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Exeter Brick Festival returns

After the HUGE success of last year, the Exeter Brick Festival returns on 26 th April, and it's gearing up to be the biggest brick-tastic celebration for LEGO fans!

Immerse yourself in a world of creativity and fun as families, collectors, adult builders, and every LEGO-fanatic imaginable come together for a day of brick-filled bliss!

Wondering what's on at a Brick Festival event? Hold onto your bricks, as Exeter Brick Festival is unleashing a whirlwind of excitement! With new LEGO activities that include lightning-fast speed building competitions to super creative...

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Dine on the wild side in East Devon

Experience a dinner with a difference by joining the East Devon District Council Countryside team and food foraging expert, Chris Holland for a Wild food forage and cook up from 6:30pm to 9pm on Friday May 13 at Holyford Woods and Thursday May 19 at Knapp Copse. Walk with Chris, who is a food foraging expert, through the countryside, looking out for various edible wild plants. Countryside Team Leader, Tim Dafforn said:

‘’What better way to earn your dinner than by foraging for it and preparing it yourself in the great outdoors of the East Devon countryside?’’ After you have enjoyed...

Exeter School gives thanks to founders

Exeter School’s annual Founders’ Day Service was held at Exeter Cathedral on Wednesday 20 April.

The whole school, comprising boys and girls aged 7-18, staff and governors, gathered to give thanks to its founders in a beautiful service.

Revd Dr John Searle commented on how Exeter School and Exeter Cathedral shared over 1000 years between them.

The Reverend Bruce Kinsey, Chaplain and Welfare Officer, Balliol College, Oxford, gave an address at the school’s service about mindfulness. He spoke about the importance of feeling grateful in our lives and encouraged pupils...

South Devon Highway gets gold!

The South Devon Link Road project has been presented with a major industry award for the third consecutive year.

Galliford Try, along with Devon County Council and Torbay Council, were awarded gold status at the prestigious Considerate Constructors Awards held in London.

Now known as the South Devon Highway, this is the third year that the project has been recognised at the awards. 2016 is the first time they received a gold award: the team was given a silver award in both 2014 and 2015.

The awards aim to improve the image of the construction industry: members of...

Devon residents urged to look and listen out for cuckoos

Devon residents are being asked to record cuckoos seen or heard in the county as part of an ongoing conservation project that has received 2,000 reports of the species by the general public in the last two years.

April is the month when cuckoos will start arriving and breeding on Dartmoor and its surrounding areas, after wintering in the African Congo. The birds will spend as little as ten weeks in the UK before departing for warmer climes.

Along with the county’s bird society Devon Birds, researchers at the University of Exeter are asking people to help build a better...

Exeter Braves win A League title

A storming second half showing saw Exeter Braves claim victory in this season’s Aviva Premiership A League final against Northampton Wanderers at Sandy Park.

Triumphant back in 2012, Ricky Pellow’s side repeated the feat on home soil with another impressive display that yielded nine tries for the Devon club.

Experienced skipper Kai Horstmann led the way with two scores, while there were also touchdowns for Michele Campagnaro, Brett Sturgess, Elvis Taione, Ben White, Tom Hendrickson, Byron McGuigan and Sam Simmonds.

Former Northampton youngster Will Hooley did the...

People in SW urged to become more deaf aware

During Deaf Awareness Week (2nd-8th May 2016), national charity Action on Hearing Loss is urging people in the South West to become more deaf aware to ensure people who are deaf or have hearing loss are not being excluded from everyday interactions that their hearing peers are taking for granted.

One in six people (11 million) across the UK are currently living with hearing loss, with the number set to rise to one in five by 2035. However for many of them going to work, managing money at the bank, using public services and taking part in social occasions can still pose an...

Fresh feel to Sidmouth seafront for Folk Week

Sidmouth’s Folk Week will see some changes this year to where the trading stalls are sited along the Esplanade, in order to provide more room for performers to entertain the thousands of people who attend the event.

The move will bring a fresh feel to the seafront as the Folk Week organisers, Sidmouth Town Council, the police and East Devon District Council’s Licensing, Environmental Health and StreetScene services have been working in partnership together behind the scenes to plan the event.

They have reviewed the use of the space along the Esplanade to provide more space...

Chiefs back up to second

The drums in Devon are beating a little louder as Exeter Chiefs moved back into second spot in the Aviva Premiership with an impressive victory over play-off rivals Wasps at Sandy Park.

Unlike some other venues where they feel the need to crank up the atmosphere somewhat artificially, Sandy Park brought it’s own unique crescendo of noise on a decisive day in English rugby’s top flight.

Virtually from start to finish, Rob Baxter’s side dominated proceedings – avenging last month’s European exit at the hands of Wasps – with a powerful and workmanlike display.

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CLIC for Christmas: Calling Devon schools

Following the huge success of last years event, La La Choirs, together with CLIC Sargent, the UK’s leading cancer charity for children and young people, are again putting on a concert in Exeter Cathedral on the evening of Friday 9th December 2016. The La La Choir will be performing two sets at the start and end of the concert with young people who have previously been supported by CLIC Sargent performing as guests. We have one spot left for a guest act.

We would like to offer all Devon schools and Academies, with students aged 12 to 18, the opportunity to bring a choir along to...

Exeter Braves target silverware

Chrysander Botha is targeting silverware this afternoon as the Exeter Braves look to lift the Aviva Premiership A League title for a second time.

Having comprehensively brushed aside Newcastle Falcons 48-15 in last Monday’s semi-final at Sandy Park, Ricky Pellow’s side will again have home advantage when they face Northampton Wanderers (3:30pm).

The Namibian international lines up in a Braves side that shows just one change to that of a week ago. Prop Alex Brown comes into the starting line-up at tight-head as previous incumbent Carl Rimmer was used as a replacement in...

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Exeter Brick Festival returns

Dine on the wild side in East Devon

Exeter School gives thanks to founders

South Devon Highway gets gold!

Devon residents urged to look and listen out for cuckoos

Exeter Braves win A League title

People in SW urged to become more deaf aware

Fresh feel to Sidmouth seafront for Folk Week

Chiefs back up to second

CLIC for Christmas: Calling Devon schools

Exeter Braves target silverware

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