Newton St Cyres Young Farmers Club held their AGM on 15th September with Stuart Luxton standing as the new President, Robert Chertion as Chairman, Georgina Davie Vice-Chairman and Millie Murphy as secretary. The club is going from strength to strength with an increased number of members since the new members evening arranged to recruit younger people, and a selection of activities and club socials held within the first month.
Millie Murphy competed at the County round of the Call my Bluff speaking competition representing Haldon Group, whilst Georgina Davie competed in the Just a...
A festive motorbike cavalcade with a special difference will take place just a couple of weeks before Christmas this year – and YOU could be part of it.
The riders will be delivering Christmas toys to youngsters with life-limiting illnesses at the South West Children’s Hospice.
So why not arm yourself with a Santa suit, decorate your motorbike with some tinsel or antlers and join the Exeter Based Motorbike Rides group for a ride to remember?
This is the second Exeter Santa Ride, the first one last year was very memorable with well over a hundred bikers all turning...
Exeter City's search for a Saturday afternoon away win this season continues after a 2-0 Hallowe’en defeat at Barnet.
City made three changes for this one, and with Jordan Moore-Taylor not involved, Tom McCready came in at right-back and featured alongside a central defensive pairing of Christian Ribeiro and the returning Troy Brown. Ryan Harley was back in the starting line-up, and operated along the flank.
City spent a lot of the first period in defensive positions, with Tom Nichols finding himself in the defensive third a lot...
The launch of the 2015 Poppy Appeal in Devon (coinciding with the arrival of the Royal British Legion’s Field of Remembrance on Cathedral Green) has marked the beginning of Exeter Cathedral's preparations for the coming season when we remember those close to us who have died.
November also includes occasions when the entire country stands still to honour the memory of lives lost in armed conflict.
There are plenty of opportunities to gather in the Cathedral for glorious music, moving worship or silent prayer, including the popular Remembrance Sunday Service (8th...
Moves to register public footpaths across the grounds of East Devon District Council’s headquarters at the Knowle in Sidmouth, have been rejected by a government-appointed inspector.
The decision has been welcomed by the council and follows a protracted legal process stretching back more than three years.
Two applications were made in 2012 by local residents to register a number of footpaths across parts of the Knowle under the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981.
Devon County Council, who is responsible for public rights of way, rejected the applications but an...
A group of lawyers turned rock stars from local law firm Ashfords LLP will be performing at Tedburn St Mary Village Hall to raise money for the firm's Charity of the Year, Mind on Saturday 21 November 2015.
The six-piece of talented performers, also known as "The Outlaws", have already performed to great acclaim at the firm's summer party and number of other local venues, quickly capturing the hearts of their co-workers and locals with a mix of classic and current rock favourites.
The 2 hour charity gig is being held at Tedburn Village Hall and will...
NASA scientists are tracking the upcoming the flyby of a skull-like asteroid which will skim past earth today.
Asteroid 2015 TB145 was discovered on Oct. 10, 2015, by the University of Hawaii's Pan-STARRS-1 (Panoramic Survey Telescope and Rapid Response System) on Haleakala, Maui, part of the NASA-funded Near-Earth Object Observation (NEOO) Program.
According to the catalog of near-Earth objects (NEOs) kept by the Minor Planet Center, this is the closest currently known approach by an object this large until asteroid 1999 AN10, at about 2,600 feet (800 meters) in size,...
BBC Radio Devon’s audience has plummeted to its lowest level for more than two decades.
Figures obtained by the Express & Echo show the station had an average of 180,000 listeners a week from July to September, down 34,000 from the previous three months.
The number of listeners went up by 24,000 between September 2014 and April 2015, but dropped 7,000 in the following three months.
The latest figures represent a fall of 17,000 over the past year and 88,000 since September 2005.
They are the lowest recorded for any quarter since audience data for local...
A brave group from leading South West law firm Stephens Scown pushed themselves over the edge today in a Halloween-themed abseil raising funds for Age UK Exeter.
Six lawyers from the firm’s Young Marketing Group (YMG) took part in the hair-raising 80ft abseil off the edge of Princesshay’s NCP car park, raising over £750 in the process.
In costumes ranging from witches to Harry Potter and Batwoman, the terrifying lawyers were part of more than 50 participants from businesses around the city.
Age UK Exeter works to support elderly people across the city and is the...
The Exeter Daily has teamed up once more with Exeter Round Table to offer you the chance of winning a family ticket to this year’s Charity Fireworks Extravaganza.
How to enter:
All you have to do for the chance of winning is to email your name, email address and a contact telephone number to ted@thedailyuk.com - make sure you enter "Round Table Fireworks Competition" in the subject line!
One winner will be chosen at random at 4.30pm on Monday 2 November 2015 and notified by email.
