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From homelessness to hospitality: Café EX4, Exeter’s new lifeline

Five years ago, Dan was homeless, living in supported accommodation, and struggling with addiction and mental health challenges.

This month — the same week The Salvation Army in Exeter Temple celebrates its 145th anniversary — Dan stood alongside Majors Carl and Elizabeth Di-Palma who lead the church and charity in Exeter, to watch celebrity chef Michael Caines (MBE DL), cut the ribbon on Café EX4, a community café run by people with lived experience of homelessness, addiction, and neurodiversity.

Café EX4 operates under a licence agreement, making the café a tenant of...

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Cherie Lewis, Robert Taylor-Southall, Keyvan Nosrati, Anna Soter, Abigail Hicks and Gabrielle Peckham

Expanding independent tailor's move to the heart of the city is a cut above the rest!

Expanding independent tailoring specialists Zebel Bespoke, have relocated from Fore Street, Exeter to the heart of the city. The three-storey premises based on Waterbeer Street, formerly home to the Yankee Candle Shoppe, has had a major internal and external fit-out using local contractors with a significant investment of £35,000.

At street level is an extensive range of ready to wear clothing including menswear brands such as Marc Darcy, Skopes, and Torre, to name but a few. Upstairs you’ll find a lavish 1930’s Art Deco-style private studio where, in the ‘spirit’ of this iconic...

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Music lineup for the Exeter Festival of South West Food & Drink revealed

Authored by Mary Youlden
Posted: Tue, 03/10/2020 - 12:04pm

The foodie heaven celebration that is the Exeter Festival of South West Food & Drink returns this May 8th - 10th and this year is bringing the best of the local music scene to Exeter along for this exciting annual event.

The festival kicks off for all VIP guests & press on Thursday 7th May, with the gates opening for general ticket holders on Friday 8th May - this year’s early May Bank Holiday, making it the perfect place to celebrate the historic VE Day. For their lowest ticket price yet festival-goers can enjoy the best food, drink and music from around the South West....

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Music, Food, Drink and Shopping: Spring begins in Topsham

This event has been POSTPONED due to Coronavirus and will now take place on Saturday 26 September 2020. -------------------------------------

Spring isn’t just about daffodils and longer days – it’s also about one of the biggest events of the year in a glorious part of Devon.

Spring Forward Saturday on Saturday March 28 is a feel-good family-friendly day of music, shopping, food and drink taking place across the Exe estuary town of Topsham.

Almost all Topsham’s 50 shops, cafés and restaurants are involved with special offers for visitors and locals - one store...

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How to stay fit in college

Are you getting anxious about every other pound you’ve gained since the start of this semester? If so, it may actually be a good thing. Taking late-night eating, drinking soda, and binge-watching TV in your free time into account, weight gain is the only expected outcome. Now is the right moment to make your body feel good and look fine. Here are a few realistic tips on what an average student can do to keep fit in college.

Put the right food in your fridge

The purpose of a diet is not to starve but to eat good food. A common misconception says that a diet only limits your eating...

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New partnership will clamp down on fly tipping and litter

Authored by News Desk
Posted: Mon, 03/09/2020 - 10:07pm

Devon has launched a new multi-agency task force to combat fly tipping. Many of the county’s leading agencies will be working together in a crime-busting partnership known as the Clean Devon task force.

In a pioneering move designed to draw a line under fly tipping in Devon, Plymouth and Torbay, many of the county's leading agencies have come together to launch a new Clean Devon task force.

The partnership is sending a clear message to fly tippers that their behaviour will not be tolerated.

It brings together for the first time organisations from across Devon,...

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Freemasons donate £1000 to Tiverton Hospice

This year as part of their annual support of hospices throughout the country the Assistant Provincial Grand Master of Devonshire W. Bro. Craig Cox can be seen presenting a certificate denoting the £1000 given on behalf of the Devonshire Freemasons and the Masonic Charitable Foundation to Carey MacKenzie, Chris Webber and Julie Morris at Hospiscare’s Pine Lodge Day Hospice in Tiverton.

The Masonic Charitable Foundation will this year give grants totalling £600,000 to the 245 hospices in England and Wales, including £7,635 to seven hospices here in Devon as part of the £13.4 million...

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Sudhir Choudhrie featured on "The Dr. Oz Show"

It's not every day that a person gets a second chance at life. However, that's exactly what Sudhir Choudhrie got more than 20 years ago when he underwent a complicated emergency heart transplant performed by Dr. Mehmet Oz, the popular television personality who is also a renowned heart surgeon. Choudhrie, who had struggled with heart disease for most of his life, received a new heart at Columbia Medical Center in New York City. He recovered completely and has thrived over the past two decades.

Since his transplant, Choudhrie has made it his life's work to give back to the community...

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Is There a Way to Stop Receiving Cold Calls?

Authored by David Banks
Posted: Mon, 03/09/2020 - 2:39pm

The occasional random cold call every full moon may not be the worst thing in the world, but when you get called every day multiple times, it means that the situation has become a big problem. Receiving a cold call instead of the call you were waiting for a long time can ruin your mood. Companies of such intrusive nature, have even upgraded their arsenal and they’re using pre-recorded messages that play once you answer. It’s quite disorienting trying to understand how all the new and modern methods of marketing have simply ceased to exist in the same dimension that companies who still cold...

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Is There a Way to Stop Receiving Cold Calls?

Authored by David Banks
Posted: Mon, 03/09/2020 - 2:31pm

The occasional random cold call every full moon may not be the worst thing in the world, but when you get called every day multiple times, it means that the situation has become a big problem. Receiving a cold call instead of the call you were waiting for a long time can ruin your mood. Companies of such intrusive nature, have even upgraded their arsenal and they’re using pre-recorded messages that play once you answer. It’s quite disorienting trying to understand how all the new and modern methods of marketing have simply ceased to exist in the same dimension that companies who still cold...

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TEDxExeter 2020 cancelled due to coronavirus

It is with great sadness that we have made the extremely difficult decision to postpone this year’s TEDxExeter event.

More than 900 people, including speakers and attendees from overseas, were due to join us at the Exeter Northcott and the university’s Alumni Auditorium on Friday, April 17.

Since our recent launch event, a growing number of cases of Coronavirus have been confirmed in the UK, including Devon. TEDxExeter is a unique day of human connection and stimulating conversations, but, during times like these, gatherings of large numbers of people bring risk.

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