Rugby World Cup 2015 continues to grip the nation with over half a million local and international fans enjoying the Official Fanzones up and down the country to watch live matches and enjoy the excitement of the Tournament.
This is in addition to over 1 million fans who have already enjoyed the action in venues to date, a figure which is set to double with 2.41 million tickets now sold across the 48 matches. On a weekend that saw St James' Park and the Leicester City Stadium host their first matches of the Tournament, the Leicester and Newcastle Fanzones also welcomed fans for the...
One of the South West’s leading medical cosmetic practitioners is opening a monthly clinic at Wear Park Spa, Exeter Golf and Country Club offering non surgical cosmetic procedures.
Dr Pradnya Apte, who has over 8 years medical cosmetic experience along with almost 20 years as a dentist and advanced aesthetics dentist, has expanded her current clinic at Southernhay to the new spa located at Exeter Golf and Country Club just outside the city centre. The new treatments available include Botox, dermal fillers, Restylane Skinboosters and teeth whitening.
An epic bass and drum driven instrumental soundtracks Rhodes’s ominous entrance to the stage. With no lights upon them, it’s hard to tell if this is the masterful work of Rhodes’s four member support band or just some legendary score for that film you’ve always meant to get around to watching sometime, being blasted out the PA. It turned out to be the former. Almost as soon as it began, the atmospheric layers fall away, leaving a spotlight exposed Rhodes, singing gently to the accompaniment of his own hollow-body electric guitar. It’s...
Lloyds Bank colleagues from Exeter will join forces with 1,300 colleagues across the country to raise over £300,000 for BBC Children in Need, their chosen Charity of the Year Partnership.
Colleagues will cycle the equivalent of more than twice around the world in just twenty-four hours as part of the bank’s “Pedal for Pudsey” fundraising initiatives.
Lloyds Bank aims to help Britain prosper through Lloyds Banking Group’s Helping Britain Prosper Plan.
As part of this commitment, the Group aims to raise at least £2 million per year for its Charity of the Year in 2015...
Social enterprises in Exeter are being celebrated at the weekend as part of a nationwide initiative - Social Saturday.
Saturday (10 October) marks a UK-wide day of activity to celebrate, raise awareness and buy from social enterprises.
What sets these businesses aside from traditional businesses is that they trade for a social or an environmental purpose. They reinvest or donate their profits to meet this purpose.
Exeter City Council is recognising the importance of social enterprises both to the local economy and to the city’s culture by getting involved in the day...
Farmers’ leaders in the South West are predicting more tough times ahead for the region’s dairy industry.
The recent announcement of further cuts means farm gate milk prices are likely to remain below the cost of production for some time to come, putting many farming families under increased pressure.
In the South West this is exacerbated by having to deal with the financial and emotional effects of bovine TB. According to figures published by industry body AHDB Dairy, 124 farmers from the region have left dairying over the last year, a stark illustration of the problems...
The Exeter Dementia Action Alliance will be officially launching next month at the Royal Albert Memorial Museum with over 100 due to attende from local councillors to city retailers, businesses, people living with dementia and their care givers.
RAMM Community Participation Officer said: “RAMM is proud to be part of the Alliance, this growing community of organisations working towards a dementia-friendly city. At the museum there’s always something to discover – about objects, about the world, about yourself, or the person with you. We value every visitor.”
Mental health will be the focus at Exeter City’s specially designated One Game One Community match at home to Stevenage on Sunday 11 October (kick off 12.15pm).
A series of initiatives will take place including at half time, the national launch of the new Mental Health Charter for Sport and Recreation as part of the celebration of World Mental Health Day. The Charter is backed by the Professional Players Association, the Sport and Recreation Alliance, Time to Change and Mind. Exeter City FC will be joining 190 other organisations in signing up to the charter. The Exeter City...
Would you like to meet Hippocrates, Queen Seaxburh and Heavitree's own Richard Hooker? Well, why not join us for some half-term, family fun in celebration of some of Heavitree and Wonford's most ancient and revered trees. Including a discounted family lunch from the Royal Oak, Heavitree when booked through:-
The British Institute of Human Rights (BIHR) and the South West Equality Network have announced that the Human Rights Tour 2015 will be coming to Exeter on 6 October for a community day.
Now in its fifth year, the BIHR's Human Rights Tour partners with local groups from across the UK bidding to bring BIHR to town for free-to-attend pop-up community education and debate days to raise awareness about human rights.
This year the tour will stop by in Exeter to discuss and debate with local people about how human rights are relevant in our lives and what the future holds...
