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Devon Young Carers shine at the 2025 Young Carers Festival

Seventeen young carers from across Devon have enjoyed a well-deserved break from their caring responsibilities at the largest festival in the world dedicated to young people with unpaid caring roles.

It’s the 25th year that Devon Young Carers has attended the Young Carers Festival at YMCA Fairthorne Manor at Botley in Hampshire. Four dedicated staff members, one volunteer, and one inspiring Adult Young Carer accompanied them on a two-night adventure packed with connection, laughter, and discovery - a well-deserved break from their day-to-day caring roles at home.

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Operation Close Pass comes to Exeter

Education and enforcement to encourage respect for all road users On Wednesday 20th September, the Devon & Cornwall and Dorset Police Alliance roads policing team carried out the first deployment of Operation Close Pass in Exeter, with the support of the Police and Crime Commissioner, Devon County Council and local and national cycling groups.

The chosen location, acting on local intelligence from cyclists, was a busy stretch of Cowley Bridge Road (A377) near the Steiner Academy which undercover police cyclists rode along from 8.30am to 11.30AM. This road also provided a safe...

Four local firms team up to support YMCA Exeter at the Great West Run

On Sunday 15th October, running enthusiasts from around the county will be taking part in the infamous Great West Run - an exciting 13.1 mile route taking runners through the heart of Exeter city centre.

This year, four local businesses, Attention Media, Burrington Estates, Wilkinson Grant & Co and Expedite, are rallying together to become the ultimate running dream team, collectively raising money for YMCA Exeter at the Great West Run.

With the hope of raising £1,200, the funds will support the vital work YMCA Exeter provides to the local community.

The charity...

In Turbulent Times: Be a Quaker

Every year, Quakers in Britain organise a ‘Quaker Week’ – a time to focus on the core principles of Quaker belief and practice and to reach out to the surrounding community to publicise those beliefs and the work that arises from them, as well as to engage with people of all faiths and none to encourage a discussion of our world and its issues.

The theme of Quaker Week this year is “In Turbulent Times: be a Quaker”

What do Quakers say?

There is something sacred in all people
All people are equal before God
Religion is about the whole of

International blind adventurer comes to Exeter

A world record breaker and blind adventurer is to share his inspiring story at a big church event in Exeter.

Rediscover Church is to host a special free event called New Day at the University of Exeter’s Great Hall on October 8th, a venue which seats 1450 people.

The event is set to have a buzzing atmosphere, with contemporary and vibrant worship and inspiring stories of hope, including special guest Miles Hilton-Barber who has completed extreme endurance events across 7 continents of the world.

The event is an exciting and ambitious venture for the church which...

Lidl to create up to 500 jobs at new Exeter Gateway RDC

Lidl UK has announced that its new Exeter RDC, which is due to open this November, will create up to 500 full and part-time jobs for the South West.

Recruitment has already begun as the company aims to recruit local talent for a number of different roles, including warehouse operatives and desk clerks, kitchen assistants and porters to work in the catering team, with jobs currently being advertised on the company’s careers website.

Lidl UK currently has a 20,000 strong workforce across England, Scotland and Wales. In October 2015 the supermarket became the first to...

Dates announced for The Exeter Art Show

“Delighted” YoungMinds confirmed as charity partner

The Maynard School is once again delighted to be hosting and organising the fantastically popular Exeter Art Show from Friday 20 – Sunday 22 April 2018 and all lovers of art are being urged to put the date in their diaries now to avoid disappointment!

With over 150 locally and nationally recognised exhibitors, including Royal Academicians (RAs), and free entry to the general public, this is one of the largest art exhibitions of its kind in the West Country. The Show always includes a vast choice of media and The Maynard...

£500,000 for dementia brain research at Exeter

Alzheimer’s Research UK (ARUK) has announced more than £500,000 in funding for researchers at the University of Exeter Medical School to advance understanding of how dementia affects the brain.

Announced on World Alzheimer’s Day (Thursday September 21), the charity is investing a total of £577,000 in three leading researchers, to look at different aspects of the cause and progression of dementia.

Professor Clive Ballard, Executive Dean of the University of Exeter Medical School, and a leading dementia researcher, said: “Dementia is key area of our research focus at Exeter,...

Hospiscare@Home Nurses 'Absolute Angels'

Hospiscare@Home, the new service bringing the expertise of the hospice into the home for residents in and around Budleigh Salterton, Exmouth, Lympstone and Woodbury, has received touching feedback about one of the first patients to use the service.

Earlier this year, Katie, who lived on her own in East Budleigh, was diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumour and given the prognosis that she had 3 months left to live.

Her best friend Alice explains further: “We knew at the end of 2016 that something wasn’t quite right. Katie and I have been best friends for years but I live...

New hopes for limiting warming to 1.5°C

Significant emission reductions are required if we are to achieve one of the key goals of the Paris Agreement, and limit the increase in global average temperatures to 1.5°C, a new study warns.

In a collaboration involving the University of Exeter, the University of Oxford, University College London and several other national and international partners, researchershave investigated the geophysical likelihood of limiting global warming to “well below 2°C above pre-industrial levels and pursuing efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5°C.”

Published in the journal...

Have your say on new proposals for council tax support in East Devon

East Devon residents are being asked to have their say on how much the council should pay towards the council tax bills of working age householders on low incomes who live in the district.

Earlier this month East Devon District Council began a six week consultation about proposed changes to the working-age Council Tax Reduction Scheme which sets out a framework on how much council tax support can be claimed by these households. The council reviews the reduction scheme every year.

This year, the council is consulting on making three changes to the scheme and the proposed...

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Devon Young Carers shine at the 2025 Young Carers Festival

Operation Close Pass comes to Exeter

Four local firms team up to support YMCA Exeter at the Great West Run

In Turbulent Times: Be a Quaker

International blind adventurer comes to Exeter

Lidl to create up to 500 jobs at new Exeter Gateway RDC

Dates announced for The Exeter Art Show

£500,000 for dementia brain research at Exeter

Hospiscare@Home Nurses 'Absolute Angels'

New hopes for limiting warming to 1.5°C

Have your say on new proposals for council tax support in East Devon

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