Bridge Road in Exeter will be closed overnight on Wednesday 9 May.
The road will be closed from 8.30pm on Wednesday 9 May, and will re-open by 5:30am the following morning (Thursday 10 May).
The closure is needed for the installation of Automatic Traffic Counters, and Devon County Council’s maintenance contractor Skanska will also be taking the opportunity to clean out drainage gullies.
The traffic counters are magnetic loops sealed in the road surface which record the number of vehicles travelling over them and feed the information to a roadside cabinet. The data...
Healthcare and protection insurance specialist, The Exeter, has retained its Investors in People accreditation for the eighteenth year in succession. The Investors in People Standard seeks to highlight commitment to high performance through good people management in businesses. The Exeter met each of the nine key indicators of high performance, each with three underpinning themes, which The Investors in People Framework is organised around.
With its office based on the outskirts of Exeter and a staff count of nearly 130, The Exeter provides medical insurance and a range of other...
For the fourth year in a row, Otter Garden Centres is headline sponsor for the popular Ottery St Mary Food & Families Festival.
This year the festival is set for Saturday, June 2 and the family-run garden centre is looking forward to once again being involved.
Sabine Taylor from Otter Garden Centres, said: “It takes a lot of hard work to make the festival the success that it is, and we’re delighted to support the event once again.
“The festival attracts increasing numbers of visitors to the town centre each year and helps to put Ottery St Mary firmly on the map...
Paignton Zoo has just bred a rare and unusual lizard for the very first time.
The Solomon Islands skink is also known as the prehensile-tailed skink, or the monkey-tailed skink… or the giant skink… or the monkey skink… or even the zebra skink Whatever you call it, this is one extraordinary creature.
For a start, it’s the world’s largest skink. A skink is a type of lizard – the word is from the Greek and referred originally to lizards in that part of the world. It’s one of the few reptiles known to live in a social group (called a circulus). It gives birth rather than lays...
Scouts in the Cullompton area have a new long term home thanks to the work of five star housebuilder Barratt Homes.
Apprentices from the housebuilder, which this year celebrates its 60th anniversary, have built a brand new community hub for the scouts with the Cullompton Scout Centre officially handed over to the group at a recent opening ceremony.
And the new residents were full of praise for the new facility which can accommodate all 60 members of the group and has room for them to expand in the future.
Scout leaders James Buczkowski and Sarah Wyatt said they were...
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Your guide to What’s On in and around Exeter this weekend (27-29 April).
THEATRE
Katie Piper: What's in My Head Friday, Exeter Corn Exchange Katie embarks on her debut theatre tour to share what she has learnt and what helped her remain positive even through the toughest of times. She will discuss her own battles with anxiety and explain how she has overcome its crippling clutches. Katie is opening her own diaries, photo albums and personal memories in this most intimate and revealing talk about her life. This is her story, this is her life, this is her wisdom. This is ‘...
Hello Exeter, I am making my final (probably) trip to the UK this June, after emigrating to Canada in 1955.
As I go down memory lane, I would very much like to be able to make a tribute to Jean M. Churchley, my mentor, beloved Guide Captain for five years at Southampton Girls Grammar School, also gymnasics (physical eucation) teacher at the same school.
At 82 years old, our memories often go back to our school days and think of those who had a great influence in our lives.
Jean was straight from college in her first teaching position. She told us this, as first year...
Exeter Library has another fantastic author event coming up. Veronica Henry will be visiting to chat about her latest book, set in beautiful Bath; ‘A Family Recipe’ on 22nd May, 2pm-4pm.
Tickets to this event are £5 and includes a quintessential Cream Tea.
Pick up your tickets from the library or head to our Eventbrite page (booking fee applicable) Crediton Community Bookshop will be selling books at the event also.
Businesses from across Devon soaked up expert advice at this year’s annual Growth Day for firms across the county.
More than 130 people from local companies including Babble, MuMar, Pixalytics, Space, The Greedy Fox and Whizz Kids Toys were at Rockbeare Manor for the event.
Supported by Devon County Council and a host of partners, Fast Track to Growth provides expertise to companies to help them grow.
The annual Growth Day included 1-1 sessions with advisers and a packed programme of workshops covering everything from financial strategy and social media marketing to...
