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A Taste of Zen: Suki Cafe Elevates Exeter’s Food Scene with New Matcha Soft Serve Menu

Exeter is fast becoming a true foodie lover’s destination. With its diverse range of cuisines and innovative independent restaurants, the city offers residents and visitors alike a genuine taste of the good life. Now, there is a vibrant new reason to explore the city’s historic heart: Suki Cafe has officially launched its highly anticipated matcha soft serve menu.

Tucked away from the hustle and bustle of the High Street, just a five-minute stroll from Exeter Cathedral, on Waterbeer St, Suki Cafe is a quiet, unassuming gem. For over a year, it has delighted locals with a unique...

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Exeter CAB launches ‘Click or Call’ service

Leading local advice charity Exeter Citizens Advice Bureau has announced the launch of a new ‘Click or Call’ advice and information service.

The charity is suggesting that clients with access to the internet first click the on-line advice and information resources and factsheets available at www.citizensadvice.org.uk

The website is available 24 hours a day. A pilot webchat service has also been launched as part of the new service, with plans for an email service also being developed.

Clients who do not have access to the internet, or are unable to find what they are...

Sun shines on charity golfers

Golfers lined up in the bright sunshine to take part in Exeter’s popular Marnie Burgoyne Memorial Golf Day.

Nearly 50 teams enjoyed a great day out and raised cash for us. The Exeter tournament is sponsored by John Burgoyne, who runs Burgoynes Estate Agents and the trophy is presented in memory of his mum, Marnie Burgoyne, who was one of the original Hospiscare fundraising committee members.

Our Hospiscare nurses cared for Marie in her own home and for the last ten days of her life they looked after her in the hospice.

The tournament, held at the Exeter Golf and...

Rock solid: FGW strike action continues

Pickets are out in force again today as a strike over jobs, services and safety on First Great Western ‎enters it's second full day.

General Secretary Mick Cash said: "The solidarity, unity and fighting spirit of RMT members the length and breadth of the FGW franchise has been a fantastic example for the whole trade union movement as we face up to attacks on our jobs and conditions and the safe delivery of services to the travelling public. "Our pickets have reported strong public support for this action as the people who use these routes know only too well what profiteering and...

Shortage of houses fuels higher prices in South West

House price growth increased again in the South West in June, pointing to renewed acceleration in house price inflation during the second half of the year, according to the latest RICS UK Residential Market Survey.

In the region, 50% more surveyors expect house prices to rise over the next three months, which is the highest proportion since April 2014. As new instructions continue to fall in the region, 25% more surveyors saw a fall rather than rise in the last month, demand

continued to edge upwards despite the more cautious attitude of lenders. 26% more surveyors saw a...

Safe stolen from Tiverton building society

Police in Tiverton need the public’s help to identify two men they would like to speak to in connection with commercial burglaries in the town.

Two businesses on Angel Hill were broken into in the early hours of Monday 15 June, sometime before 8am.

The offenders are believed to have entered the premises by forcing their way in through the side doors.

A large grey safe, with a black handle on the front, was removed by the offenders from inside the Yorkshire Building Society.

Naturally Green, the premises next door, was also broken into and electronic...

Art Show success for Exeter School artists

Exeter School’s Art Department is delighted to announce that two A Level Art pupils were prize winners at ‘The Exeter Art Show’ held on 4 and 5 July at The Maynard School.

Miles Johal in the Lower Sixth was awarded first prize for his semi-abstract acrylic painting of architectural features, winning £250.

Miles visited the exhibition on Saturday and said: “it was a lovely surprise to discover that I had won the prize, particularly given the wide range and high standard of pupil work on display.”

Clara Finnigan in the Upper Sixth was also a prize winner, coming third...

Exeter one of UK’s top 10 nuisance call hotspots

Research by Community CallBLOCKER, a new service which allows victims of nuisance calls to block unwanted numbers, record and share them with the CallBLOCKING Community, reveals that Exeter is one of the UK’s top nuisance call hotpots.

Community CallBLOCKER, commissioned YouGov to find out the extent of the nuisance call epidemic across the nation. Highlights for Exeter include:

64% of people in Exeter are receiving up to 15 nuisance calls a week
2% of people receiving over 20 calls a week!
38%of those polled are at breaking point, stating that

Chronic pain relief explored by Exeter academic in BBC documentary

Life expectancy in the developed world is increasing, but for those with chronic pain, living longer could be seen as more of a curse than a blessing.

A University of Exeter academic will be exploring ground-breaking research into relieving chronic pain in a BBC Radio 4 documentary on 15 July at 9pm.

As we live longer more of us will begin to suffer chronic pain, but conventional medicine cannot offer a complete cure and usually only provides limited relief.

It is estimated the NHS will need an additional £5 billion by 2018 to deal with chronic conditions, leading...

Have your say on new Exeter Park and Ride

A consultation will be held on proposals for a new Park and Ride on the south west outskirts of Exeter.

Devon County Council is developing plans for the site adjacent to the A30/A377 interchange, between the westbound A30 slip road and the road that leads out towards Ide.

Consultation events will be held at West Exe School on Tuesday 21 July, from 4pm to 8pm, and at Ide Village Hall on Thursday 23 July, from 4pm to 8pm.

Visitors to the exhibitions will be able to view the site options and indicative layout plan for the preferred option and comment on them, and staff...

Brewin Dolphin Exeter post budget comments

Brewin Dolphin, one of the UK’s leading wealth managers with an office in Exeter, said Chancellor George Osborne had delivered a carefully thought-through Budget that balanced the need for spending restraint with measures designed to deliver economic growth. Stephen Ford, Head of Wealth and Investment Management Brewin Dolphin, said: “ Osborne’s ‘Security First’ Budget walked a careful tightrope, balancing carefully-considered welfare cuts with the introduction of the living wage along with other measures that signify Britain is open for Business. The Chancellor gets a thumbs up for...

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A Taste of Zen: Suki Cafe Elevates Exeter’s Food Scene with New Matcha Soft Serve Menu

Exeter CAB launches ‘Click or Call’ service

Sun shines on charity golfers

Rock solid: FGW strike action continues

Shortage of houses fuels higher prices in South West

Safe stolen from Tiverton building society

Art Show success for Exeter School artists

Exeter one of UK’s top 10 nuisance call hotspots

Chronic pain relief explored by Exeter academic in BBC documentary

Have your say on new Exeter Park and Ride

Brewin Dolphin Exeter post budget comments

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