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Ocean Film Festival World Tour dives into Devon

All aboard for a big-screen ocean adventure! The Ocean Film Festival World Tour is bringing a new collection of thrilling ocean-themed films to venues around the UK this autumn.

Starring gripping ocean adventures and mesmerising marine-life, the Ocean Film Festival showcases the wonder and power of the sea, through a selection of short films from around the world.

“The Ocean Film Festival is more than just a film event; it’s a celebration of our planet’s blue heart,” says tour director Nell Teasdale. “The festival aims to inspire a deeper connection with the sea,...

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Osteo and Physio group goes from strength to strength

A private health clinic - which began with a single practitioner - has become the largest of its kind in the south west in just seven years, delivering more than 1,000 hours of patient treatments every month.

The Osteo and Physio group continues to grow by about 20 - 25% a year, and has now opened branches in Exeter and Tiverton, alongside its Cullompton clinic.

The company, which was established in 2009 by Osteopath Jonathan Boxall, helps people relieve back, joint and muscle pain and other conditions through a range of manual therapies. It now has 15 practitioners working...

Second Sunday volunteering: Past, present and future

Conservation volunteers who help maintain one of Dartmoor’s top beauty spots have rounded off their year with an expert guided tour and mince pies.

The Second Sunday group meets every second Sunday of the month at Haytor under the guidance of National Park Authority Ranger Simon Lee.

In the past 12 months they have repaired an ancient leat to prevent flooding on the road near the Visitor Centre and restored wetland by the Becka Brook to safeguard the feeding grounds of the rare marsh fritillary butterfly.

Perhaps the volunteers’ most obvious work has been on the 200...

Nominate your sporting heroes

For clubs, coaches and community sports people alike, the Devon Sports Awards is a prestigious annual event which celebrates their hard work and achievement across a number of different categories.

This year marks a special landmark for the Devon Sports Awards which are 20 years old. To celebrate, there will be a glittering ceremony on June 30th 2017 with a sporting hero as guest speaker.. Nominations are now open and the organisers of the Devon Sports Awards, Active Devon, The Exeter Foundation and Exeter College are urging people to make sure that they use the opportunity to see...

Seaton Jurassic hails successful first year

A new East Devon visitor attraction is celebrating a successful 2016 – its first year of opening.

Owned by East Devon District Council and operated by the charity Devon Wildlife Trust, Seaton Jurassic first opened its doors to the paying public in April. Since then it has welcomed more than 40,000 visitors to its unique visitor experience, café and shop.

The success of Seaton Jurassic hasn’t gone unnoticed. The attraction, which takes visitors on a journey back through time to a Jurassic World of lost creatures and ancient ancestors, gained second place in the ‘Best UK Day-...

Exeter Rainbow Run is now at Westpoint!

With a brand new location for 2017, the Children’s Hospice South West (CHSW) Rainbow Run at Westpoint Arena, looks set to be the charity’s best ever.

With a full event village planned with music and entertainment, this year’s run is definitely a family day out with a difference. Jayne Jarrett, events fundraiser at CHSW said: ‘We simply love our Rainbow Run as it is such a fun event, children from five are able to take part making it a really great family experience. We are thrilled to be able to bring this event to Westpoint and with so much planned for our event village, this is...

Chiefs fans up for bravery award

Two Exeter Chiefs fans who rescued a woman from the River Avon while celebrating the New Year in Bath are to be commended with a bravery award.

Mark Burdis and Lisa Haynes are to receive the Royal Humane Society Award after coming to the woman's aid at around 1am on New Year's Day.

The couple, from Torquay, had travelled to Bath to watch Exeter Chiefs' win over Bath in the rugby before spending the evening in the city for the New Year celebrations.

They were walking along the towpath back to their hotel when they came across a woman struggling in the water.

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Microgaming plans for 2017

Microgaming plans for 2017 are fairly extensive. This is a company that is still a leader in the market that it helped create in the first place. Microgaming is responsible for many of the developments in online casino gaming, even in addition to the fact that they are largely credited with creating online casino gaming in the first place. They helped to pioneer the progressive casino jackpot and many other popular games that are still in use today. This is certainly a company that is going to have a lot of plans for 2017.

For one thing, Microgaming is going to expand when it comes...

Exeter residents invited to become Dementia Friends Champions

People in Exeter, and the surrounding area, are being given the opportunity to make a difference to the lives of local people with dementia by becoming Dementia Friends Champions. People can book now to attend a touring induction day that is coming to the city on Tuesday 7 February.

The day-long session, that will take place at Sidwell’s Community Centre, is part of Alzheimer’s Society Dementia Friends programme, which is the biggest ever initiative to change people’s perceptions of dementia. It aims to transform the way the nation acts, thinks and talks about the condition....

National top spot for Exeter Cathedral School Pupil

A pupil at Exeter Cathedral School has been awarded a place in the prestigious National Children’s Orchestra of Great Britain.

Rufus Hetherington, who is in Year 7 at ECS and a Chorister at Exeter Cathedral, has earned himself a spot in the French Horn section of the elite GB orchestra.

Rufus, who has been a pupil at the School since he was 8 and who studies French Horn at the School, said he was ‘really pleased’ to have made the grade and that he was looking forward to the challenge of working alongside some ‘amazing players’.

Headmaster of Exeter Cathedral School...

Coastal tourism opportunities and challenges is the focus at conference

Coastal and marine tourism in the South West will be the focus of the Devon Maritime Forum’s Winter17 Conference next week.

Entitled ‘Selling the Seaside; Opportunities and Challenges for Marine and Coastal Tourism in South West England’ the conference takes place on Tuesday January 10 2017 at The Devon Hotel, Exeter.

The conference will bring together a range of national and regional tourism industry experts and business leaders and will feature speakers from the National Coastal Tourism Academy, British Hospitality Association, Visit England and the new Visit Devon....

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Ocean Film Festival World Tour dives into Devon

Osteo and Physio group goes from strength to strength

Second Sunday volunteering: Past, present and future

Nominate your sporting heroes

Seaton Jurassic hails successful first year

Exeter Rainbow Run is now at Westpoint!

Chiefs fans up for bravery award

Microgaming plans for 2017

Exeter residents invited to become Dementia Friends Champions

National top spot for Exeter Cathedral School Pupil

Coastal tourism opportunities and challenges is the focus at conference

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