More than 10,000 Exeter City fans have purchased tickets for the Sky Bet League Two play-off final in the first 24 hours of them going on sale. The Grecians booked their place in the final thanks a dramatic injury-time winner from Jack Stacey on Thursday night, which gave them a 6-5 aggregate victory over Carlisle United. That win set up match with Blackpool at Wembley Stadium on Sunday, May 28, for a place in League One next season and demand for tickets from City supporters has been high. Tickets for the game went on sale at 12pm on Friday and already 10,000 seats have been sold from...
Exeter Chiefs 18 Saracens 16 London’s Calling once again for Exeter Chiefs after they produced a dramatic finale to sink Saracens in this pulsating Aviva Premiership semi-final encounter at Sandy Park.
With just over a minute remaining, Henry Slade looked up, took aim, before delivering a telling blow for Devon’s finest.
His 40-metre kick to the corner not only put Euro Kings Saracens on the back foot but, more crucially, it put him and his team-mates in prime position to strike.
In what was literally a last throw of the dice for Rob Baxter’s side, the gamble paid...
An Evening of Mediumship with Psychic Medium Nikki Kitt
Psychic Medium Nikki Kitt is a Spiritualist Medium who is currently touring the UK with her successful Psychic / Mediumship Evenings. As a Medium Nikki Kitt aims to provide evidence of life after life by giving messages to people in the audience from their loved ones in spirit with amazing accuracy in descriptions, personalities and all sorts of personal information..
Testimonies : "Hi Nikki I attended your evening last night and just wanted to say that you have an amazing talent" "I have seen many mediums and psychics...
A team of six passionate dementia researchers from the University of Exeter are uniting against dementia and cycling 350 miles from London to Paris in a bid to raise £12,000 for the charity Alzheimer’s Society.
The team will embark on their challenge on 19 July this year with a view to arriving in Paris, and crossing the Tour de France finish on the Champs D'Elysee, four days later.
Most of the team were not regular cyclists – but they are now building up to take on a gruelling 100 miles per day in the saddle for four days straight, to raise money for a cause close to all...
Rob Baxter believes his Exeter Chiefs squad are better prepared for what lies ahead as they look to secure themselves a place in this season’s Aviva Premiership Final. Having advanced to Twickenham a year ago, only to lose out narrowly to double winners Saracens, Devon’s finest again find themselves within touching distance of another big day out in the capital. Whereas this time last year it was all new and unchartered waters for Baxter and his squad, this time round the Chiefs enter into tomorrow’s semi-final showdown against Saracens at Sandy Park (2:30pm), better equipped to handle the...
Hotter, cheekier and funnier than ever, touring cabaret show The Lady Boys of Bangkok bring their lavish new production Who Runs the World! to Exeter next month.
Elections and referendums may come and go, but in the stakes for the best party night out in town, there’s no doubt where the popular vote goes.
Who Runs the World! is not a political question, it’s a “positive celebration of the fair sex” performed by 16 of Thailand’s most stunning Lady Boys.
A spokesman said: "Audiences can escape the drab greyness of everyday life and luxuriate in a colourful, euphoric,...
A hay fever map of Britain – with the first ever guide to the location of plants in the UK that can trigger the allergy - has been produced to help sufferers cope, and warn them which ‘hotspots’ to avoid.
Academics at the University of Exeter’s Medical School have produced new, highly-detailed maps http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0048969717309749 of the UK containing the location of key plants and trees known to produce pollen that triggers allergies and asthma.
The maps, produced in collaboration with the Met Office, may help acute hay-fever or asthma...
Residents of Cranbrook can now borrow a range of new books that support adult mental wellbeing from the town’s library, all of which have been paid for by the Cranbrook Healthy Town scheme.
The thirty new ‘Reading Well Books’ have been bought by Cranbrook Healthy Town and are part of a national scheme run by the Reading Agency to help support mental wellbeing.
The books valued at around £360 are on topics including common mental health conditions including anxiety, depression, phobias and some eating disorders and have been funded by NHS England’s Healthy New Town programme...
It was another busy day (FRIDAY) at the Devon County Show as the crowds flocked to enjoy the very best of Devon food and drink, spectacular action in the main arena and see the prize winning animals.
It was also another royal day at Westpoint with a second visit from HRH the Countess of Wessex, who is this year’s president of the Devon County Agricultural Association.
She visited one of the show’s star attractions Devon Remembers in the Craft and Garden feature where she was presented with gifts by Sophie Moore aged 11, George Morrison, aged nine and Charlie Moore who’s...
Equiniti Group PLC, the FTSE listed FinTech and regulatory services business has opened its latest regional technology hub, Ada House, in Exeter’s Pynes Hill business park.
The opening expands Equiniti’s footprint in the South West and Wales, with over 200 employees currently based in Bristol, Cardiff, Exeter and Stroud.
The new centre was opened in a ceremony today (Friday 19 May) by Sir Hugo Swire, Conservative candidate for East Devon, alongside Equiniti Group’s Chief Executive, Guy Wakeley. They were joined by Stuart Robb, the CEO of EQ Data (formerly Marketing Source)...
