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Exeter Returns to City Category in South West in Bloom and Wins Gold

Exeter has proudly scooped a Gold Award at the South West in Bloom Awards, held in Torquay this week. This prestigious recognition follows months of dedicated preparation and showcases the exceptional planting and greening delivered across the city by InExeter BID, Exeter City Council, and the University of Exeter.

This year marked a significant milestone, as Exeter entered the competition as a unified city-wide application for the first time in several years.

This award is not the first recognition from South West in Bloom - previously, InExeter and University had...

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Family raises £10,000 for Samaritans to remember Danielle

A dozen members of an extended westcountry family have handed over a huge fundraising cheque to Samaritans.

The £10,000 donation - one of the largest ever made to the Exeter, Mid and East Devon branch of the charity - was raised to remember Danielle Cornish who died last summer after losing a battle with her mental health.

The handover took place outside the charity’s branch in central Exeter and involved Danielle’s parents Debbie and Steve, their daughter Tayde, and other family members from Ideford, Kingsteignton and Saltash.

The sum was raised chiefly through...

More tea Gromit? Wallace & Gromit collaborate with Bird & Blend Tea Co.

Multi Academy AwardⓇ-winning animation studio, Aardman , is celebrating 30 years since the launch of Wallace & Gromit: The Wrong Trousers, and to celebrate, independent tea company Bird & Blend Tea Co. has created Wallace’s every day cuppa, More Tea Gromit? , to help keep him and all Wallace & Gromit fans fuelled while creating their marvellous inventions.

In the words of Wallace, it’s always time to “Get the kettle on, lad,” and as More Tea Gromit? is a “cracking” flavour, full of energising ingredients, it's perfect for sparking inventive ideas as well as being the...

Hit dance show about the highs and lows of doing karaoke comes to Exeter

Hit dance show Empty Orchestra is coming to Exeter Phoenix on Tuesday 12th September as part of its UK tour, after sell-out shows in London and Yorkshire last year. Combining contemporary dance with live karaoke, Empty Orchestra is a hilarious hour of karaoke classics, beautiful choreography and gloriously out of tune singing.

From dance artist Lewys Holt’s company perfectly serviceable, Empty Orchestra explores the vulnerability, power and uncomfortable feelings of cringe inherent to karaoke. Featuring Holt and Luke Divall and Inari Hulkkonen, each dancer takes their turn at the...

Plans for over 60 sustainable homes approved in Exeter

Sovereign Housing has secured reserved matters approval for 68 affordable homes on land at Monkerton to the east of Cumberland Way, on the edge of Exeter.

Approval for the low-carbon development will see the association start work on its second development based on its new and more sustainable house type range.

The homes at Monkerton will benefit from an adaption of this new range of more sustainable home designs. These designs, which have been exclusively developed for Sovereign, will further enhance the health and wellbeing of future customers, and protect the...

Construction work begins for new affordable homes near Sandy Park

Construction work at Highgate Edge for 184 new affordable homes in Exeter has started.

Countryside Partnerships, the UK’s leading mixed-tenure developer, is building the new development in partnership with the UK’s leading Social Enterprise, Places for People.

Located on Ikea Way and adjacent to Sandy Park stadium, home of the Exeter Chiefs, the new development has been designed to be energy efficient, with photovoltaic panels on every home, as well as electric car charging points. These smart design features will help to achieve a minimum 10% reduction in carbon...

It’s a bug’s life! Local housebuilder offers FREE bug hunting kits for kids this summer

An Exeter housebuilder is encouraging the community to embrace the nature on their doorstep by offering free bug quest kits to local children.

Redrow South West is inviting local children to take part in ‘The Big Bug Quest’ competition and collect a free bug quest kit* from St Michael’s Meadow, on Chudleigh Road.

The kits, which are available to collect throughout August*, include wildflower seeds to help local wildlife to thrive, a magnifying glass, a bug tick-list, and a pair of ‘make-your-own’ binoculars.

The housebuilder is inviting local children to make...

Exeter’s historic buildings join forces to offer new school trips

Some of Exeter’s most historic buildings are teaming up to offer schoolchildren educational tours.

Exeter Cathedral has joined forces with Exeter’s historic Guildhall, St Nicholas Priory, the Royal Albert Memorial Museum and Art Gallery, and Exeter Custom House to offer new learning opportunities at the famous buildings.

Other historic buildings in the city, including Tucker’s Hall, Exeter Mosque and Exeter Synagogue are also getting involved in the initiative.

The partnership between the Cathedral and Exeter City Council will promote the historic locations to...

Devon homebuilder with heart-warming donation to CRY

Local homebuilder Barratt David Wilson Homes Exeter has recently donated £1,500 to Cardiac Risk in the Young (CRY), the leading provider of screening and cardiac testing for young people aged 14-35. The donation is part of the developers community fund initiative.

The Barratt Developments community fund initiative looks to support those causes which have a positive impact within their local communities. CRY has been providing specialist cardiac screening to young people and athletes since 1995. CRY has been working to reduce the frequency of young sudden cardiac death and...

Devon charity launches summer programme of free mental health support

Discover free mental health support for the Devon community this summer with BeWell@StepOne. Step One Charity is excited to announce the launch of its BeWell@StepOne summer programme, a valuable resource offering free group-based mental health support to people over the age of 18 across Devon. BeWell@StepOne empowers people to take control of their mental wellbeing through a range of online courses, workshops and peer support groups, as well as in-person sessions held in Paignton. Running from August to October 2023, the summer programme offers a variety of topics to support mental health...

Stagecoach South West announce timetable changes

From Sunday 3rd September 2023 Stagecoach South West are improving a number of bus services with new timetables introduced across the South West.

In Exeter, several bus services are enhanced and extra journeys introduced in partnership with Devon County Council and a number of high frequency bus corridors will be introduced.

In North Devon better connections are provided across Bideford and in South Devon, working with Devon County Council, the local bus operator has doubled the frequency of buses between Dartmouth and Totnes on service 92. Service 1A between Sherford...

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Exeter Returns to City Category in South West in Bloom and Wins Gold

Family raises £10,000 for Samaritans to remember Danielle

More tea Gromit? Wallace & Gromit collaborate with Bird & Blend Tea Co.

Hit dance show about the highs and lows of doing karaoke comes to Exeter

Plans for over 60 sustainable homes approved in Exeter

Construction work begins for new affordable homes near Sandy Park

It’s a bug’s life! Local housebuilder offers FREE bug hunting kits for kids this summer

Exeter’s historic buildings join forces to offer new school trips

Devon homebuilder with heart-warming donation to CRY

Devon charity launches summer programme of free mental health support

Stagecoach South West announce timetable changes

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