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Exeter to Celebrate Best of Local Food and Drink at Gate to Plate Festival

Exeter is set to host a celebration of the region's finest food and drink producers when the Exeter Gate to Plate Food Festival comes to Sidwell Street on Sunday 4 October.

The free, family-friendly event will bring together more than 70 food and drink makers from across Devon and the surrounding area, with most producers based within a 30-mile radius of Exeter.

Visitors can expect a wide variety of local produce including artisan bakers, farmers, brewers, orchardists, coffee roasters, delicatessens, sweet treats and an array of street food vendors.

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Giant waterslide to hit Exeter this summer!

One of the hottest events to hit the UK is coming to the streets of Exeter this summer.

For one day only, on Sunday 6th September, Exeter Deaf Academy will transform Fore Street hill into a giant water slide for Exeter Street Slide - so you can see the summer out with a splash!

Exeter Street Slide, sponsored by Firewatch, is the first event of its kind to take place in Exeter and it’s sure to make a big splash at the end of the summer!

The event is being run by and in aid of one of Exeter's oldest charities, Exeter Deaf Academy.

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Camping? Don't use a BBQ to heat your tent

Do you know that barbcues give off poisonous carbon monoxide hours after use? Bringing them into a tent or awning to keep warm is a recipe for disaster.

You cannot smell, taste or see Carbon Monoxide. So, if you suddenly get flu symptoms, or have headaches, nausea and vomiting, dizziness, drowsiness or weakness you may have Carbon Monoxide poisoning. People often don’t realise that they are being overcome by fumes until it is too late.

Modern tents are designed as an integral structure with built-in groundsheets and carbon monoxide gases can rise to fatal levels in a matter...

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Rail Minister opens Newcourt Station

Authored by News Desk
Posted: Thu, 07/30/2015 - 5:33pm

Rail Minister Claire Perry has officially opened Newcourt Station today (Thursday 30 July).

The first train services stopped at the new £2.2 million station last month and it is now being served by a half-hourly local service on the Exmouth branch line.

The Minister visited the station today after announcing major rail improvements between Devon and London, with a £360 million investment in a new fleet of trains increasing capacity and cutting journey times.

Devon County Council has worked closely with the Department for Transport, Network Rail and First Great...

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New trains for London to SW services

Rail passengers are set to benefit from better and faster journeys after the government gave the go-ahead for a brand new fleet of trains running between London and Cornwall.

The deal will allow First Great Western to buy 29 new long-distance trains to serve the South West from 2018.

The state-of-the-art trains will have up to 24% more seats compared to the majority of the trains serving the route today, creating more than 1,000 additional peak-time seats into and out of Paddington every day.

The privately funded £360 million fleet, which will be manufactured by...

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Steak, seafood and cocktails at Circa 1924

Authored by Stacy Hill
Posted: Thu, 07/30/2015 - 12:04pm

Circa 1924, a new restaurant located just off Exeter High Street at 6 Northernhay Place, is set to take the city’s culinary scene by storm with its 1920s-inspired steak and seafood house and ‘moonshiner’ speakeasy cocktail bar.

Formerly Harry’s Grill Bar, Circa 1924 is owned by two local lads, Rob Weeks and James Waddington, who searched for months for premises that would allow them to combine their love of food and drink in a building with a vintage twist.

James explains: “After both spending time living away from the area, we couldn't help but notice that our...

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Rachel takes on Great West Run a year after serious injury

Authored by Mary Youlden
Posted: Thu, 07/30/2015 - 11:53am

After rupturing her ACL last October, Rachel Gabriel from Plymouth, is impressively set to run Exeter’s Great West Run almost exactly one year on.

Being a member of the Armed Forces and having a very active lifestyle has made Rachel aware of how disheartening an injury can be, but she has not let this affect her motivation. In October 2014, Rachel slipped on wet grass during a warm up for a morning circuit at work. She said: “I immediately knew that I’d hurt my knee as I heard a snap.” After an MRI scan in November 2014 revealed that Rachel had completely ruptured her anterior...

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Police reveal summer drink drive figures

Authored by Mary Youlden
Posted: Thu, 07/30/2015 - 11:39am

Figures have been released for Devon and Cornwall Police’s summer drink driving campaign for 2015.

Police officers administered a total of 788 breath tests of which 163 were positive, refused or failed to provide, equating to 20%.

Last year the comparable figures were 776 breath tests with 132 positive, refused or failed to provide which equates to 17%.

Examples which stood out during the campaign included a 37 male driver who blew 143 at 8:50am on a Saturday morning and a 71 year old male who blew 120 at 9:20am on a Tuesday morning. The legal limit is 35.

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New fleet of trains to bring better journeys to the South West

Authored by Mary Youlden
Posted: Thu, 07/30/2015 - 11:14am

Rail passengers are set to benefit from better and faster journeys after the government gave the go-ahead for a brand new fleet of trains running between London and Cornwall.

The deal will allow First Great Western to buy 29 new long-distance trains to serve the South West from 2018.

The state-of-the-art trains will have up to 24% more seats compared to the majority of the trains serving the route today, creating more than 1,000 additional peak-time seats into and out of Paddington every day.

The privately funded £360 million fleet, which will be manufactured by...

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Extinct animal found living near Exeter

Authored by Mary Youlden
Posted: Thu, 07/30/2015 - 11:00am

An animal that has only been recorded once in the UK before and was thought to be extinct has been found alive and well living on a Devon Wildlife Trust nature reserve.

The fly, Rhaphium pectinatum, was last recorded on 19 July 1868 when the renowned Victorian entomologist George Verrall caught a male and female at Richmond in Surrey. In the decades since it was presumed that the fly was extinct, but now, nearly 150 years later it has been spotted again, this time at Devon Wildlife Trust’s Old Sludge beds nature reserve, near Exeter.

The remarkable discovery was made by...

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Major expansion plans for luxury lodge makers

Pathfinder Homes have announced an expansion leading to the recruitment of at least 50 new team members.

The Newton Abbot based, UK’s leading luxury lodge manufacturer plans to create new apprenticeships and skilled jobs in the forthcoming year. The new recruits to Pathfinder Homes will work in a range of areas, including carpentry, painting and decorating, plumbing and even sales, accounts and HR.

Pathfinder Homes has recently become the only lodge manufacturer to win the prestigious ‘Ultimate Lodge of the Year Award’ for three consecutive years and have always focused...

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