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Entries now open for the RSPCA’s Walk on the Wild Side challenge

Wildlife lovers are being invited to sign up for the RSPCA’s autumn active fundraising event ‘ Walk on the Wild Side ’.

The event invites participants across England and Wales to complete a walking challenge throughout October.

The fundraising challenge comes at a critical time for the charity as it reveals that last October (2024) was its busiest month for hedgehogs in the last five years*, and also marks the beginning of ‘seal pup season’ - when the RSPCA’s wildlife hospitals also typically see a spike in grey seals admitted as orphans, or struggling to feed and are...

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Hurricane-force winds to hit South West

The Met Office warned that hurricane strength winds of up to 80mph will hit the South West again today to again test the regions already battered storm defences.

In the fifth consecutive day of extreme weather conditions the public has been told to prepare for even more flooding, transport disruption and power outages across Devon.

The winds will reach their peak at mid-day today as the weather system pass over the county but potential hail storms and heavy rain can still be expected until much later in the day.

Speaking after his return from the South West...

Conservation project turns the city wild

An Exeter-based conservation project has spent the winter months working with local communities to produce a greener city.

Exeter Wild City, a joint project between Devon Wildlife Trust and Exeter City Council, has had a busy winter preparing for the approaching spring. In the last few months more than thousand local people have helped to plant over 1,000 trees, create 10 orchards and plant 10 new wildflower meadows.

The work promises to provide new colour in some of Exeter’s green spaces. It is also establishing new sources of natural food for important pollinators such as...

Teams needed for Pancake World Championship

Princesshay will host the inaugural World Pancake Racing Championships on Shrove Tuesday (4 March).

Local businesses, organisations and individuals are now being invited to demonstrate their pancake flipping credentials by entering a team of between two and four members.

The Pancake World Championship is a partnership between local Event Management company Wacky Nation and Princesshay, to raise funds for local charity Dream-A-Way, Princesshay’s charity of the year for 2014. It will be hosted by Radio Exe.

The relay race involves each team member running along a...

The Day We Played Brazil Auditions Kick Off

People from all over Exeter gathered at St James’ Park yesterday as the first workshop auditions for the upcoming musical The Day We Played Brazil got underway.

Exeter Community Arts Project is looking for 120 people to be part of the project which is set to be the biggest cultural event in Exeter for many years.

Hopefuls as young as 11 took part in the workshop auditions which involved playing drama games, singing songs from the show, dancing, and acting parts of the script in large groups.

Kate Tyrrell, Producer of The Day We Played Brazil said: “It was great to...

East Devon Clear up to take at least six weeks

Repair and clear-up work after damage from the latest storms is expected to take at least six weeks according to East Devon District Council.

Collapsing beach huts, damaged seafronts and a washed away ice cream parlour have all been handled by Council staff in the recent work to clear the damage left by weeks of severe weather conditions.

However, with more strong gales and heavy rain expected to hit the county late tonight and throughout the day tomorrow bringing the risk of further damage, the clear-up work may take even longer than expected.

The Met Office’s...

The Bike Shed Theatre need some BUD-ies

We are only a little theatre so we are looking for some volunteer BUD-ies to help us with the publicity campaign for our Spring Season brochure!

To those unfamiliar with the Bike Shed Theatre, we’re where the theatre makers of tomorrow start their journeys. We give them space to test ideas, to develop new work and to proudly show it to the world. Well, to Exeter. It’s a place to try something new, to take a chance on the unexpected and be pleasantly surprised by the outcomes.

We are asking our BUD-ies to help us to distribute our Spring brochures in and around Exeter. We...

Wages must double to keep up with House Prices

Most people earning average wages in the South West would need to more than double their annual salary just to keep up with out of control house prices, new research by homelessness charity Shelter shows. In the study, released today, the charity looked at wage and house price inflation since 1997 in every area of the region. This was then used to calculate what average annual earnings would be if they had risen at the same rate as house prices. The charity argues that as the disparity between house prices and wages is keeping a generation of people out of the market. “When you’d need to...

Ironbridge Runner Events: Exeter Half Marathon

Ironbridge Runner owner Pete Ferlie and his team are well known for promoting fun and innovative running events, with the latest promotion being their very popular annual Exeter Half Marathon on Sunday 16 February 2014 and which sold out its 350 available places weeks beforehand.

Flooding permitting (an alternative course is ready to be used if necessary) the race is held over a great 3 lap traffic free and pancake flat half course on footpaths and cycle tracks around the River Exe and Exeter Canal. The event is suitable for people chasing personal bests as well as for novice...

Campaign urges the South West to talk more

The number of us taking the time to sit and chat with someone close is dwindling, according to new research from the mental health anti-stigma programme Time to Change, which shows that nearly two thirds of people (59%) in the South West admit they should talk to family and friends more often than they currently do.

The findings were released on the first ever national Time to Talk Day (6 February) which aimed to spark one million conversations about mental health.

Exploring how often we’re having conversations, the poll reveals only around a third (31%) of people ask their...

MP backs ivory crush ahead of London summit on illegal wildlife trade

Neil Parish, MP for Tiverton and Honiton, joined the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) on Monday 10 February as the charity crushed hundreds of items of unwanted ivory to help protect elephants from the deadly ivory trade.

IFAW destroyed around 100kgs of ivory items ranging from whole elephant tusks to carvings and jewellery in spectacular fashion in London to raise awareness of the ivory trade and show support for elephant protection ahead of a major international summit on the issue.

Alarmingly, an elephant is killed every 15 minutes for its ivory. It is...

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Entries now open for the RSPCA’s Walk on the Wild Side challenge

Hurricane-force winds to hit South West

Conservation project turns the city wild

Teams needed for Pancake World Championship

The Day We Played Brazil Auditions Kick Off

East Devon Clear up to take at least six weeks

The Bike Shed Theatre need some BUD-ies

Wages must double to keep up with House Prices

Ironbridge Runner Events: Exeter Half Marathon

Campaign urges the South West to talk more

MP backs ivory crush ahead of London summit on illegal wildlife trade

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