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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...

BBC Radio Devon announces big changes to its line-up

New presenters have joined the station’s popular team in a fresh sound that aims to reflect the whole county.

Breakfast Show presenter Gordon Sparks is now joined by Laura James, waking Devon up from 6am to 9am every morning with interesting chat, news, sport, weather and travel.

Laura is known to early risers for her BBC Radio Devon show from 5am to 6am, which she continues to present. Before joining the station she presented breakfast shows across the West Country for Heart and Breeze.

She has been co-hosting the breakfast show for the last few weeks and has now...

Artists announced for Dartmoor Folk Festival

FUN for all the family is assured at the 42nd Dartmoor Folk Festival, all at modest prices or free-of-charge.

The festival, on Friday, Saturday and Sunday, August 9, 10 and 11, will take place in the foothills of Dartmoor at South Zeal, near Okehampton.

It will include a packed programme of events and activities suitable for all ages, including a hugely-successful dedicated children's festival which will run alongside the main event.

There will be concerts, a ceilidh, craft displays, dances, a Dartmoor Fayre, music hall, pub sessions and music, song and dance...

Rachel Sutton at Climate Change protest

Exeter aims to be carbon-neutral city by 2030

Exeter will strive to become a carbon-neutral city in just over a decade in an ambitious new vision adopted by the City Council.

Councillors recently backed a motion recognising the scale and urgency of the global challenge from climate change, and accepted that the City has a duty to act “quickly, collectively and concertedly” to avoid the worst of the predicted outcomes.

The bold commitment was made today (Friday 15 March) on a day of environmental protests across the country. Cllr Rachel Sutton, Lead Councillor with responsibility for the Low Carbon Task Force, met with...

New Rockfish restaurant is the PLAICE to be!

Authored by Marc Astley
Posted: Fri, 03/15/2019 - 6:23pm

When you ask a server in a restaurant where the scampi is from and you are given what amounts to a postcode, you know they know their stuff.

I was lucky enough to be invited to the launch of Rockfish in Exeter which, when it comes to the dining experience, (and here's the pun) is the plaice to be!

We were served with an array of delightful dishes including, spider crab croquettes, ceviche sardines, cuttlefish, oysters and scampi.

When the scampi tray came around, I was informed by the server that they would be the tastiest and juiciest I had ever experienced....

Communities to benefit from almost £3m investment in flood risk management

Authored by News Desk
Posted: Fri, 03/15/2019 - 6:55am

Almost £3 million will be invested in greater flood protection next year as part of Devon County Council’s Flood Risk Management Action Plan.

Councillors have (Wednesday 13 March) approved plans to target essential flood improvements in high-risk areas across Devon and increase the resilience of several communities.

Many of the schemes detailed in the plan are already underway or due to start in 2019, including surface water improvements in Sidmouth, Exeter and Ivybridge as well as major flood management construction work in Modbury.

Other proposed schemes include...

5 Tips for Choosing the Best Car Insurance

Authored by David Banks
Posted: Thu, 03/14/2019 - 4:42pm

Every year, more than 2 million people suffer from car accident related injuries . For this reason, car insurance and mandatory for all drivers because it protects you, your vehicle and everyone else on the road. However, choosing the right car insurance can be a difficult task. This review from MarketWatch can help you assess several things like the type of insurance coverage you need and how it could affect you. A little knowledge will take you a long way and help you in deciding what company and policies are best for you.

Keep reading this article for 5 tips on choosing the...

City-wide campaign to tackle air pollution launched in Exeter

Exeter City Futures - an independent Community Interest Company that is bringing local government, citizens and the private sector together to tackle Exeter's biggest challenges - have announced a new 12-month campaign, ‘Everyone’s Exeter’, to tackle air pollution in the city following the launch of the 12 Goals for Exeter.

The announcement comes following recent research that found that air pollution is killing more people every year than smoking.

‘Everyone’s Exeter’– launching next month – aims to raise awareness and orchestrate change around transport and energy...

Honiton Events Week launch

East Devon launches #inhoniton #HonitonEventsWeek

Authored by Mary Youlden
Posted: Thu, 03/14/2019 - 12:31pm

Local community invited to get active #inhoniton 25-31 May 2019 with free fun events and activities run by East Devon at Thelma Hulbert Gallery, Beehive, LED and in Honiton’s amazing green spaces, plus a discounted outdoor cinema screening Today, Wednesday 13 March 2019, East Devon District Council is proud to announce the launch of #HonitonEventsWeek (25-31 May 2019), a week-long celebration of Honiton’s cultural offer and wonderful green spaces, which will also give local people the chance to get involved in these places and to find out more about the opportunities available to them....

Exeter recognised for ambition and vision to create a great place for the future

The Greater Exeter area has been recognised as one of five places in England that has the vision and ambition to create great places for the future.

Greater Exeter was today (Wednesday 13 March) named as part of the Future Place programme. This initiative is intended to unlock placemaking potential through quality in design, future thinking and knowledge sharing.

The area will receive training and expert advice in helping to develop the Liveable Exeter Vision, which will see 12,000 new homes built within the city between 2020 and 2040, as well as supporting the wider...

Cllr Hannon steps down from City Council for family reasons

Authored by News Desk
Posted: Wed, 03/13/2019 - 1:52pm

Kate Hannan has today (Wednesday 13 March) resigned from her role as an Exeter City Councillor, with immediate effect, due to family reasons.

Cllr Hannan represented the Priory Ward.

A by-election will be held in the Priory Ward on 2 May, alongside the planned City Council elections.

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