Sport

South Devon’s highly regarded coarse fishing destination, Cofton Holidays, has crowned Jason Morgan from Guildford, Surrey as winner of Cofton Cup IV – The Fishing Competition.

The multi award-winning holiday park, which is the current holder of the South West Tourism Excellence Awards Holiday Park of the Year title, hosted the competition on its Mamhead Match Lake over 5 days of intensive fishing. The field was narrowed down from 40 in the opening rounds to 15 in the final, with the remainder battling it out for the Plate competition.

Competing against 14 other experienced...

A ladies' skittles team from Exeter narrowly missed top honours at the weekend when they were runners up in the British Skittles Championships. Two Tribes from Exeter found themselves in the finals for the first time, facing previous champions the Dolly Mixers from Totnes.

The Dolly Mixers finally triumphed by just ten pins over Two Tribes in a rollercoaster final as each team took it in turns to take the lead. Final score was 338 – 328.

Two Tribes captain Barry Powell said his team played superbly and attributed much of their success to the superb facilities and support...

Exeter Ladies Waterpolo team will represent the city on a national stage this weekend, as they begin their first season in the National Waterpolo league. And local house building firm Taylor Wimpey and Active Devon have given the team a big helping hand, with sponsorship donations totalling £800 (£500 from Taylor Wimpy, £300 from Active Devon) towards the league fees and expenses. The team successfully won through the pre-season play offs, beating off tough competition from Manchester Comets, Watford, Cheltenham, Nova Centurion and Sunderland to reach the third division of the League, and...

It is only mid-September and the football season is not even two months old but the manager merry go round is already in full swing. A whole host of managers in the top four tiers of the English game have left their roles and there is a growing sense that the Exeter City hot seat might be available soon too. If we were Matt Taylor we’d stay put – at least for the time being.

Taylor has been mentioned in connection with the vacancy at Sincil Bank after Danny Cowley stepped up to take charge at Championship side Huddersfield Town. Taylor has insisted he’s happy at Exeter and the...