Sport

Exeter City's academy has been relatively successful since the turn of the millennium as it has produced many players that have gone on to play in higher leagues, some even on the peak stages of the Premier League and European football.

First of all, Ollie Watkins is a player that has not reached magnificent heights but has established himself as a Premier League standard player at Aston Villa.

Aston Villa has been a struggling side under Steven Gerrard but Watkins has been a rare highlight linking up well with Danny Ings up front. Watkins possesses blistering pace but...

No matter if you’re here in Exeter, another part of the UK, or anywhere else on the planet, there’s going to be no getting away from the FIFA World Cup when it kicks off later this year.

In many respects, this year’s iteration of the world’s biggest football tournament will be business as usual. Fans from every continent will be flocking to the host nation in the hopes of seeing their nation be crowned as the best in the world at the beautiful game.

There will, however, be a few key differences. Firstly, the World Cup will be taking place in Qatar , the first time it’s...

The LTA’s Wheelchair Tennis Initiative is set to arrive at Exeter Tennis Centre on Sunday 27 August , as the search for the next big stars of the game continues.

This initiative is part of the LTA’s Wheelchair Performance Pathway Talent Identification Programme, delivered by our Wheelchair Performance staff. These open days offer players the first opportunity to enter our Wheelchair Performance Pathway and are designed to attract, engage and inspire people with physical impairments to join the game.

The LTA Wheelchair Tennis Initiative aims to attract, inspire and engage...

A professional rugby union player who is studying at the University of Exeter will be taking on another role in education after signing up to support a testicular cancer charity. Kitan Ojo, who is in the senior academy squad at Harlequins, has secured the role of university ambassador for The OddBalls Foundation and from the autumn term will be helping the organisation to encourage men to check themselves for signs of the disease, the most prominent form in males aged 15-49.

Kitan Ojo, 19, is from Weybridge in Surrey and is studying for a degree in Mechanical Engineering at the...