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Your chance to help shape Exeter’s cultural landscape

Exeter City Council is developing a new Culture Strategy to shape the future development and delivery of Exeter’s cultural and creative landscape over the next five years.

The Council, working closely with local cultural organisations and attractions, further and higher education institutions, creative artists, and community groups, is encouraging people to take part in a new survey and share their views on the future of culture in Exeter.

Significant investment and regeneration is happening in Exeter, but this also comes at a time of unprecedented pressure on public and...

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Tales and Dreams from the River Bank

Testing the Water, a fun family day about the future of Riverside and Ludwell Valley parks takes place on Sunday (27 September) just south of Exeter quayside. The event, which runs from 10am to 4pm will be opened by the Deputy Lord Mayor, Cllr Lesley Robson and takes place in and around a marquee pitched by the Trew’s weir suspension bridge, just south of the red and white buoy on Exeter quay.

Testing the Water promises to be fun, informative and also capture people’s views and ideas for the future of these popular green spaces. There is a range of activities suitable for all...

Tongan team takes time out

Ikale Tahi, the Tonga Rugby Union team are staying in Exeter for Rugby World Cup 2015.

On Tuesday 22 September, they visited Exeter’s Royal Albert Memorial Museum (RAMM) with their families. Accompanied by the Cllr Lesley Robson the Deputy Lord Mayor and the city mace bearer, they visited Exeter quay, enjoyed tea on the Cathedral Green and visited the museum.

Welcomed by the Museum Manager Camilla Hampshire and Curator of Ethnography Tony Eccles, their tour of the museum included RAMM’s Oceania displays in the World Cultures galleries, Touch-Line, the exhibition of...

Exeter hospice named Searle House

Our Exeter hospice has been named Searle House in recognition of the dedicated local family which helped establish our vital service.

Liz and John Searle were the driving force behind the group which 33 years ago established us as a local charity. Starting with just two community nurses Hospiscare quickly expanded and we opened the hospice on the RD&E Wonford site in 1992.

Today Hospiscare has 160 staff, 1,000 volunteers, three day centres and a 12 bed hospice; these services cost us £6m a year to run, with £1.25m funded by the NHS and the rest by fundraising events,...

Appeal after suitcase stolen from train

Police have issued an image of a man who tried to use a stolen bank card in Torquay, which was taken in a suitcase theft on a Liskeard-bound train.

Officers from British Transport Police (BTP) hope someone will recognise the man – caught on camera outside the Halifax bank on Union Street making several attempts to enter the pin number– and come forward with his name.

A laptop was among other items inside the suitcase, which was stolen on the 4.25pm First Great Western train from Exeter on 19 July.

Sergeant Michael Phillips from BTP said: “The victim, a woman in her...

Appeal to green-fingered Exeter residents

The Stoke Hill Community Association is appealing for green-fingered residents to pitch-in and help create a new community garden in the imposing grounds of St Katherine’s Priory on the 26-27 September.

The project, which is backed by the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS), will be part of an open weekend at the Priory designed to bring the community together to share existing skills, learn new ones and turn an area of grey to green as part of the national Greening Grey Britain campaign.

RHS experts will be on-hand over the weekend to offer training, advice and insight to...

Exeter buses dressed for Rugby World Cup

Buses across Exeter have been decked out with scarves’ vinyls welcoming the visiting countries playing Rugby World Cup matches at Sandy Park.

The 50 giant scarves, designed by Storm Press, are in the colours of the five nations playing in Exeter: Tonga, Namibia, Georgia, Italy and Romania. They welcome each country in their native language. Buses will also carry scarves with the traditional ‘Come on England’ message.

A group set up by Exeter City Council and Exeter Chiefs Rugby Club ,and linking with local businesses, developed a range of initiatives to ‘dress Exeter ’...

FORCE shop set for partial re-opening

The FORCE Cancer Charity shop in Heavitree will partially re-open on Friday October 2.

The award-winning shop in Fore Street has been closed since August 21 for essential refurbishment work.

Contractors have been carrying out renovations including new roofing, some structural work, total rewiring and redecoration.

They have completed work on the furniture and book section of the shop, which will be re-carpeted early next week and re-stocked with a variety of items in time to welcome customers again on Friday.

“We’ll put a bit of everything in, including...

Amazon and Lloyds Bank email scam warning

Detectives at Devon and Cornwall Police are warning people of two current email scams that are circulating the internet.

One is an Amazon scam, which claims Amazon accounts have been breached, this is incorrect, Amazon accounts have not been hacked into.

The fake email address from ukamazonverify.co.uk asks you to complete an ‘account verification’ process. Officers are warning members of the public not to enter any personal or bank details.

The other is a Lloyds bank scam. The email poses as coming from a member of staff from Lloyds bank called Chang Crabtree. It...

Maynard School appoints Pre-Prep head

The Maynard School has announced the appointment of Miss Sarah Reddaway as Head of the newly established Pre-Prep Department. Sarah, who was brought up and educated in Devon, currently works at The Hampshire School in Chelsea where she is Head of Phase One (years 1 – 3) and also the Year One Class Teacher.

“Sarah was an outstanding candidate and we are thrilled to offer her this position. She is very experienced in the Pre-Prep field, clearly loves her job and I’m sure will be a wonderful addition to the staff here at The Maynard,” said Headmistress, Bee Hughes.

“These are...

Call for adventurers to explore local paths

The Ramblers is calling on young people in the South West to head off the beaten track to explore footpaths in their area, in the very first project to gather a complete picture of the state of footpaths throughout England and Wales.

The Big Pathwatch is the Ramblers’ biggest and most ambitious project ever to survey every right of way in England and Wales in order to build a national picture of the state of the paths – the first time this has ever been done!

It is the perfect chance for adventurous young people to discover new places and paths, and this opportunity can now...

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Your chance to help shape Exeter’s cultural landscape

Tales and Dreams from the River Bank

Tongan team takes time out

Exeter hospice named Searle House

Appeal after suitcase stolen from train

Appeal to green-fingered Exeter residents

Exeter buses dressed for Rugby World Cup

FORCE shop set for partial re-opening

Amazon and Lloyds Bank email scam warning

Maynard School appoints Pre-Prep head

Call for adventurers to explore local paths

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