The Twilight Walk

Event Date: 
08/07/2017 - 4:30pm to 10:00pm
Venue: 
The Maer, Exmouth

Bring a posse of girls together, dig out your legwarmers and join hundreds of women walking for Hospiscare!

Life Behind a Lens

Event Date: 
10/05/2017 - 6:00pm to 9:00pm
Venue: 
Deer Park Country House Hotel, Weston, Honiton

If you love watching ground-breaking BBC wildlife programmes, like: The Hunt, South Pacific & Planet Earth, you won't want to miss this...

Vital overnight resurfacing in Cullompton

Authored by News Desk
Posted: Mon, 03/27/2017 - 1:25pm

Overnight resurfacing work will be carried out in High Street and Higher Street in Cullompton, starting tomorrow night (Tuesday 28 March).

The night-time work, which is needed to complete improvements to the road condition, is scheduled to take three evenings, subject to weather conditions.

Higher Street will be closed overnight from 7pm to 7am between Tuesday (28 March) to Thursday (30 March), and traffic signals will be in operation at the Station Road Junction with High Street and Higher Street Cullompton.

Traffic management and diversions will be in place for...

M&S to open new Exmouth foodhall

Authored by MandSSW
Posted: Mon, 03/27/2017 - 11:28am

The new Marks & Spencer (M&S) Foodhall in Exmouth is set to open at 10am on Wednesday 29th March. Located on Royal Avenue, a stone’s throw from the railway station, the M&S Foodhall will feature a 24 seat Café, as well as the very best of M&S’s innovative and delicious food and drink products.

Opening just in time for Easter, the team at Exmouth will be delighting shoppers by handing out Easter eggs to the first 20 customers in store to celebrate opening day. Shoppers will also be able to discover the mouth-watering range of products for Easter from M&S’s Spring...

Put the Kettle on Devon!

Authored by News Desk
Posted: Mon, 03/27/2017 - 11:15am

PEOPLE across Devon are being invited to host a Cancer Research UK Coffee Morning and help raise money to fund life-saving research. Every day, 85 people are diagnosed with cancer in the south west. And that’s why the charity is calling on people across Devon to join together with friends, colleagues and family for a cuppa and a natter while raising funds to help beat cancer sooner. The charity is encouraging everyone to sign up for a free fundraising pack today and host a coffee morning any time until the end of May – with the official coffee morning day falling on April 6. The coffee...

Headline event for festival organisers!

Authored by Sam Richards
Posted: Mon, 03/27/2017 - 10:54am

Festival organisers in Teignbridge are invited to get on board with a new event aimed at giving them all the help they need in ensuring their event is a success.

Teignbridge is organising a new Festivals Forum event on April 3 from 4pm – 6.30pm at Old Forde House, Newton Abbot. The forum is focused on helping established and new festival organisers, big or small, come together under one roof to help make it easier for them to stage their events and reassure themselves that they have everything covered and are up to date with all the new developments in the industry.

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Browne Jacobson appoints litigator

Authored by News Desk
Posted: Mon, 03/27/2017 - 8:02am

National law firm Browne Jacobson has continued to expand its thriving clinical negligence practice with the appointment of new health partner Michael Chambers into its Exeter office.

Michael has over 15 years’ experience of handling litigation, arbitration and Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR).

He previously spent nearly five years as an in-house senior solicitor in the Legal & Risks Services department at NHS Wales Shared Services Partnership (NWSSP) in Cardiff where he acted for health boards throughout the region and advised on a large caseload of high profile...

Exeter residents' parking consultation begins

Authored by News Desk
Posted: Mon, 03/27/2017 - 7:57am

A consultation to determine if residents’ parking zones, introduced in Exeter last month, should be extended started on Friday (24 March).

This consultation is in response to requests from local residents living in areas near and adjacent to the new residential parking zones.

From this weekend residents in the affected roads will be receiving a postcard giving details of the consultation and how to respond.

It will assess the need for further parking restrictions to address the displacement of vehicles parked by non residents into these areas.

These...

Mitsubishi Motors Exeter Sevens launches

Authored by News Desk
Posted: Mon, 03/27/2017 - 7:11am

Mitsubishi Motors Exeter 7s took over Princesshay Shopping Centre on Wednesday (22 March) to launch this year’s tournament which returns to the South West on 15-16 July.

England Sevens players Tom Bowen and Charlton Kerr were in attendance, fresh from winning the HSBC Vancouver 7s, alongside England Sevens Academy player Callum Sirker, the Deputy Lord Mayor and a host of rugby clubs from the local area, all showing their support for the upcoming tournament.

Hundreds of passers-by got the chance to test out their rugby skills against the England Sevens players with passing...

Friends hard at work on Pebblebed Heaths

Authored by News Desk
Posted: Sun, 03/26/2017 - 4:30pm

The East Devon Pebblebed Heaths are amongst the most highly regarded conservation sites in Europe.

Known to some as Woodbury Common, this wildlife haven also encompasses common land associated with other historical parishes including Dalditch, Withycombe, Lympstone, Bicton, East Budleigh, Colaton Raleigh, Hawkerland, Aylesbeare and Harpford.

The East Devon Pebblebed Heaths Conservation Trust was established by Clinton Devon Estates in 2006 in response to increasing national and international recognition that lowland heaths are a habitat rich in wildlife and need...

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