This December, staff and volunteers at Knightshayes are inviting visitors to join them for a traditional family Christmas. From 1 to 23 December from 11am until 4pm, visitors will be able to see the house adorned with Victorian decorations and festive cheer. As they wander from room to room, they will discover the ornate dolls houses on display, each from a different time period, just one part of Knightshayes’ festive experience which celebrates Christmas traditions from past and present, including the story of crackers and the advent wreath. Father Christmas has taken time out of his busy...
A rising research star from the University of Exeter has secured a coveted national award, for his innovative work on more accurately simulating natural hazards, such as windstorms and flooding.
Dr Ben Youngman, a Willis Research Network fellow in mathematics at Exeter, has been awarded the 2016 Lloyd’s Science of Risk prize, at a special awards ceremony held in the City of London on Tuesday, 29 November.
The prestigious prize was bestowed on Dr Youngman for his research paper co-authored with Professor David Stephenson entitled A geostatistical extreme-value framework for...
RGB Building Supplies has reopened its Well Built Community Fund and is now asking for clubs that come under the Scouting movement to get in contact and explain how £1,000 worth of building materials would help.
Whether a Scout group would like to renovate their headquarters, Beavers would like to complete an outdoor garden or Girl Guides would like to take on a community project, the builders merchant would like to hear from them.
As part of the Well Built Community Fund, RGB has been donating £1,000 worth of building supplies to different groups every other month this...
PARALYMPIAN Phil Eaglesham has invented a revolutionary new affordable wheelchair that lets users see eye to eye, with backing from the family of Dragons’ Den’s Deborah Meaden.
Corporal Eaglesham helped to create the new style of mobility device after catching Q Fever while serving in Afghanistan and having to use a wheelchair himself.
He found that existing designs were impractical, unwieldy, too low down and incompatible with modern living and so he determined to create a revolutionary new wheelchair that could help users live their lives more fully and to feel ‘abled,...
Exeter Deaf Academy, Princesshay's charity of the year, launched its charity raffle of a Mercedes Benz A-Class in April and now the countdown has started to announce the winner of the amazing prize, a £22,000 A-Class, courtesy of Mercedes-Benz of Exeter to raise money for the Exeter Deaf Academy.
To date, volunteers have sold over 4,000 raffle tickets from the stand in Princesshay and with the busy shopping period beginning, it is hoped that this figure will double before the winning ticket is drawn on the 24th December.
Tickets can be purchased from the Princesshay, with...
Cygnet’s New Year begins on 10th January with a World Premiere.
Untold Theatre will conjure up The Ghosts of Mr Dickens in a new play by Avril Silk & Martin Levinson, the team that brought Beyond Expectations and The Tempest. Aboard the SS Cuba, bound for America in 1867, Charles Dickens is plagued with guilt-ridden visions and visitors from the spirit world. Reality blurs into fiction as he is compelled to face his past. “The small cast showcase an incredible range in their acting” Everything Theatre
On 28th January in Feeding the Darkness, Journeymen Theatre challenge...
Exeter’s Gina Awad has been recognised for her “remarkable” efforts to make life better for people with dementia at Alzheimer’s Society’s 2016 Dementia Friendly Awards.
The national awards celebrate organisations, communities and individuals making outstanding contributions towards improving the lives and experiences of people with dementia.
This year there were nine award categories, including four brand new awards.
Gina was awarded the Dementia Friends Champion of the Year accolade for her efforts to make life better for people with dementia.
Santa Claus isn’t due for another three weeks yet, but Christmas certainly came early for Rob Baxter’s Exeter Chiefs side as they made it three wins from three in the Aviva Premiership.
Devon’s finest moved back into the top four courtesy of an early Penalty Try and first half touchdowns from James Short and Will Chudley, while skipper Gareth Steenson completed the job with three conversions.
In reply, fly-half AJ MacGinty landed a penalty for the Sharks, but that was all they could muster on an evening when the Exeter defence ruled supreme, particularly in the second half...
MORE than 80,000 people visited the breathtaking art exhibition ‘Shrouds of the Somme' when it was put on display at Bristol Cathedral during the week marking both Armistice Day and the end of the Battle of the Somme last month (November 2016).
The Shrouds of the Somme depicts those who fell through the medium of art, with 19,240 hand-stitched, shrouded figures each representing a serviceman of the British Empire who died on the first day of the bloodiest battle in British military history.
People from all over the UK came to see the exhibition on College Green and bear...
Children from Stoke Hill Junior School, Exeter, had a fun time during Road Safety Week (November 21-27, 2016) thinking about – and illustrating - how they can help to make roads safer.
The national awareness week is the flagship event of Brake, the road safety charity, and called for people to ‘Make the Brake Pledge’ to change their behaviour to make roads safer for all users – whether drivers, passengers or pedestrians.
To celebrate this idea, local Brain Injury Group member firm Foot Anstey asked children at Stoke Hill to illustrate how they might improve road safety –...
