Exeter School equestrians are celebrating a second team entry into the National Schools Equestrian Association (NSEA) Finals at Hickstead plus an individual pupil qualified for the prestigious Arena Eventing Competition.
Megan Bailey, Alice Bailey, Olivia Eden and Izzy Kekwick competed in the 80/85cm class at Bicton on 11 February coming second out of 60 individual competitors. This qualifies them for the Finals in May.
Exeter Junior School pupil Eliza Heard was successful in the 70/75cm individual class and her second place also puts her into the National Finals.
Exeter Airport has notched up its fourth successive year of growth in 2016 with passenger numbers up to 847,372.
Latest CAA figures show that 25,583 more passengers used Exeter last year, up 3% on the year before. The figures include the airport’s best August in eight years, when more than 100,000 people passed through the terminal.
But the strongest growth was in November and December, up 11% and 13% respectively on the back of new winter sun flights to Alicante and Malaga in Spain, which started at the end of October.
There’s a new face at the Rusty Pig in Ottery St Mary - one that means business.
Agata Domarecka joins the team at the ethical eaterie as restaurant manager, bringing with her a wealth of experience in the catering industry.
Agata, known as Agy, came to the UK 10 years ago from Poland after being discovered waitressing by Devon hoteliers who offered her a job in Lynton. After a spell at the Talland Bay Hotel she found herself at Combe House Hotel, now The Pig, where she was soon promoted to restaurant manager. Under the auspices of then owners Ken and Ruth Hunt, Agy became...
Leading local advice charity, Citizens Advice Exeter, is using Student Volunteering Week (20 - 26 February) to thank their student volunteers who gave their time to the local charity over the last 12 months.
Citizens Advice student volunteers support people at the charity’s reception, in face-to-face interviews and over the phone. In 2016, the charity helped over 8000 local people by:
Dealing with debt, designing payment plans and negotiating with lenders
Improving people’s financial skills, for example by finding ways to cut fuel bills
Deaf footballers in Exeter hoping to become coaches have been given a £1,000 boost to help pay for sign language interpreters.
Exeter City Football in the Community have a deaf football team known as Exeter City Knights who train weekly and play in monthly Ability Counts tournaments.
Some of the players are keen to become coaches but need support to take the FA courses.
Housebuilder Persimmon Homes South West has stepped in with a £1,000 donation to help pay for two sign language interpreters to translate alongside FA Tutors during the course.
Cranbrook Country Park is hosting a wildlife gardening session this Saturday morning, February 25.
The session will take place between 10am and 12pm; families are invited to take part in building homes for the wildlife in the area.
Children will have the opportunity to create bird feeders for their own gardens and build a safe environment for bees using a baked bean tin and bamboo.
There will also be the chance to help build a bug hotel which is made from leftover materials.
Cranbrook Country Park has already carried out three sessions so far this year....
Shaldon Bridge is set to be raised once a year to ensure that the recently refurbished structure remains operational and to allow essential maintenance.
Last Friday (February 17) Devon County Council contractors, under the direction of the authority’s Bridges Team, successfully completed a trial raising of the bridge’s lifting span. An Act of Parliament requires that the bridge, which links Shaldon with Teignmouth across the River Teign, remains operational. The current 324-metre long bridge was completed in 1931, but it has been many years since the lifting span was used for...
Exeter Chiefs head coach Rob Baxter has spoken of his delight after three of his current squad today put pen to paper on new deals with the Aviva Premiership club.
Props Ben Moon (top right) and Carl Rimmer (main picture), together with hooker Shaun Malton, have all agreed terms to extend their stays at Sandy Park.
Long-serving loose-head Moon has signed a new three-year deal, while Rimmer has agreed to extend his stay in Devon for a further two years. Meanwhile, Malton will be prolonging his Chiefs career for another year at least.
Some very strong winds are expected today (Thursday) in association with storm Doris with gusts of 60-70 mph likely, and 70-80 mph on coasts and hills.
Whilst the strongest winds look to be only short-lived, damage to structures, interruptions to power supplies and widespread disruption to travel networks are likely, with a danger of injury from flying debris. Trees are also likely to be damaged or blown over.
Heavy rain is also likely through Thursday as well as some snow over high ground as the system clears eastwards. These may prove additional hazards.
Reed Hall, Exeter University was the perfect setting for Life Education Wessex's very first fundraising event in Devon to help raise funds to support health, wellbeing and drug prevention education for children in primary schools across the county.
The event was hosted by Travelling Trends who provided all the latest high street branded clothing at highly discounted prices. Miss Devon, Brianna Evans along with Eliza Tidball, Fran Rigby, Gail Russell, Zilla Harford and Juliette Dubieniec modelled the latest high street fashions including spring and summer collections for all shapes...
