VULGAR VICTORIANS Find out what Victorian children did for fun! Have a go at creating an optical illusion and then make your own Victorian toy to take home.
Come along to explore the fascinating and gruesome parts of history Travel back in time to a different period of history every week with themed crafts, costumes, and horrible history facts!
Each session takes place in the Pearson Education Centre between 10.00 and 12.00, and children can be dropped off and left for the entire session.
Calling the tour 'out of the whirlwind' is as an apt description of an evening with 'Ireland's number one comedian', Tommy Tiernan, as you could possibly get.
The experience leaves you ruffled, refreshed and somehow cleansed but ultimately rewarded in the humour stakes for hearing him out and following his acerbic outpouring that resonates strongly with the Devon crowd.
Tommy Tiernan's appearance at Exeter's Corn Exchange, as part of the mostly excellent LOL Festival which is now it it's 7th year, transported the audience...
Local businesses are being invited to play a part in a groundbreaking Exeter motoring trial that could make driving in the city, the South West and, eventually the globe, cheaper, greener and safer.
The citywide trial of Lightfoot®, which helps drivers save fuel, cut emissions and reduce accidents by driving more efficiently, is due to start in March having received hundreds of applications for the 100 trial places.
Now Exeter-based Lightfoot®, which originally developed the driver behaviour technology for the commercial sector and is using the trial to see if similarly...
Bridge Road in Exeter will remain open this evening (Tuesday 23 February) as a scheduled closure is no longer needed.
A full road closure was originally planned tonight as part of the widening scheme.
However, the traffic management work to establish one lane in each direction was completed last night and therefore the additional closure is not required.
The Glasshouse Lane/Bridge Road junction will be closed from 9am on Wednesday 24 February until 6pm on Saturday 27 February.
The closure will enable utilities diversion work to be carried out, with trenches...
Results from the latest annual NHS Staff Survey show once again that high numbers of RD&E staff would recommend the hospital as a place to work or receive treatment.
The 2015 survey results, released this week, also show that the level of staff satisfaction with the quality of work and patient care they deliver is above the national average for acute trusts. And the RD&E’s overall staff engagement score has also risen above the national average after the Trust began a detailed programme of engagement activities two years ago designed to improve staff involvement in change...
A member of RGB Building Supplies’ Exeter team has raised a fantastic £365 for the Exeter Foundation by dying his hair a wonderful shade of violet.
For the past few weeks, RGB driver Keith Thomas has been inviting customers to make a donation to his ‘Colour in Keith’ appeal and vote on what colour, or pattern, his hair became.
Keith’s hair was then dyed in the Exeter branch on Friday 19th February with colour kindly donated by LaRicheLtd.
Keith said: “A huge thank you to all our customers who made a donation, and to RGB who matched the amount that was raised. RGB is...
Upper Sixth Biology groups at Exeter School experienced gene technology workshops thanks to a visiting team from Exeter University Medical School.
Pupils used restriction endonucleases to digest plasmid DNA and then separated the fragments using gel electrophoresis.
The fragments were fluorescently labelled so could be seen using a UV lamp.
Head of Biology Julia Metcalf said this was a fantastic opportunity for the Upper Sixth to get hands on experience of the practical techniques they are learning about in Unit 5 of their A2 syllabus and techniques that several of...
Registering to play in the first ever Emirates FA Cup gaming tournament held at Wembley Stadium closes in one month (18 March 2016). Gamers and super fans from across the world are invited to enter for the chance to represent their team, compete for glory and the opportunity to lift the trophy and win tickets to the illustrious Emirates FA Cup Final on 21 May.
On Saturday 7 May, gamers of varying ability will descend upon Wembley Stadium as the home of football transforms into an epic gaming colosseum set to turn heads and sweat palms in equal measure.
Local brain injury charity Headway Devon's popular craft fair and coffee morning returns on Saturday 23rd April. Taking place in the beautiful XCentre, just a stone’s throw from Exeter’s historic Quayside, this event combines a wide range of stalls from talented local sellers with delectable treats in one of Exeter’s most beautiful spaces.
The event will take place at the XCentre on Commercial Road from 11am-3pm and entry is free.
With lots of local craft stalls to browse selling a huge range of beautiful items from potters and wood-turners, to card crafters, jewellery...
Fire crews from Exeter were called to tackle a blaze at a property in New Buidlings, Broadclsyt on Monday evening (22 February).
On arrival, crews confirmed the fire to be in the front room, and crews got to work using two breathing apparatus, one hose reel jet, one safety jet and two dry powder extinguishers, together with a thermal image camera.
Crews on scene assisted with first aid to a man suffering smoke inhalation while waiting for ambulance crews to arrive.
At 10.10pm crews confirmed the fire was out and confirmed the fire was located within the ground floor...
