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Forget Tom Top Gun Cruise – you can meet a real life Maverick when the former leader of the RAF’s most famous unit comes to Exeter.

Wing Commander Simon Meade O.B.E. is the former Commanding Officer and Team Leader of the Red Arrows Aerobatic Display Team.

He will be giving a talk and special presentation at Exeter School on Friday March 31 (7:30) to raise money for FORCE Cancer Charity.

Simon is an inspiring speaker who draws on his wealth of experience in delivering results in an environment where failure is not an option and mistakes costs lives.

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The University of Exeter and South West Water have marked the highest point of construction on a pioneering new facility, the Centre for Resilience in Environment, Water and Waste (CREWW) , at a Topping Out ceremony on Streatham Campus.

Due to be complete by Autumn 2023, the new centre brings together academics from the university with industry experts in South West Water to explore and co-design solutions to the most pressing challenges facing the water and waste sector in the South West, the UK and the world.

Part funded by a £10.5m UKRPIF grant from Research England...

Local independent housebuilder, 3 Rivers Developments Ltd, is celebrating a successful launch event for its highly anticipated development, St. George’s Court, just off Andrew’s Street in Tiverton.

The Open Weekend event which ran on 25th and 26th February provided prospective home buyers with the opportunity to take a private tour of the attractive new show houses and apartments, which offer far-reaching views across the River Exe to rolling countryside.

3 Rivers Developments welcomed visitors by appointment to St. George’s Court over the Open Weekend event, to see first-...

The number of people in Exeter forced to sleep on the streets or in vulnerable circumstances is set to soar, should major funding cuts proposed by Devon County Council go ahead.

Local charity, St Petrock’s, is warning of a homelessness crisis in the city on a scale not seen before.

Rough sleeping in Exeter doubled between 2021 and 2022, due to a range of factors, including service cuts, cost-of-living pressures and interest rate rises.

There are now typically around 30 people sleeping rough in and around the city, in addition to a very large number of people...