildings will open their doors to the public free of charge next week for Heritage Open Days.

Among those taking part are Exeter’s Guildhall, the Barnfield Theatre, Princesshay ,Tuckers Hall, 21 The Mint, various Red Coat Guided tours and Exeter’s Underground Passages. The event runs from Thursday 8 to Sunday 11 September.

Many of the venues participating are not usually open to the public or otherwise charge an entry fee. This is a unique opportunity to explore these sometimes hidden, often curious, and always interesting places. This...

Citizens Advice Exeter, today said it was concerned about an increases in enquiries about welfare benefits, employment and housing.

In the first four-months of the financial year the charity helped 14% more people when compared to the same period in 2015.

The advice trends over the period were as follows:

Housing Overall, the charity dealt with 10.9% more housing enquiries. The main increases being:

• 94.7% about housing association properties • 77.2% about actual homelessness • 7.0% about threatened homelessness

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