Stars from the sporting, entertainment and culinary world came together last Friday 30th June to celebrate Devon's community sporting heroes and heroines for the 20th Devon Sports Awards.
The glittering celebration evening was the culmination of a six month nomination and shortlisting process. The Devon Sports Awards recognise and celebrate the best of both community and professional sport in Devon. Guests assembled at Sandy Park for the annual celebration organised by a partnership of the Exeter Foundation, Active Devon and Exeter College.
Exeter School is celebrating the opening of its new indoor pool.
Chairman of Governors and former pupil Andrew King officially opened the pool during a ceremony on 28 June.
A generous donation from an anonymous benefactor enabled Exeter School to build the first-class, 25-metre four-lane pool for the benefit of Exeter School pupils and local schoolchildren. The Governors agreed to match fund the donation in order to integrate the pool fully with the existing sports facilities.
Director of Sport Andy Mason said the inauguration of the new pool marked the completion...
Go on admit it! Don’t you love to listen in on other people’s conversations?
The beauty of cracking good radio drama is you can revel in this guilty pleasure without being caught. But in an age of iPhones, and iPods, people increasingly listen to audio drama alone, while being jostled by commuters or mithered by children, and have no one to gas to about the characters with afterwards. Now a group of Devon-based playwrights are plotting to buck this trend...
This July Exeter’s historic Boat Shed will be taken over by The Bike...
Go on admit it! Don’t you love to listen in on other people’s conversations?
The beauty of cracking good radio drama is you can revel in this guilty pleasure without being caught. But in an age of iPhones, and iPods, people increasingly listen to audio drama alone, while being jostled by commuters or mithered by children, and have no one to gas to about the characters with afterwards. Now a group of Devon-based playwrights are plotting to buck this trend...
This July Exeter’s historic Boat Shed will be taken over by The Bike...
Get live reaction to Exeter Chiefs' Premiership Rugby fixtures for the 2017/18 season at Sandy Park's Fixtures Brunch on Friday 7th July between 10.00 and 12.30pm.
Enjoy a full English breakfast and Q&A with Rob Baxter and members of the Exeter Chiefs playing squad, discussing the defence of their Premiership Rugby title.
Tickets are just £12 to include a full English breakfast. Buy yours at www.sandypark.co.uk/book
A Devon taxi driver, who stood up for an elderly couple being preyed on by gang of rogue traders, has been honoured with a Hero Award.
Chris Smith, 37, owner of Black Swan Taxis, Dawlish, was awarded the Chartered Trading Standards Institute (CTSI) Hero Award at their annual conference on Wednesday 28 June.
He was nominated by the Devon, Somerset and Torbay Trading Standards Service for his ‘outstanding contribution to consumer protection’ when he intervened to prevent doorstep traders from ripping off an elderly couple in March.
THERE were wins for two Exeter community football teams, Marcel's Allstars and Alphington Ladies Football Club, who won, respectively, the male and female 5-a-side community diversity football tournament, when 10 male and 10 female teams competed for trophies.
The tournament, held at the University of Exeter’s Streatham Sports Complex on Sunday, July 2, was organised by Exeter City Supporters Trust’s One Game One Community Group, supported by Exeter City’s Football in the Community.
Marcel's Allstars beat the team Beanskins United, 1-0 in the final of the men's tournament...
Specialist restoration work to the Ten Commandment Stones monument on Buckland Beacon has just been completed. The work was carried out in two phases by Bath-based conservator and lettering expert Iain Cotton.
The first phase, completed in late May, saw the stones cleaned and wrapped in preparation for the restoration work to commence. The second phase of the process saw further careful cleaning before some of the lettering was re-carved to bring it back to legibility. Finally, the lettering was painted with a specially designed black paint suitable for use at high altitude and...
Go on admit it! Don’t you love to listen in on other people’s conversations?
The beauty of cracking good radio drama is you can revel in this guilty pleasure without being caught. But in an age of iPhones, and iPods, people increasingly listen to audio drama alone, while being jostled by commuters or mithered by children, and have no one to gas to about the characters with afterwards. Now a group of Devon-based playwrights are plotting to buck this trend...
This July Exeter’s historic Boat Shed will be taken over by The Bike...
Police were called just after 7pm on Friday 30 June 2017 to reports of a two vehicle collision on the Moor Lane junction with Osprey Road, Sowton, Exeter.
A black Alfa Romeo MiTO car and a Honda CB 600 motorbike were both travelling northbound from the direction of Exeter Moto Services towards the Honiton Road Park and Ride Roundabout when the collision occurred.
The rider of the motorbike, a 22-year-old man from Exeter, sustained life-threatening injuries and was taken to the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital.
The female driver of the Alfa Romeo and front seat...
