The latest group of young people in Devon have taken part in a Rugby World Cup Legacy programme.
The Business Empowering Employment Programme (BEEP) gives 16-24 year olds the confidence and skills to secure jobs and training opportunities.
Eight youngsters have completed an initial two-week course run by Motiv-8sw and were presented with their certificates at a celebration event on Friday (Oct 21) by radio and television broadcaster Judi Spiers.
They also worked with Exeter Chiefs’ players during the course, as they built their confidence and developed new skills...
Fireworks, henna tattoos and delicious food are among the fun activities on offer at the University of Exeter’s annual Diwali celebrations this month.
Students have planned an exciting programme to mark the Hindu festival of light. It will take place at the Streatham campus in Exeter on Sunday, 30 October.
The event has been jointly organised by student members of the University’s Hindu and Asian Societies and staff from the University and Students’ Guild.
There will be food on sale and stalls selling bindi, bangles and incense sticks. Attendees can take part in...
Ollie Devoto is banking on home comforts to help reignite the Exeter Chiefs ahead of Sunday’s crunch Aviva Premiership encounter with former club Bath at Sandy Park (3pm).
After back-to-back losses in the European Champions Cup against ASM Clermont Auvergne and Ulster, the Devon outfit resume domestic matters this weekend with a mouth-watering local derby encounter.
With a sell-out crowd already assured and both clubs desperate to claim vital league points, the 23-year-old – who swapped playing life in the Roman City for that of Exeter this summer – believes this latest...
A Devon quarry that originally supplied stone to build Exeter Cathedral over 800 years ago has now re-opened, thanks to a partnership between the site’s current operator and the Cathedral’s works department. Materials were last extracted from the Dunscombe Manor site in the 1980s but recent acceleration of the major works programme has depleted the Cathedral’s stockpile of Salcombe stone which is used to replace original, decayed material on a like for like basis. This type of work is essential as the Cathedral commences the latest phase of its restoration, due to last for at least 10...
A leading Devon law firm has won a national award for marketing for the second year in a row, and has clocked up its third national award in a month. Stephens Scown LLP, which is based in Exeter, won the Excellence in Marketing award at the Law Society Excellence Awards, which were announced in London on 20 October. The award was for the firm’s Love Where You Live campaign. Last year the firm won the same category for its Support SW Dairy Farmers campaign. The news comes just weeks after the firm scooped the Most Innovative Marketing award, as well as being named Law Firm of the Year at...
Tickets are on sale to hear award-winning author, director and theatre-maker, Stella Duffy OBE, give an exclusive talk at Exeter Library on her latest novel ‘London Lies Beneath’.
Based on a true story, London Lies Beneath is Duffy’s first novel in four years and at 6pm on Friday 4th November the public are invited to Exeter Library to hear the authors own thoughts on her latest book.
Stella Duffy has written thirteen novels, over fifty short stories and ten plays. London Lies Beneath is Duffy’s 14th novel and tells the story of three families and the tragedy that will...
The Pavey Group’s ‘Donate & Do Good Day’ for Children’s Hospice South West (CHSW) was a resounding success.
The day was held in Exeter on Tuesday 25 October and the idea was, as many busy professionals don’t have time to take their unwanted items to charity shops, the team from Pavey Group would visit the businesses to pick up collections instead!
Whilst members of the team spent the morning collecting charity shop donations from businesses all the area, the rest of the team worked as volunteers at CHSW’s Sidwell Street shop in Exeter helping to sort through the...
Devon’s richest raceday takes place on Tuesday (November 1) when high class horses will be heading to Exeter Racecourse to contest the grade 2 188Bet Haldon Gold Cup.
The prestigious two-mile one-furlong race is fast, furious and spectacular and with £62,500 in prize money it’s one that trainers make an early season target.
Champion trainer Paul Nicholls has saddled five winners of the race including last year’s victor Vibrato Valtat. He said: “It’s one of the early chasing highlights of the season and I try and save a nice horse for it. It’s a very good start for two-mile...
An exciting debut novel by a young writer, Trace This Scar marks a change from the tone of the first offering by Jessikah Hope Stenson.
Following on from her collection of short stories titled A Single Drop Of Perfect & Other Stories, released in February 2016, Trace This Scar is a psychological thriller with a strong crime focus.
Due for release 24th November, Trace This Scar tells the story of a woman named Daphne whose husband is sent to prison for a murder she knows he did not commit. Packed with lies and betrayals and the mystery surrounding the murder, Trace This...
