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Exeter City Football Club are offering special tours of their St James Park Stadium at 11am on 8 and 9 September.

The tours are part of Exeter City Council's Heritage Weekend (8-11 September) - an annual initiative that the Football Club has participated in for a number of years. The scheme offers members of the public the chance to visit (for free) historic buildings in Exeter.

The Exeter City Supporters Trust organises the stadium tours and stresses that this may be one of the last opportunities one will get to visit the historic Old Grandstand which was built in 1926 - a...

You might have heard of singing for your supper, but how about cycling for your smoothies?

This is just one of the surprises awaiting you at stalls 58,59 and 60 at the Exeter Green Fair in Exeter Cathedral Green this Saturday, the 3rd of September.

Following a very successful appearance at last years Fair (when everything was sold out way before the end of the day - don't worry, there will be plenty for everyone this year) Master Choy and Crhisine Chin of the Rainbow Tai Chi School, in Ashburton are bringing not one but three stalls to the fair. You will find them easily as...

Work gets underway on a new flood embankment around Exwick playing fields next week (5 September).

The work, which aims to reduce flood risk to properties behind the playing fields, is part of the second phase of Exeter’s flood defence scheme.

Two out of the three playing fields will remain open during the works but the third playing field, which is closest to the health centre, will be used to stockpile material and provide onsite facilities until the embankment is complete. Although the construction is expected to be completed by spring 2017, the playing field will need...

Exeter-based social enterprise Sound Gallery CIC, is pleased to announce that their application to the Devon Community Foundation has been successful and have been awarded £2,000 from The Wace Family Trust.

Their project will be aimed at providing personal development and employability training for 20 young people at risk of social isolation based in East Devon and Exeter, giving them an insight into careers in the music industry, helping to raise aspirations and open a new world of opportunity.

Sound Gallery will offer work-based training opportunities and will aim to...