The Crediton Parish Church Flower Festival is one of the main fundraising events for the upkeep of Holy Cross and many people from our parishes work to make it a very special and memorable week.
The 2019 Festival has the intriguing title ‘Colours of the Wind’ and runs from 10am on Saturday 1st June until 5pm on Thursday 6th June.
Work towards the 2019 Flower Festival began as soon as the 2018 Festival ended.
Last years’ Festival was ‘In Our Element’ and if you would like to see photos of previous festivals and videos of how a car and a rhino got into the church then...
Two play areas in Honiton are getting a new lease of life this month, thanks to East Devon District Council, which is investing £130,000 of modern and exciting equipment in the sites.
The installations will be carried out by the council’s contractor Kompan and work is due to begin at St Marks play area from 7 January and at Glen Farm play area from 21 January.
It will take around five weeks to complete the installation of equipment and safety surfacing and, weather permitting, it is anticipated that the play areas should be ready for use in February.
The residents of Woodbury will be trialling an additional recycling bag for the collection of cardboard from March.
Around 850 households in the village will be asked to collect their cardboard in a white foldaway collection bag instead of their green box and put the bag out at the kerbside with their other recycling containers on their usual recycling collection day.
Each household will receive a letter from East Devon District Council’s recycling team with more information about the delivery of the bags and a start date for the trial.
East Devon District Council’s Cabinet last night agreed to invest £1.1m in the development of a new Open Innovation Building at Exeter Science Park, in the Exeter and East Devon Enterprise Zone.
The investment will bring forward 20,000 square feet of space under one roof for growing small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) in science, technology, engineering, maths and medicine (STEMM) sectors.
Funding has been raised against future business rates income from the growing list of businesses seeking to establish offices and laboratories alongside leading regional science and...
A new Clapper Bridge has been installed over the Western Wella Brook, along with path and drainage improvements on the associated public right of way, which is part of both the Abbots Way and the Two Moors Way.
The project to make this happen has been led by Dartmoor National Park and is jointly sponsored by Totnes Ramblers and South Devon Ramblers.
There has been a need for a bridge at this location for many years. Last year following an aborted walk in the area due to the lack of a bridge, the walk leader, Steve Town, asked if Totnes Ramblers could try and make the...
In September 2018, Dr Michael Mosely presented the BBC Two programme Trust Me I'm a doctor called 'Can singing give you a natural high?'. They tested whether singing, dancing and cycling could boost levels of endocannabinoids - chemicals thought to be responsible for the 'runner's high'. The result showed that levels were increased by 20% when dancing or cycling. When singing, the levels of endocannabinoids were increased by 40% and big improvements were found in 'mood' together with reduced anxiety and feeling less stressed.
Can Exeter-based Sing for Fun give you a natural high?...
Hearthstone Investment Management Limited, an institutional investment manager specialising in residential property (PRS), has announced its private equity fund, Hearthstone Residential Fund 1 (HRF1), has exchanged contracts for the purchase of 81 houses for a total of £17.9 million from two major housebuilders.
In a significant multi-site deal with a national housebuilder, HRF1 has agreed to purchase 72 two-, three- and four-bedroom houses scheduled to be completed in 2019 for a phased delivery between January and December. The new build homes are located in Exeter (28), Bicester...
If the captivating images being returned by NASA’s New Horizons probe – currently venturing through the distant Kuiper Belt – have whet your appetite for exploring our planetary neighbourhood then you’re in luck this month.
On 27th January astronomer and broadcaster Will Gater will be bringing his spectacular live stage show about the planets to the Exeter Phoenix. The Story of the Solar System tells the tale of how our planetary neighbourhood came to be and how the planets were transformed from wandering points of light to familiar worlds – worlds that we’ve now examined up-close...
Although the UK is currently facing a lot of uncertainty in respect of Brexit, commercial property investments are on the rise. The housing market may be experiencing a slow period, but it seems commercial properties have avoided the same fate. So, as we head into 2019, is this rise likely to continue? Here, we’ll look at some of the top commercial property predictions in 2019.
Retail property investments likely to decline
Retail investments have already seen a decline over the past year. As shoppers continue to move away from the high street, investors are being cautious...
As we start 2019, weather forecasters have said the UK could see another Beast From The East and, liquid fuels trade association The Federation of Petroleum Suppliers (FPS) is urging elderly people age 75+, using heating oil, to sign up to the Cold Weather Priority initiative, as it responds to the latest figures from the Office of National Statistics which show an estimated 50,100 excess winter deaths in England and Wales during winter 2017/18.
This is the highest number of excess winter deaths on record since winter 1975/76 and the FPS is keen to ensure the most vulnerable people...
