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Exeter Students Take Anti-Bullying Message to National Stage

Students from West Exe School have represented their community at a national anti-bullying conference in London.

Ayeisha, William and Willow, Senior Anti-Bullying Ambassadors at the school, travelled to the capital with staff to take part in the first Young Anti-Bullying Alliance (ABA) meeting for the 2026 England and Wales cohort.

The conference brought together young people from across the country to share ideas, develop strategies, and strengthen efforts to tackle bullying in schools.

The day also included open discussions about the impact of social media and...

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Tony Hogg welcomes further reduction in recorded crime

Recorded crime across Devon and Cornwall has reduced by 11% during Police and Crime Commissioner Tony Hogg’s term of office Comparing total recorded crime for the 12 month period to the end of December 2015 to the 12 month period to the end of December 2012. This represents nearly 10,000 fewer crimes per year in 2015 compared to 2012. As a result, the risk of being a victim of crime has reduced substantially. This good performance has been driven by consistent reductions in acquisitive crime. For example burglary and theft offences have reduced by nearly a quarter (22%) during the...

FoodCycle project launches in Exeter

Exeter is the newest location to launch a FoodCycle community meal made entirely from surplus food.

FoodCycle, a nationwide charity with 29 projects, uses surplus food from supermarkets to cook healthy, three-course meals for people who are in need of a warm meal and a chance to meet other people in their community.

FoodCycle Exeter opened its door in March 2016, and has been cooking up a storm every Tuesday evening at 6pm at the Wonford Community Centre, in Wonford, Exeter.

Anna Lo Jacomo, one of the volunteers running the project, says “FoodCycle is a friendly...

Do you have the Foodie Factor?

Exeter's New Dining Quarter Want to Know: “Do you have the Foodie Factor?”

Opening in August 2016, Exeter's exciting new Queen St dining quarter will be the city's premium dining location. This £12m culinary hub will be home to eight restaurants serving food and drink to cater for all tastes and budgets, day and night.

If that wasn't exciting enough the Queen St team have now launched their search for a budding chef, secret baker, gastronomic genius or someone who produces 'great grub'

Find a Foodie is an opportunity of a lifetime, the chance to be part of this '...

Maynard School celebrates The Queen's 90th birthday

Girls at The Maynard School in Exeter got into the spirit of things to mark the Queen’s 90th birthday on Thursday.

Everyone dressed for the day in red, white and blue and, following a quick assembly, great fun was had by all in making the number 90 on the tennis courts outside the main school building.

In this formation, they even managed a quick rendition of ‘Happy Birthday to You’ followed by a solo saxophonist playing a very poignant national anthem before returning to their classrooms.

Crime continues to fall across region

New figures announced today (Thursday, 21st April) show that recorded crime continues to fall across Devon and Cornwall.

Crime recorded between the 1st April 2015 and the 31st March 2016 shows a 3.8 per cent reduction on the same period the year prior. This equates to 3,021 fewer crimes compared to 2014/15.

Victim based reported crimes reduced 5.2 per cent with further reductions in burglary dwelling (14.9%) and burglary non-dwelling (11.5%); plus vehicle offences (10.1%); theft (13.1%); shoplifting (12.5%); and criminal damage (6.2%) also saw a reduction.

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Major coup for Queen Street dining quarter

Aviva Investors, the global asset management business of Aviva plc (‘Aviva’) confirmed today that Lebanese restaurant Comptoir Libanais, will be the seventh restaurant to join Exeter's exciting new Queen St dining quarter.

In signing up Comptoir Libanais, this announcement from Aviva Investors is being heralded as another major coup for Queen St dining, Exeter and the South West.

The hugely popular Comptoir Libanais, has twelve restaurants in the UK, eight of which are in central London, will be located on the corner of the newly re-modelled Market Square and St Pancras...

Horse rider injured by car in South Devon

Police are appealing for witnesses after reports of a car failing to stop following an incident that left a young rider injured on Moor Road, Ipplepen.

Just before 9.30am on Saturday 16 April, a 17-year-old girl was knocked from her horse after a car drove around a corner causing the horse to spook and rear.

The rider sustained a suspected broken arm and sprained ankle.

The car then drove off without speaking to the rider. The driver is described as a white man, approximately 40-years-old, of large build and was possibly wearing a high visibility jacket.

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Campaign launches for more Lollipoppers

Motor insurance specialist, Churchill Insurance, has launched a nationwide campaign to identify schools in need of a Lollipopper and have pledged to recruit and deploy 50 in areas of need for the next school year. The campaign, launched by actor and father-of-two, Robert Webb, will give the public the opportunity to nominate a primary school they feel is in need of a Lollipopper before 50 are selected by representatives from Churchill, road safety charity Brake and leading parent champions PTA UK. Since UK legislation was introduced in 2000 stating that Lollipoppers were no longer a legal...

Exeter's Queen St dining line-up complete

Aviva Investors, the global asset management business of Aviva plc (‘Aviva’), confirmed today (Thursday 21 April 2016) that a new Southern US inspired gourmet chicken brand, Absurd Bird, will be the eighth restaurant, completing the line up at Exeter's exciting new Queen St dining quarter.

With their restaurant in London's Spitalfields opening just last month and another branch opening in Soho very soon, Exeter has been selected by Absurd Bird for the opening of their first restaurant outside the capital. For Aviva Investors, signing up Absurd Bird marks a culinary milestone for...

Spring in the garden at Castle Drogo

After the long wet winter, Castle Drogo’s rhododendron garden is bursting into colour following vital conservation work and visitors can now stroll through the new paths and admire the vivid plants and other spring flowers such as daffodils, camellias and bluebells carpeting the garden floor.

For those who find accessing areas such as the garden or wider Drogo estate difficult, there is now a tramper available to hire as part of the Countryside Mobility South West scheme. The tramper route takes in some of the most fragrant parts of the garden including the azalea path and rose...

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Exeter Students Take Anti-Bullying Message to National Stage

Tony Hogg welcomes further reduction in recorded crime

FoodCycle project launches in Exeter

Do you have the Foodie Factor?

Maynard School celebrates The Queen's 90th birthday

Crime continues to fall across region

Major coup for Queen Street dining quarter

Horse rider injured by car in South Devon

Campaign launches for more Lollipoppers

Exeter's Queen St dining line-up complete

Spring in the garden at Castle Drogo

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