This summer holiday Devon Libraries are challenging children of all ages to take part in their Summer Reading Challenge – part of a national programme coordinated by The Reading Agency.
Inspired by the works of Roald Dahl, and to celebrate his 100th birthday, this year’s theme is “The Big Friendly Read” and Devon Libraries are launching their challenge with a special event at Devon’s Crealy Great Adventure Park this Saturday 16th July. Devon Libraries & Crealy Adventure Park are also giving away FREE park tickets for the launch to 25 lucky children who visit Exmouth Library...
Members of Exeter City Council’s Leisure Complex and Bus Station Programme Board have voted unanimously in favour of proceeding with interim bus station arrangements in the city centre.
The decision comes after two additional information events took place in Southernhay and Sidwell Street to display plans and take on board feedback on the temporary measures.
The other option of using the Triangle Car Park was not progressed after taking on board the views of local residents and businesses.
Subject to Devon County Council approval, a temporary traffic solution will...
Internationally renowned company, Goodridge, has celebrated the consolidation of its Exeter headquarters and manufacturing facility at new premises.
The occasion was heralded by a champagne reception on Friday 11 July, attended by high profile figures from the automotive and motorsport sectors and Trudi Goodridge, wife of Goodridge’s late founder and MD, Stuart Goodridge.
Guests including Devon-based racing driver and Le Mans winner, Harry Tincknell, British Touring Car Championship Drivers, Matt Neal and Gordon Shedden, and former Exeter Chiefs player, Chris Bentley,...
Young people with learning disabilities are benefitting from a new training initiative provided at the Royal Devon & Exeter Hospital in partnership with Exeter College.
The Trust has been selected by the college to provide supported internships to help young people develop some of the skills they’ll need for the workplace.
“The scheme promises wins all round, for the interns, for our staff and managers and for our patients” explains Mark Gill, Head of Workforce Planning & Development.
The supported internships are tailor-made for the programme. Hospital...
Dog walkers can now put their dog waste in a number of litter bins around the city.
Previously, bagged up dog poo had to be placed in the red dog bins located around Exeter. But in a move to make things easier for dog owners and dog walkers, standard litter bins can now be used to dispose of the waste.
It will go to Exeter’s energy-from-waste facility which can treat up to 60,000 tonnes of non-recyclable waste every year. The poo, along with anything else that can’t be salvaged, still creates valuable energy which gets fed back into the National Grid.
After seven successful years Off Grid Festival has found a new home in Devon.
Off Grid festival is a green family event that has grown out of the British grassroots festival movement. Over the last seven years the event has educated and informed thousands of people about the skills and knowledge required to live a low-impact ‘off-grid’ lifestyle.
The festival brings together some of the UK’s most progressive thinkers and practical activists . It’s mission is to share the tools and technologies needed to move humans towards sustainable living. Participants of all ages will...
CELEBRATED Polar Explorer and international adventurer Antony Jinman is to relocate his Plymouth headquarters to the city’s Science Park.
Antony, who has travelled to both the North and South Poles, is one of only 12 Britons to have made it to the geographical South Pole.
As well as being an explorer, Antony Jinman is a climate change educator. He visits schools to deliver presentations on his experiences in the Arctic and elsewhere. He has also set up and runs Education Through Expeditions, which aims to provide climate change education resources for teachers and pupils...
At the meeting of the Exeter Highways and Traffic Orders Committee on 12th July it was decided to approve a residents’ parking scheme for the area north of the Chestnut Avenue roundabout on Burnthouse Lane on both sides of Rifford Road.
The only exception to this will be that part of Woodwater Lane to the south-east of Rifford Road, on the park side.
The area to the south of the roundabout on both sides of Burnthouse Lane will not be part of a residents’ parking scheme, however there will be several places where double yellow lines will be introduced to tackle parking...
Vue is set to give the UK an all singing, all dancing glimpse into the life of one of the most creative showmen of our time, David Bowie.
David Bowie Is was the fastest selling exhibition in the Victoria & Albert Museum’s history.
Now a cinematic,you can get a look behind the scenes on the big screen. The creative piece charts the fabled history of one of the world’s biggest and most iconic pop stars.
Featuring original flamboyant costumes, never-before-seen handwritten lyrics, film and music videos, Bowie’s own instruments, album artwork and diary entries, the...
