As part of the Summer Reading Challenge, Exeter Library invites parents and children to meet Emer Stamp, author of sensational children’s book “The Unbelievable Top Secret Diary of Pig’ on Wednesday 10th August from 11am – 12noon.
Emer will be talking about creative writing and the main characters from her books as well as holding a 'How to draw' session where children can learn how to draw four of the main characters – not to be missed!
Emer Stamp grew up on a farm in Devon before training in graphic design and becoming the Creative Director for the advertising agency...
Police were called by the ambulance service shortly after 4am on Saturday 30th July 2016 with a report that a 24 year old male pedestrian had been in collision with a white Peugeot van on the A380.
The incident happened 1km south of the Penn Inn roundabout on the Torquay bound lane of the dual carriageway.
The pedestrian lives outside the force area. The driver of the van is 49 and from Dawlish.
The van was travelling towards Torquay and it appears that the pedestrian was crossing the carriageway towards the central reservation when he was struck by the vehicle....
Following the latest news that we are set for another round of cheap mortgages, with rates at some banks now as low as 0.99% , it is as good a time as any to take out a mortgage in order to get on the property ladder.
However, while mortgages may be cheap, house prices most certainly aren’t, with the average house price in Exeter and wider England now up to a staggering £300,000. In Exeter alone, house prices have risen by 159% since the turn of the millennium, while wages have only increased by 51% . According to property experts the Open Property Group , the recent ‘Brexit’ vote...
With the expensive winter housing period for dairy cows getting ever closer, South West farmers’ leaders have underlined how important it is that increased market returns for milk processors are quickly passed back to farm businesses.
A 10 per cent decline in milk production over recent months combined with favourable exchange rates – making imports more expensive – and increasing spot prices for milk should all mean increased returns for processors, which must be passed on to dairy farmers who can ill afford to wait.
Andrew Branton, chairman of the NFU’s South West dairy...
Over 174,675 businesses based in the South West1 must automatically enrol eligible employees into a workplace pension scheme before 1 April 2017, including businesses employing only one or two people.
Automatic enrolment can be complex and small businesses can be stretched - often with little experience of running a pension scheme, so the Pensions and Lifetime Savings Association (PLSA) has created Pension Solution to help small businesses through the automatic enrolment process.
Commenting, Laura Webb, Head of Membership Relations, Pensions and Lifetime Savings Association...
An expert on the psychology of political crisis is to receive this year’s Presidents’ Award for Distinguished Contributions to Psychological Knowledge from the British Psychological Society.
The winner is Professor Alex Haslam, Professor of Psychology at the University of Exeter and Professor of Psychology and Australian Laureate Fellow in the School of Psychology at the University of Queensland .
Working with Professor Michelle Ryan at Exeter, Professor Haslam developed the concept of the ‘glass cliff’ – the tendency for women to be promoted to high-level jobs at times of...
If you have a disability, or you know someone who has, please come along to the Blue Light day on 10th August.
It’s free to attend and is being held at St Luke’s Science & Sports College, Exeter between 10am and 2pm.
The event aims to give people with disabilities advice about the emergency services and help break down any barriers that are felt within the community.
Emergency services including police, fire, NHS and the ambulance service will be on site, as well as educational and voluntary organisations.
Rural crime cost the South West £6.1m in 2015, up from £5.9m in 2014 – despite remaining broadly static at a national level. The figures form part of NFU Mutual’s annual Rural Crime Report, published today, revealing that the cost of rural crime to the UK economy has now reached £42.5 million a year.
According to the leading rural insurer, the items most commonly targeted by thieves across the South West over the last 12 months were tools from farms and businesses, quad bikes (ATVs) and garden equipment. The South West also saw the second largest increase in the cost of livestock...
On Saturday 30th July, campaigning organisation 38 Degrees brought together hundreds of walkers and art-lovers on Dartmoor and Exmoor National Parks to celebrate the 80th anniversary of the charity Campaign for National Parks. The Campaign for National Parks was created in 1936, when a group of people - passionate about the nation’s stunning open landscapes - decided to work together and launch a campaign to protect them for future generations. 80 years later and England, Scotland and Wales now has fifteen designated National parks, bringing over £4 billion to the UK economy (through food...
Don’t make any plans for the weekend until you’ve checked out our guide to what’s on in and around Exeter (29-31 July).
THEATRE
The Bideford Witches Friday & Saturday, Clifford Room, Barnfield Theatre, Exeter Temperance Lloyd, Susannah Edwards and Mary Trembles of Bideford were the last three women to be executed for witchcraft in Great Britain. High Wall Theatre present a striking retelling of their incredible true story. Tickets £8, £6 conc. Box office 01392 271808. https://www.facebook.com/thealphaeffect/
