With a brand new location for 2017, the Children’s Hospice South West (CHSW) Rainbow Run at Westpoint Arena, looks set to be the charity’s best ever.
With a full event village planned with music and entertainment, this year’s run is definitely a family day out with a difference. Jayne Jarrett, events fundraiser at CHSW said: ‘We simply love our Rainbow Run as it is such a fun event, children from five are able to take part making it a really great family experience. We are thrilled to be able to bring this event to Westpoint and with so much planned for our event village, this is...
Two Exeter Chiefs fans who rescued a woman from the River Avon while celebrating the New Year in Bath are to be commended with a bravery award.
Mark Burdis and Lisa Haynes are to receive the Royal Humane Society Award after coming to the woman's aid at around 1am on New Year's Day.
The couple, from Torquay, had travelled to Bath to watch Exeter Chiefs' win over Bath in the rugby before spending the evening in the city for the New Year celebrations.
They were walking along the towpath back to their hotel when they came across a woman struggling in the water.
The South West will be one of the first places in the country to offer a new and joyful cardio fitness workout from a BBC Dragons’ Den success.
SwingTrain is an elating exercise experience accompanied by the vintage vibes of swing, gospel, rhythm & blues and jazz – a marked difference to the electronic music that dominates the majority of cardio exercise classes. The fitness regime has been developed by Scott Cupit, the award winning dance teacher and entrepreneur whose pitch for Swing Patrol – the dance school and events company – secured investment on BBC Dragons’ Den. Duncan...
People in Exeter, and the surrounding area, are being given the opportunity to make a difference to the lives of local people with dementia by becoming Dementia Friends Champions. People can book now to attend a touring induction day that is coming to the city on Tuesday 7 February.
The day-long session, that will take place at Sidwell’s Community Centre, is part of Alzheimer’s Society Dementia Friends programme, which is the biggest ever initiative to change people’s perceptions of dementia. It aims to transform the way the nation acts, thinks and talks about the condition....
Live at the Apollo, Mock the Week and Never Mind the Buzzcocks star Sara Pascoe will be on stage in Exeter later this month.
Sara will open Exeter Comedy Grove's show in Exeter at The Barnfield Theatre on Friday 20th January.
Sara Pascoe is a British writer, stand-up comedian and actress. She has appeared in a number of television programmes - Campus, Live At The Apollo, QI, Never Mind The Buzzcocks, Mock The Week among others - as well as an all-female sketch show and her own Edinburgh show, and runs comedy club The House Of Mirth.
A pupil at Exeter Cathedral School has been awarded a place in the prestigious National Children’s Orchestra of Great Britain.
Rufus Hetherington, who is in Year 7 at ECS and a Chorister at Exeter Cathedral, has earned himself a spot in the French Horn section of the elite GB orchestra.
Rufus, who has been a pupil at the School since he was 8 and who studies French Horn at the School, said he was ‘really pleased’ to have made the grade and that he was looking forward to the challenge of working alongside some ‘amazing players’.
Coastal and marine tourism in the South West will be the focus of the Devon Maritime Forum’s Winter17 Conference next week.
Entitled ‘Selling the Seaside; Opportunities and Challenges for Marine and Coastal Tourism in South West England’ the conference takes place on Tuesday January 10 2017 at The Devon Hotel, Exeter.
The conference will bring together a range of national and regional tourism industry experts and business leaders and will feature speakers from the National Coastal Tourism Academy, British Hospitality Association, Visit England and the new Visit Devon....
Exeter Chiefs may have left it late to sink rivals Bath last weekend, but head coach Rob Baxter is calling for a fast start from his team ahead of tomorrow’s Aviva Premiership clash with Saracens at a sold out Allianz Park (3pm).
Back-to-back victories over the festive period have helped to lift the Devonians to third in the standings at the halfway point, but it’s this weekend’s tussle with the reigning English and European champions that should prove the ‘acid test’ of how far the Chiefs have come in recent weeks.
Last season Sarries got the better of Baxter’s men on...
Don Armand says it’s imperative he and his Exeter Chiefs team-mates ‘stay in the fight’ for the full 80 minutes when they tackle reigning English and European champions Saracens at a sold-out Allianz Park (3pm).
Following the lead of head coach Rob Baxter, who often coins that very phrase many times over the course of a season, Armand knows there is no bigger test than facing the Londoners in competitive battle.
Mark McCall’s side have proved in recent years they are the stand-out force in Northern Hemisphere club rugby, winning not only back-to-back Premiership crowns, but...
People in Exeter lose fewer teeth than the average for the South West according to research from mydentist, which has over a million patients in the region.
Patients at mydentist, North Street, Exeter, have had 7.88 extractions for every 100 patients over the last year compared to 10.67 extractions across the South West as a whole and an average of 11.14 for the UK.
Steve Williams, clinical services director for mydentist, said: “Our patients enjoy some of the lowest rates of tooth loss in the region and we’re delighted to be helping them maintain a healthy mouth.
