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Libraries Unlimited is delighted to announce that Our Freedom: Then and Now, a major UK-wide exhibition marking 80 years since the end of the Second World War, will be on display at Exeter Library from 15 June to 10 July 2026.

Developed by Future Arts Centres in partnership with Open Eye Gallery and Libraries Connected, and supported by public funding from Arts Council England, the exhibition brings together images from 60 locally led projects across the UK.

Together, they form a powerful nationwide portrait of people, place and belonging, revealing communities’...

The University of Exeter and the Ocean Conservation Trust (OCT) have signed a new partnership agreement to work together on some of the biggest challenges facing our ocean.

The new Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) brings together Exeter’s world-leading expertise in marine science and marine biology with OCT’s pioneering work in ocean conservation, education and public engagement.

Together, the organisations will explore new ways to protect marine environments, inspire the next generation of ocean advocates and strengthen the South-West region’s reputation as a global...

A pioneering new 'cohousing' community is proposing to save a listed building in the Pinhoe Road, Exeter, as part of a brand new development that they are helping to design themselves.

Located at the former site of the Honeylands Assessment Unit, the group are working with a developer, Aspen Retirement, who will submit a planning application in mid-June for a scheme known as ‘cohousing’.

The first members of the Cohousing Exeter group have begun co-designing their planned 37 future homes on the site of Honeylands House at Whipton which has been vacant for over ten years...

This ‘kitten season’ tattoo studios across the South West as well as tattoo fans of all ages are being called on to celebrate their dedication to cats and body art by hosting tattoo-focused days during July to raise money for local needy moggies.

Cats Protection has seen a number of tattoo studios over the past two years create dedicated flash days to raise money for its cat rehoming centres and volunteer-run branches. Now the charity hopes to unite cat-loving tattoo artists with its ink-loving supporters to raise money to help more cats and kittens through the annual boom in...