Home furnishings retailer, IKEA, today announces that the doors of its new Exeter store will officially open for business on Tuesday 1st May. IKEA has invested £80 million in the 29,000 square metre store on Newcourt Way, and will bring its extensive range of high-quality, affordable products to the south-west of England. The store will feature inspirational room sets, a crèche, restaurant, bistro, a Changing Places toilet facility* and car park with over 1,000 spaces. The store is now going through the final stages of its recruitment process, with almost all of the 350 jobs created for...
Kathryn Roberts and Sean Lakeman; the Dartmoor-based husband and wife have twice won the coveted Best Duo title at the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards (2016 and 2013), consistently delivering assured, distinctive performances whether live or recorded.
Over two decades of performance they have never been trapped in a groove – always bold and innovative, mixing traditional song arrangements with (increasingly) their self-penned material which reels from the bitter to the sweet, the wry to the sad, the political to the passive, across folk, rock, country and blues genres.
A two-day running festival staged by CITY Community Trust has been declared a huge success.
More than 450 runners braved the elements to take on the Exeter Half Marathons, which began at the Quay and followed a two-lap route along the River Exe and through Riverside Valley Park.
Organisers at CITY Community Trust, Exeter City Football Club’s partner charity, said they were delighted with the event, which sold out weeks in advance. The charity is now looking ahead to its next events which are the Granite Way race, a 10 or 20mile race across Dartmoor, on March 4 and the...
Multi-award winning Cofton Holidays is hosting a free fitness and wellbeing weekend packed full of activities for individuals and the family from Friday 23rd to Sunday 25th February. The event will take place at Ashburn Springs Spa and Leisure featuring its gym and fitness studios.
The event will showcase a range of free 25-minute fitness classes with taster sessions throughout the weekend. Classes will take place in the Fitness Studio, Indoor Cycling Studio, The Warren Retreat, the Indoor Pool and outside.
Suitable for all fitness levels, the weekend gives...
Onelife Training UK Ltd, based in Marsh Barton in Exeter, has launched their first Parent First Aid course. The company have been teaching first aid, fire safety, health and safety and a whole range of courses for many years, and celebrate their 10 year anniversary in October of this year.
Their first aid in the workplace or Parent First Aid course is aimed at parents, grandparents and carers of children and babies and covers very topical areas such as basic life support, choking, meningitis and childhood diseases. The course is being held at the company’s training centre in...
Otter Garden Centres in Ottery St Mary has announced the total raised for its charity of the year 2017, Devon Air Ambulance Trust.
The East Devon branch of the family-run garden centre ran various fundraising activities across the year to achieve an impressive total of over £7,500.
£700 came from donations to the annual Memory Tree, where customers buy a red or gold ribbon to attach to a Christmas tree in memory of loved ones. £1,000 was raised from parking donations for Ottery St Mary’s Tar Barrels event, with a matching amount donated to the Tar Barrels Carnival Committee...
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