BBC presenter Dr Helen Czerski and Met Office Chief Scientist Professor Dame Julia Slingo will be among the world-leading climate change experts speaking at a family-friendly festival at the University of Exeter this weekend. The day-long event exploring extreme weather is being held on Saturday March 5 on Streatham campus in Exeter in collaboration with the Met Office and Weather Art and Music (WAM), an award winning special interest group of the Royal Meteorological Society. Throughout the day a series of talks, workshops, art and music under the title Extreme Weather and You will...
The Family Law Company presented a cheque for £1,000 raised at a skittles evening to Exeter Deaf Academy.
The cheque was presented to Tori Vince, Community & Corporate Fundraising Manager at Exeter Deaf Academy by The Family Law Company Director, Jane Chanot and Associate Chartered Legal Executive, Gemma Sparks, at the company’s offices in Balliol House, Southernhay.
Jane Chanot said: “We are delighted to help in supporting the Academy’s fundraising for its fantastic new site at Hill Barton, which is due to open in January 2017.”
Devon’s Crealy Great Adventure Park has announced it is sponsoring Withycombe Rugby Football Club (WRFC) over the next two years. Members of the club came to celebrate the sponsorship with a special kick around at the Park accompanied by Buddy Bear.
The sponsorship has secured kit for the under 9’s, 10’s and 11’s at the local rugby club until 2018. The three teams, each a mix of boys and girls come together regularly to play at the Club’s grounds in Exmouth.
Chris Down, Managing Director of Devon’s Crealy said: ‘Supporting local groups that help keep children fit and...
A mother from Exeter who has leukaemia is appealing for people to register online as potential blood stem cell donors with Delete Blood Cancer UK.
The appeal is being made by 36-year-old mother of three Kate Barnett, who needs to find a matching donor to save her life. If a matching donor isn’t found for her, she will have to resort to receiving blood stem cells from her 17 year old son who is not a perfect match for her, which is a higher risk procedure than receiving blood stem cells from a perfectly matching donor.
Kate, who is from Whipton and works at Tesco, has three...
Little Levi Brailey is ready for action! Big sister Bo helps put on his camouflage while mum Amber teaches him to salute.
He was preparing for a special event for a very special woman in his life - his beloved Nanna Ruth Regan.
Levi, 3, was spending the evening with his family, dad James, big brother Solo and granddad Kevin Regan practising donning their camo in preparation for Hospiscare’s Men’s Walk on Saturday March 12.
Already more than 400 men have signed up.
Kevin has rallied his family and friends to join him on the walk for this local city charity....
Devon and Cornwall Police along with local authorities have launched an appeal to help them locate a missing 12-year-old Devon girl who’s been taken to Bangkok by her father.
A High Court Judge has ordered the release of details of Arisara Miles, who is known as ‘Zara’, who travelled to Thailand with her father without permission.
Zara and her father, Trevor Miles, left their home in Exeter and flew to Bangkok on November 10 last year. Her whereabouts since then are not known.
Mr Miles failed to attend a meeting arranged by Devon County Council to address concerns...
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The Maynard School’s recently launched advertising campaign has fended off international competition to be voted ‘Ad of the Week’ by The Drum Network. In an unprecedented success for an independent school in Exeter, the 40-second film and corresponding print, digital and outdoors advertising campaign was voted ahead of global giants such as L’Oreal, McDonald’s, Samsung, Renault, Ambrosia and Cancer Research UK.
“The Drum Network champions innovation and provides a huge platform to assist international advertising agencies in achieving their goals. It has a huge member network and...
The South Devon Link Road project is celebrating after winning a regional highways industry award.
Devon County Council, Torbay Council and Galliford Try won the 'Large Transportation Project Award' at the Chartered Institution of Highways and Transportation (CIHT) awards held last week.
The CIHT South West Awards – run by the UK’s leading transportation professional institution - are intended to recognise the best projects completed, substantially completed or having reached a significant milestone in 2015.
The shortlisted projects were selected based on entrants...
The Exeter Northcott Theatre has announced that its 2016 Christmas production will be a brand-new adaptation of J.M Barrie’s much-loved classic, Peter Pan and will be produced by Exeter Northcott Theatre.
Join Wendy, John and Michael as they soar into the night sky with Peter, to a magical land of mermaids and fairy dust, where children can fly and all sorts of exciting adventures happen every day. But beware – danger is just around the corner. Captain Hook and the pirates are looking for revenge and Peter Pan is top of their list!
