Elite climbers from across the globe descended – or should that be ascended – on Exeter this weekend.
They were taking part in the Quay Climbing Centre’s Deep Water Solo event, which sees a seven-metre wall built into the canal basin. Competitors climb without ropes and drop in to the canal when they lose their grip.
And there were also some familiar local faces who were trying their hand at the sport for the first time.
Brave city councillors Rosie Denham and Emma Morse gave the wall a go, and they were accompanied by former footballer and Exeter City football Club...
Tickets have been released for the TechExeter one-day conference, Exeter's first multi-disciplinary, grassroots tech conference.
You can get hold of tickets directly from the conference site at conference.techexeter.uk .
Tech Exeter is hosting its inaugural annual conference at the University of Exeter on Saturday 8th October , with a line-up of 14 speakers from organisations such as the Met Office, Microsoft, Just Eat and more. With a retro games area (provided by JoypadBar.co.uk) and talks on a wide variety of topics covering web technologies, databases, agile and the...
Women have a 50% higher chance than men of receiving the wrong initial diagnosis following a heart attack, according to a new study part-funded by the British Heart Foundation (BHF).
The research, carried out at the University of Leeds, using the UK national heart attack register MINAP2, found that overall, almost one-third (29.9%) of patients had an initial diagnosis which differed from their final diagnosis.
The two main types of heart attack are STEMI and NSTEMI. STEMI occurs when there’s a total blockage of the main artery that pumps oxygenated blood around the body....
Police are appealing for witnesses following a two car collision that left two people in hospital.
At around 5.25pm on Friday 26th August, Police were informed of a head-on collision between a red Skoda Fabia and a blue Ford Mondeo. This took place just past the Bolham roundabout, prior to the A361 crossing the Mill Leat and the River Exe the carriageway.
The Skoda was heading from the direction of Barnstaple towards Tiverton; the Mondeo was heading in the opposite direction.
The Skoda driver, a 77 year old male from Wiltshire, appears to have drifted across into...
The Exeter-based police helicopter was scrambled after an incident involving a firearm in Devon.
Officers set up a cordon and began a search in the Starpitten Grove of Torquay at 11pm yesterday (Monday).
Insp Mark Waldron, force incident manager and tactical firearms commander, told the Torquay Herald Express: "There is an ongoing incident. There has been an allegation of a serious nature in that location. We would ask that anybody who saw anything in that location at about 9.30pm this evening (Monday August 29) should contact us.
A charity has made a generous donation of £10,000 to support Medicine students at the University of Exeter Medical School in essential specialised training.
The Hospital Saturday Fund’s donation will benefit 20 students in their fifth and final year as they go on placements known as electives. The six to eight week placements are mandatory and self-funded. Students work in specialised areas, often overseas, to get an insight into an area of medicine that interests them and may shape their career.
The Hospital Saturday Fund supports health charities in the form of grants for...
There is a huge disparity in the numbers of young people being employed across the UK’s cities and regions, including in the South West, which has one of the lowest rates of youth unemployment in the country (11.7%). This compares to the region’s cities which have higher youth unemployment rates: Plymouth (16.2%), Bournemouth (15.8%) and Bristol (14.2%) According to a new report by EY in association with the EY Foundation (an independent UK charity), this could have an impact on both the region and the wider UK’s aspiration to achieve ‘inclusive growth’, particularly at a time when the UK’...
Following the great success of 2015’s Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare’s Globe returns to Exeter Northcott Theatre, this time with its acclaimed Two Gentlemen of Verona.
Valentine loves Silvia and Proteus loves Julia – but Proteus is fickle, and falls for Silvia too. When Valentine plots an elopement, Proteus betrays him and Valentine is banished and joins some outlaws in the forest. What are the chances that he’ll be pursued by Silvia, and Silvia by Proteus, and Proteus by Julia, and that all will be waited upon – after a fashion – by their servants Speed and Launce and even Launce’s...
Untold Theatre and Yellowbelly Theatre are producing a version of ‘The Tempest’, touring theatres and community venues in the UK this Autumn.
This radical revamp of Shakespeare’s classic will combine News Footage, digital projections and live action. The show imagines the world during the year 2020: exploring the European Migration Crisis and asking ‘What happens next?’. Collections will be taken at each performance for the charity MSF (Doctors without Borders). MSF provide emergency medical aid to people affected by conflict.
Following its triumphant adaptation of The Jungle Book, Metta Theatre returns to Exeter Northcott Theatre with its new show, Blown Away.
Penguin Blue and friends go on an acrobatic Antarctic adventure full of good ideas, homesickness and the perils of kites. Packed full of spectacular circus, magical puppetry and catchy songs, Metta Theatre’s, joyous new stage adaptation of Rob Biddulph’s award-winning children’s book is fun for all the family.
London based Metta Theatre recently became an associate company of the Exeter Northcott Theatre. Along with Le Navet Bete and...
