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Exeter led international collaboration given £4.5 million to tackle deadly fungal disease

An international collaboration led by the University of Exeter has been awarded £4.5 million to help improve understanding of fungal diseases that kill 2.5 million people each year.

The funding, from Wellcome, will enable researchers to develop bioimaging tools to visualise the fundamental biology of microscopic fungal pathogens, and to provide training for researchers at the forefront of these diseases.

The team brings together experts from the University of Exeter, the University of Edinburgh, and the University of Cape Town. They are all part of the Mycology...

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Music, song and dance at Dartmoor Folk Festival

TOP local and national artists will headline at the 39th Dartmoor Folk Festival, which will be held at South Zeal, near Okehampton, on August 5, 6 and 7.

They include Blazin' Fiddles, Miranda Sykes and Rex Preston, Bob Fox, Mawkin, Talisk, Pete Coe, Alice Jones and Tickled Pink with Fee Lock.

Other artists attending are The Dartmoor Pixie Band (Friday and Sunday night), Ramsley Minors, Entertainingly Different, Dave Wills, Bill Murray, Tich Scott and various morris and dance teams.

The annual family-festival includes concerts, a ramble on Dartmoor, a ceilidh, folk...

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Exeter City pitch in with topsoil

A project to grow and sell fruit and vegetables has taken root at Exeter Deaf Academy thanks to the generosity of Exeter City Football Club.

In May, Exeter City donated 40 tonnes of topsoil following the club’s pitch renovations at St James’ Park.

The football club’s topsoil is now being recycled and put to horticultural use in Exeter Deaf Academy’s garden nursery for their new ‘Grow Make Sell’ social enterprise. The enterprise aims to provide work related learning and experience for the Academy’s Deaf students.

Exeter City Football Club Estates Manager, Clive Pring...

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Coldplay are kings of Powderham Castle

Coldplay were kings of the castle when they rocked Powderham as the headline act of the Radio 1 Big Weekend.

Exeter-born frontman Chris Martin was visibly moved to be back on home soil.

Before the band's set began, he even knelt and kissed the stage!

The band raised the roof performing some of their favourite hits including Paradise, Yellow and Fix You.

An estimated 50,000 watched acts including Jess Glynne, Ellie Goulding, Take That, Craig David and Mumford and Sons during the two-day event.

One of those at the event, Devon mum Stacey Hedge, tweeted...

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Films chart Cranbrook's development

Authored by Mary Youlden
Posted: Mon, 05/30/2016 - 11:26am

A trilogy of short films, commissioned by East Devon District Council, charting the development of Cranbrook have been released.

The films capture three of the major milestones reached by the East Devon new town at the second half of last year. The films document the first shop opening, the first all-through school (first secondary school / second primary school) opened and the start of the train service.

Cranbrook is about to approach its fifth birthday, as the town was born when the first turf was cut on 29 June 2011.

There are now over 1,300 homes at Cranbrook...

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Half term mayhem at Powderham Castle

Join the Mad Hatter at Powderham Castle for a week of mayhem and madness in the magical American Garden

Whilst the Big Weekend may be over, the fun at Powderham Castle has not ceased.

Between Monday 30th May and Sunday 5th June (including Saturday 4th), visitors can take an exciting trip down the rabbit hole to join the Mad Hatter for some May half-term mayhem at Powderham Castle’s Wonderland Week. The Pocket Watch Theatre Company will be resident with a host of their favourite characters including Alice, the Mad Hatter, March Hare, White Rabbit and the Queen of Hearts for...

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Bridge Road overnight closures warning

Bridge Road in Exeter will be closed overnight to all vehicles from 10pm to 5am on the evenings of Monday 6 June, Tuesday 7 June and Wednesday 8 June.

During these closures, kerbing and surfacing will take place on the east (downstream) side of Bridge Road/Countess Wear Bridge as part of the ongoing improvement work on Bridge Road.

These are among a limited number of overnight or weekend road closures during the scheme, all of which are needed to enable essential construction work to take place safely.

If your property is accessed directly off Bridge Road itself,...

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Is SW coast the next target for desperate immigrants?

Authored by News Desk
Posted: Mon, 05/30/2016 - 6:31am

Concerns have been raised that the SW coast could become a new target for desperate immigramts after Coastguards intercepted a dinghy carrying 18 Albanians trying to reach the Kent coast.

It has emerged that the number of Border Force boats patrolling Britain’s coastline was reduced to three after one was deployed to the Aegean Sea to patrol for migrant smuggling vessels.

The former head of the Navy Admiral Lord West told the Daily Mail: "We are taking a calculated risk with our own territorial waters.

"Already we have seen these illegal immigrants and I don’t...

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Half term fun with East Devon Countryside

Authored by Mary Youlden
Posted: Sun, 05/29/2016 - 10:27pm

Explore East Devon with Countryside's Education Rangers over half term

The Countryside team is offering a fun-filled programme of events for children and their families this half term - from splashing in the stream at Honiton Bottom, or digging for worms in Exmouth.

The events aim to inspire children and adults to get out and explore their natural environment through fun games and activities.

All of the events listed cost just £4 per child with a discount offered to East Devon District Council tenants. Places must be booked in advance.

  • Bear hunt,
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Have your say about a Neighbourhood Plan for Denbury and Torbryan

Denbury and Torbryan Parish Council have submitted an application for their whole parish to be designated as a Neighbourhood Area with a view to producing a Neighbourhood Plan.

Local people who live and work in and around Denbury and Torbryan are being invited to comment on the application to create a Neighbourhood Plan for Denbury and Torbryan. The consultation runs for four weeks from Wednesday 18th May 2016 until 4.30pm Friday 17th June 2016. A Neighbourhood Plan is a community-led process for guiding the future development, regeneration and conservation of an area and is about...

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We'll learn from the experience says Baxter

Rob Baxter admits his side’s slow start cost them the game, but was also a necessary learning curve after their second-half comeback at Twickenham.

Jack Yeandle and Jack Nowell went over for the Chiefs to trim a 23-3 lead for Saracens to just three points at the close of the second half .

“Is there anything that I can say or do or could we have had anything different before hand? I don’t think so. I think that we needed that first half-hour of a final, that’s the easiest way for me to wrap that up,” Baxter said.

“We needed that and what they felt like and the...

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