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Exeter Racecourse partners with ELF to launch Festive Gifting Programme

Exeter Racecourse is delighted to announce a new partnership with The Exeter Leukaemia Fund (ELF) for ELF Raceday, taking place on Friday 5th December 2025.

Through this collaboration, ELF and Exeter Racecourse will launch a special gifting programme aimed at bringing joy to children and families supported by the charity during the Festive season.

Exeter Racecourse will support ELF’s work by gifting toys to children who are patients or family members affected by blood cancers and blood disorders. Racegoers, owners, trainers, jockeys and the local community are being...

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CEDA member and Lisa Hudson of Exeter Northcott Theatre

The Possible Arts Festival, Exeter

A mini festival of arts & disability at Exeter venues, 22-27 April

Venues across Exeter will feature the work of disabled artists during The Possible Arts Festival .

Organised by CEDA(Community Equality Disability Action) in partnership with Exeter venues, the mini festival includes an exhibition, theatre performance and drop-in workshops for disabled and non-disabled participants.

The festival will showcase some of the work created during CEDA’s Arts Council funded projects working with professional and emerging disabled artists and creating opportunities for...

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Stroke patients benefit from new garden at the RD&E

Patients on the Acute Stroke Unit at the Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Foundation Trust are now able to relax in a new, upgraded garden.

Work began on the garden in Autumn 2018 on the Acute Stroke Unit, otherwise known as Clyst Ward, to convert the area from a space that was not easily accessible or beneficial to the recovery of patients, into an area which improves overall wellbeing and that patients can enjoy. The garden is now easily accessible from the ward with a wide range of brightly coloured plants in raised flower beds for patients, staff and visitors to enjoy.

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Stagecoach South West celebrates 95% customer satisfaction

Recent research by independent consumer watchdog, Transport Focus has revealed that local bus company, Stagecoach South West has an amazing 95% customer satisfaction rating.

The independent research shows that 88% of bus passengers in England are satisfied with their journey. However, customer satisfaction in Stagecoach South West is even higher with 95% reporting they were satisfied with the service.

These great results follow significant investment by Stagecoach South West to help transform bus travel to make the service more customer friendly, by delivering more...

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Jessops in Exeter has opened its doors to a brand new store concept which is the first of its kind on a UK high-street.

A brand new Jessops photo store concept is coming to Exeter

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Posted: Tue, 04/16/2019 - 10:50pm

The photo revolution is coming to Exeter! Jessops on High Street has unveiled a new retail environment that’s all about setting your photos free.

Jessops’ new store in Exeter has officially opened this week with this exceptional new store set to fully embrace the photo revolution. Shoppers will discover exciting new photo printing creativity corners. What’s more, a team of ‘photosmiths’ will be on hand to help you get the most out of your photos, offering expert advice on how to see them free.

Jessops has seen a huge rise in the number of photos that are being taken by...

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Emergency services unite to tackle #unacceptable abuse on staff

Emergency services from across the South West are working together to highlight the unacceptable rise of violence and abuse towards their 999 Emergency Control hub staff, with the continuation of the #Unacceptable campaign. With Easter being one of the busiest times of the year for emergency staff, the services are expecting a sharp increase in incident calls over the holiday period with many extra visitors to the region. Police, ambulance, fire and healthcare staff are regularly subjected to attacks including serious injury, verbal abuse, spitting and biting, and even sexual assault from...

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Exeter Chiefs players Olly Woodburn and Tom Lawday, sponsored by Coastal Recycling joined Richard Marsh from Coastal Recycling and Gary Jolliffe the founder of Till the Coast is Clear at the picturesque Blackness Marine near Dartmouth to collect hard-to-reach plastic waste.

Exeter Chiefs players switch try line for shore line

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Posted: Tue, 04/16/2019 - 3:21pm

Till the Coast is Clear is a Social Enterprise working with businesses such as Coastal Recycling. Its focus is to clear the hard to reach places along our coastlines of plastic and rubbish that otherwise would go un-seen and un-touched.

With the sun shining and not a cloud in the sky Exeter Chiefs players Olly Woodburn and Tom Lawday, sponsored by Coastal Recycling joined Richard Marsh from Coastal Recycling and Gary Jolliffe the founder of Till the Coast is Clear at the picturesque Blackness Marine near Dartmouth.

Boarding the specialist vehicle ‘Coast Clear One’ the team...

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100 years of bus travel in Devon celebrated with Devon General staff reunion

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Posted: Tue, 04/16/2019 - 7:25am

The Devon General Society and Stagecoach South West are teaming up to commemorate 100 years of bus travel in the region.

The Devon General Omnibus and Touring Company started bus operations in South and East Devon in 1919, with the first route between Exeter and Torquay still going strong today. To commerate a century of bus travel, and celebrate this landmark anniversary, the Devon General Society and Stagecoach are delivering a programme of exciting local events.

Paul Jenkins of the Devon General Society, said: ‘’The Devon General was formed in 1919 before the age of mass...

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Devon church offers a new way to explore faith 

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Posted: Mon, 04/15/2019 - 2:49pm

A church in Exeter is launching a new afternoon service and is inviting people of all ages and backgrounds to come and explore the Christian faith, perhaps for the first time.

Rediscover Church in Northernhay Street, Exeter already has 2 morning services on a Sunday at 9.30am and 11.30am welcoming hundreds of people from all walks of life through its doors. They also stream live online to a local and international audience.

Now they are launching a new 2.30pm service, beginning 28th April, where there is an opportunity for people to come along and explore the big questions...

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Exceptional Exeter tops apprenticeship table - bucking national trend

Exeter College - the city’s largest provider of Apprenticeships - is thanking employers and partners for playing a key part in the city’s brilliant Apprenticeship growth, bucking a national trend.

The city of Exeter topped the table as only one of a small handful of cities that bucked a national decline in Apprenticeship starts, according to a report published by the Centre for Cities, a leading think tank.

Exeter College has played a significant part in this success story with more than a thousand starts in year. The next biggest provider contributed 100 starts to the...

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Artists invited to apply for Exeter Contemporary Open 2019

Established in 2006, Exeter Contemporary Open has come to be recognised as one of the UK’s most prominent regional contemporary arts competitions, culminating in an annual exhibition at Exeter Phoenix. Exeter Contemporary Open provides an important national platform for contemporary visual art, with an emphasis on supporting emerging talent alongside more established artists many of whom have gone on to receive significant national and international acclaim.

Applications are now open for 2019’s exhibition, which will run from 20th September – 10th November. This opportunity is open...

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