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Gandy Street is the place to be on the First Thursdays of the month this summer

First Thursdays is a new event you won’t want to miss.

From June to September, Gandy Street will come alive on the first Thursday of each month, with a festival atmosphere in the early evening.

The first event takes place on Thursday 4 June, 5–8pm. Expect late-night shopping, live music, street entertainment, extended opening hours at cultural venues and a cocktail trail. All your favourite businesses on Gandy Street and in the surrounding area will be open, including:

Boston Tea Party : Will be hosting an indoor market with Circular Social, featuring

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Women in science award for university department

The Department of Sport and Health Sciences (St Luke’s Campus) has been awarded an Athena SWAN Silver Award, recognising its commitment to advancing the careers of women in science through addressing gender inequality, tackling unequal gender representation across the student and staff population and improving career progression for female academics.

Sport and Health Sciences is the first department from the College of Life and Environmental Sciences to be awarded Silver under the new ‘Post May 2015’ Athena SWAN criteria.

This offers a more robust framework for enhancing...

Exeter mum hopes to help others with new book

A successful novelist from Exeter has just published her very own love story – and she hopes it will inspire others to find wisdom, peace and happiness.

Mother-of-two Catherine Harman wrote two gripping thrillers after relocating to Devon from her native Lancashire at the turn of the century to buy and run a convenience store.

The former computer programmer’s new surroundings inspired her to write the sensational five-star novels, What the Butler Saw and the sequel Rupert’s Unravelling.

Now, more than a year on, Catherine turned her attentions to telling her own...

15th South West Chef of the Year competition open for entries

The 2018 prestigious South West Chef of the Year is open for applications to showcase the excellence in the South West’s hospitality industry. Now in its 15th year, the highly anticipated culinary contest aims to find the very best regional talent for five different categories. Lead judge and co-founder Michael Caines MBE of Lympstone Manor champions the cooking competition which offers aspiring chefs, those already working in the industry and home cooks the opportunity to gain recognition for their culinary skill and creativity. Past competitors have used the experience gained during the...

Views wanted on Stover Country Park Heritage Lottery Fund application

Funding bid proposals to improve visitor facilities at Stover Country Park are to go on show this weekend (Saturday 30 June and Sunday 1 July).

Devon County Council is preparing to apply to the Heritage Lottery Fund to help restore the park’s historic heritage and improve visitor facilities over the next five years.

Key elements of the project include restoring Stover Lake to a healthy water body by removing contaminated silt, restoring two Grade Two listed buildings, creating new footpaths and walking routes for visitors and the possible provision of a café.

The...

Riverford founder to guest on BBC Desert Island Discs

A true revolutionary veg nerd, Guy Singh-Watson has spent the last 30 years taking Riverford from one man and a wheelbarrow delivering homegrown organic veg to friends, to a national veg box scheme making 50,000 deliveries a week.

On Sunday 1st July, he’ll be talking about the remarkable story behind Riverford and his life in organic food and farming with presenter Kirsty Young on BBC Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs. Guy decided to sell direct to customers through the now iconic Riverford veg box after being poorly treated by unscrupulous supermarket buyers and wholesalers in the...

When life gives you lemons: Remember it could be worse!

Life can be tough, everyone knows that, but sometimes people can make it more difficult on themselves than it should be. There is enough to get you down in this life without bringing yourself down as well. Whether it be the loss of a loved one, a heartbreak or having financial issues, there are plenty of things that are out of your control which can bring you down.

In these situations, it’s important to look for the support that you need. If you need help then you should be talking about it instead of keeping it all inside. Sometimes though in life, you can get yourself down as we...

Should students in the UK start marketing their business ideas while still in university?

Shоuld ѕtudеntѕ in thе UK ѕtаrt marketing thеіr buѕіnеѕѕ іdеаѕ while ѕtіll іn university? Arе уоu a college student whо саn’t wаіt tо bесоmе a business оwnеr? Thеn whу wаіt? If you hаvе the еntrерrеnеurіаl ѕріrіt, thеrе іѕ nо rеаѕоn уоu hаvе tо wаіt untіl after grаduаtіоn tо launch уоur buѕіnеѕѕ.

Starting a buѕіnеѕѕ, whіlе іn college саn bе еxсіtіng аnd nеrvе-wrасkіng аt the same tіmе. On thе оnе hаnd, уоu have аll the rеѕоurсеѕ аnd support уоu’ll еvеr nееd tо ѕtаrt uр. However, оn thе оthеr hаnd, уоur ѕсhооl work саn bе unрrеdісtаblе аnd hаrd tо manage. Sоmе сhооѕе tо...

That's snuff to bring tears to your eyes

St. Michaels Masonic Lodge who meet in Barton Terrace, Dawlish six times of year, from November to April are a fine dining lodge who, after sampling the delights of their chef Angie puts before them relax with a pinch of snuff.

Now anyone who has ever sampled snuff will know that it can lead to a bout of sneezing, if this is the case you will definitely need to blow your nose, to this end as part of their charitable giving the charity steward sells them hankies embroidered with the emblem of the lodge (as seen in the photo).

The result has been that that this year they have...

New beginning for Tar Barrel end

Calling ‘time’ has a new meaning at the Volunteer Inn in Ottery St Mary, as landlords Mike and Jacqui Down are now the proud owners of a unique clock - created from the end of a flaming tar barrel.

The barrel was carried by Mike in the 2014 Tar Barrels event. At the end of the night and despite being scorched by fire, the barrel end remained intact. Local Tar Barrels Committee ‘legend’ Les White held on to the barrel end, which weighs around 30 kilos, while he decided what to do with it.

Eventually, Les found a clockface of approximately the right dimensions. He trimmed it...

Shrouds of the Somme returns to Exeter

Shrouds of the Somme returns to Exeter’s Northernhay Gardens on Saturday (30 June), two years after its original installation moved thousands of visitors.

The 2018 exhibition, which runs until Sunday 8 July, takes the form of a ‘Trench’. It marks 100 years since the end of the First World War and will see 72,396 shrouded figures stacked – one on top of another – in a free-standing wooden representation of a trench, alongside which visitors will be able to walk and view the names of all those killed in Britain’s bloodiest battle, who have no known grave.

The ‘Trench’ is the...

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Gandy Street is the place to be on the First Thursdays of the month this summer

Women in science award for university department

Exeter mum hopes to help others with new book

15th South West Chef of the Year competition open for entries

Views wanted on Stover Country Park Heritage Lottery Fund application

Riverford founder to guest on BBC Desert Island Discs

When life gives you lemons: Remember it could be worse!

Should students in the UK start marketing their business ideas while still in university?

That's snuff to bring tears to your eyes

New beginning for Tar Barrel end

Shrouds of the Somme returns to Exeter

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