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Summer Dance Camp 5-12 yrs 29th July- 23rd Aug 2019

Event Date: 
29/07/2019 - 10:00am to 23/08/2019 - 3:30pm
Venue: 
DanSci Dance Studio

Let your children enjoy a week of dancing fun this Summer Just choose your dates and book instantly online. Childcare sorted and it's fun and healthy way to make friends. £25 per day or £100 per week. £25 Discount for week long bookings!

Visit www.dansci.co.uk for more information and to book

Due to new facilities we are able to offer a larger selection of dance styles. Each main session will include technique and a routine. The focus is on learning something new while making friends and having fun.

You can purchase tickets for the number of days you require at £25...

Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Foundation Trust invests £7 million in new energy technology 

The Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Foundation Trust (RD&E) is set to reduce its energy costs by £800,000 a year, following a £7 million investment in sustainable energy measures.

The project, delivered by Centrica Business Solutions, will see state-of-the-art energy technology installed at five sites across Exeter, helping the RD&E to cut its energy costs by 17 per cent.

Design and construction is set to be completed by the end of April 2020. It includes the installation of a new 1.5MW combined heat and power unit that will generate power onsite at Wonford Hospital, as...

Start your own business today with these simple steps

Authored by David Banks
Posted: Wed, 07/03/2019 - 9:18am

Starting your own business can be one of the most rewarding and freeing journeys that you take in life. If you have a passion, talent or marketable skill that you think you can spin into a business, why wait? Far too many people are going to work every day to jobs that they don’t really enjoy, not because they want to, but because they have to.

You can break free from the drudgery and monotony of an unsatisfying professional life by taking control and starting your own business. It’s a much more realistic proposition than many people realise. There are lots of things that keep...

Roman road restored at Redrow’s Romansfield development

A local groundworker has reconstructed an original Roman road at Redrow’s Romansfield development in Okehampton, Devon.

In 2018, archaeologists from independent commercial consultancy AC archaeology working with Redrow on the development before its launch discovered what they thought to be the most south-westerly Roman town in Britain.

The local archaeologists found the foundation trenches and post-holes of some 25 timber-constructed buildings situated either side of a well-preserved Roman road extending eastwards from a military fort.

Ahead of the opening of...

Table tennis club team B

Promotion for Ottery Table Tennis Club

Authored by Sue Cade
Posted: Wed, 07/03/2019 - 6:15am

Ottery St Mary Table Tennis Club B Team has been promoted to the First Division of the Exeter & District Table Tennis league.

League Chairman Bob Carlyon presented the trophy to the team, Chris Jones (Captain), Guillaume Gaston and Jeremy Broad at club venue, The Institute in Yonder Street.

The club, which meets on Tuesdays at Colin Tooze, sports striking club t-shirts sponsored by Otter Garden Centres. Manager, John Giblin said: “We are delighted that the team achieved promotion this season, and we look forward to hearing how they do in the First Division.

“We...

How Exeter City FC fans can keep themselves busy ahead of the 2019/2010 campaign

The curtain has closed on yet another season and with just weeks remaining until the start of the new campaign excitement is already building.

There’s set to be plenty of comings and goings over the next month, most recently Jonny Maxted , as Matt Taylor attempts to mould a squad capable of mounting a real challenge next term but as we count down to kick-off there’s plenty of Gercians fans to keep themselves busy.

From taking stadium taking stadium tours to familiarising yourself with matched bettering so you can earn some risk-free cash by backing city next year, here’s a...

60 tonnes of black plastic prevented by British bacon brand

Neil Parish, MP for Tiverton and Honiton visited leading Devon-based bacon producer Denhay’s factory on Thursday 27 June to learn more about the local company’s new sustainable initiative.

Denhay has switched its products’ packaging to fully recyclable clear trays made from 25% recycled plastic - removing black plastic from any Denhay retail packs of bacon which will avoid an estimated 60 tonnes of non-recyclable waste from going to landfill.

A clear new vision

Denhay’s new easy-peel packaging is both consumer and environmentally-friendly, as the clear plastic tray...

Cider and Ale Festival

Exeter Cider, Gin and Ale Festival

Event Date: 
27/07/2019 - 6:00pm to 11:45pm
Venue: 
Exeter Saracens Rugby Club

A fun family evening of live rock pop and jazz with music from `Inertia`, `Shovelhead` and fabulous tribute act `The Mangled Worzels`.

Price: £10 each or £20 per family,includes 1st free drink

Exeter experts awarded prestigious Institute of Physics medals

Two physicists from the University of Exeter have received prestigious national awards in recognition of their long-standing, pioneering research.

Professor Bill Barnes and Professor Gilles Chabrier have received notable prizes from the Institute of Physics, announced today.

Professor Barnes has been named as the 2019 winner of the Thomas Young Medal, while Professor Chabrier has been awarded the Fred Hoyle Medal.

The awards are designed to recognise, celebrate and reflect the impact and applications of physics in everyday life, the breadth of the discipline in...

South Dartmoor Community College teams up with Giving World 

Authored by David Banks
Posted: Tue, 07/02/2019 - 1:29pm

South Dartmoor Community College has teamed up with national charity, Giving World, in a new initiative which will benefit all students at the school.

The school in Ashburton has called the scheme the 'Room of Requirement' – after the Harry Potter books – and has seen it receive dozens of items for free that students can claim. The haul includes 150 pairs of socks, 30 pairs of gloves, 240 bottles of spray disinfectant, 176 tubes of hand cream, 72 bottles of shampoo, 120 pocket travel guides, 20 hairbrushes, 1,000 biro pens, 10 cookery books and 150 reading books.

Students...

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