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Tipton. Burton upon Stather. South Shields. If you are drawing up a mental map of Britain's bingo heartland, the South West barely registers. According to a new study ranking the UK's most bingo-obsessed locations by online search volume, the first place that could be considered anywhere near this part of the country does not appear until position 25. For Exeter, the picture is even quieter.

The findings, examined by Bookies.com, home of the top online casinos , analysed Google Trends data for the term 'bingo' and five related search phrases across every corner of the UK over the...

Laura Bates, the Sunday Times bestselling author and activist who founded the Everyday Sexism project, is coming to Exeter Library on 2nd July to do a talk on AI and how it is reshaping sexism.

The talk will focus on her latest book The New Age of Sexism: How the AI revolution is reinventing misogyny . She will discuss the seismic shift that AI is creating in our society, how it enables the spread of disinformation and what this means for women and marginalised groups.

The evening is part of a wider project from Libraries Unlimited. Commissioned by Ofcom and working in...

A pioneering new 'cohousing' community is proposing to save a listed building in the Pinhoe Road, Exeter, as part of a brand new development that they are helping to design themselves.

Located at the former site of the Honeylands Assessment Unit, the group are working with a developer, Aspen Retirement, who will submit a planning application in mid-June for a scheme known as ‘cohousing’.

The first members of the Cohousing Exeter group have begun co-designing their planned 37 future homes on the site of Honeylands House at Whipton which has been vacant for over ten years...

This ‘kitten season’ tattoo studios across the South West as well as tattoo fans of all ages are being called on to celebrate their dedication to cats and body art by hosting tattoo-focused days during July to raise money for local needy moggies.

Cats Protection has seen a number of tattoo studios over the past two years create dedicated flash days to raise money for its cat rehoming centres and volunteer-run branches. Now the charity hopes to unite cat-loving tattoo artists with its ink-loving supporters to raise money to help more cats and kittens through the annual boom in...