Good progress has been made today (Sunday) in clearing roads to communities left inaccessible due to snow.
The Council’s highways teams have been throwing all available resources at breaking through to previously cut off communities.
The primary salting network across Exmoor, including B roads, is now passable. Roads to villages North East of the North Devon Link Road and a few on Dartmoor and in the South Hams, that this morning were inaccessible, are this afternoon generally passable with care.
Devon County Council says drivers on Monday morning should find the...
A new show is touring venues in Devon and Dorset to celebrate International Women’s Day 2018, after an appeal for women to join the choir led to 63 arriving for rehearsals!
‘Aint’ I A Woman’ is the third ‘Her Story’ show organised and written by Devon-based arts charity, Wren Music, and featuring women from across the South West. For some of the 63, this will be their first experience of singing on a stage.
The show is coming to the Cygnet Theatre in Exeter on Friday 9 March as part of a tour of four venues in the space of a week. It’s also visiting All Saints Church Hall,...
Apprentices at the University of Exeter will take part in a series of events during National Apprenticeship Week (5-9 March 2018).
The university employs 40 apprentices, and they will take on challenges ranging from a live broadcast to escaping from locked rooms at Exeter’s Mission Escape.
They will also join the Apprenticeship Games in Cornwall, and help promote apprenticeships and answer questions at Exeter College’s Apprenticeship Expo.
The University of Exeter’s apprentices, aged 16-58, are employed at three campuses across Devon and Cornwall. Since April 2017,...
Your essential guide to What’s On in and around Exeter this weekend (2-4 March).
THEATRE
A Tomb With A View Friday & Saturday, The Blackmore Theatre, Exmouth This play is set in a sinister, old library. There, a lawyer reads a will to an equally sinister family. One family member has werewolf tendencies, another wanders around in a toga of Julius Caesar, and a third, a gentle old lady, who plants more than seeds! By Act 3, there are more corpses than live cast members left. The whole plot heads towards a surprising conclusion! This is the first of the Tomb trilogy....
Tickets are selling fast for an evening with Bryan Robson OBE, with premium tables now sold out.
The event takes place on Monday, April 16, 2018 at the Great Hall at Exeter University, and is hot on the heels of the sold-out Paul Merson and Ray Parlour evening which takes place on January 30.
An evening with Bryan Robson is kindly sponsored by RGB Building Supplies with tickets for the event costing just £36 per person, with a standard table of 10 available for just £300.
Join us for an evening that will look back on the football career of a true legend and longest-...
A CHURCH in Exeter is livestreaming their service this Sunday – so those snowbound and stuck at home won’t have to miss out.
Rediscover Church in Northernhay Street already broadcasts their 11.30am service LIVE online every Sunday to a local and international audience, with people tuning in from across Devon including Topsham, Crediton and Exmouth.
But in extreme weather such as snow or floods, their livestream broadcast takes on a more important role, so those who cannot leave their own home due to safety or transport reasons, can still take part in worship. join in with...
Exeter Chiefs Director of Rugby Rob Baxter has called for another step up in standards from his side as they prepare to welcome Saracens to Sandy Park on Sunday (3pm).
The varying effects of ‘Storm Emma’ and the ‘Beast from the East’ have meant the Round 17 clash in this season’s Aviva Premiership has been put back by 24 hours, but Baxter is none the less readying his troops for a key encounter between the league’s top two sides.
Buoyed by a return to winning ways last weekend against Northampton Saints, now the Chiefs leader is looking to use that success as the...
Drivers are being urged not to drive on roads across Dartmoor and Exmoor as the clear-up operation continues.
Road conditions on the National Parks’ road network, especially on higher ground, have been described as ‘treacherous’ by Devon County Council’s Highways Operations Centre with many roads still impassable.
Ice and snow are still wide spread across many routes.
Councillor Stuart Hughes, Devon County Council’s cabinet Member for Highways said: “Please avoid driving today on routes across the National Parks. I would urge resident who live locally to please stay...
An urgent appeal has been issued for registered nurses and other clinical staff to help boost staffing levels at the RD&E Hospital in Exeter this weekend.
Suzanne Tracey, RD&E Chief Executive, said: “We are appealing to all clinical staff available to work at our main Wonford site in Exeter this weekend to please contact the hospital on 01392 411611 (or directly ring the staff hub on 01392 406172) urgently. Our greatest need at this time is for registered nurses.
“Due to the impact of the severe weather on normal staffing, the Trust now needs extra staff to boost...
A group of Dartmoor farmers have signed up to a new scheme to benefit wildlife in three Dartmoor river catchment areas.
So far 34 farmers in the East Dart, Upper Tavy and Cherry Brook/Lower West Dart catchments have signed up to work together to improve the natural environment at a landscape scale, to achieve greater improvements collectively than individual holdings may achieve on their own. A second scheme based around the Erme/ Yealm catchments is also being funded.
The schemes are being funded through the Countryside Stewardship Facilitation Fund which was established...
