Landlords of Houses of Multiple Occupation (HMOs) are being offered £125 discounts for a licensing their properties if they sign up to an accreditation scheme.
The incentive comes as Exeter City Council and the University of Exeter actively attempt to drive up the standards of properties in the city for tenants.
Both the University of Exeter and the Students’ Guild are committed to promoting the AfS/Unipol Accreditation Scheme within the private sector housing market in Exeter.
The University of Exeter is working with AfS/Unipol to ensure that landlords are made...
The Lammas Glove will be raised above Exeter on Friday as part of a ceremony dating back more than 900 years.
The Proclamation of Lammas Fair takes place on Friday (17 July). Originating from before the Norman Conquest, the Lord Mayor's procession of the Lammas Glove, includes civic dignitaries and local school children, some in period costume.
This year the Lord Mayor will be joined by the Mayor of Bad Homburg, Germany - Exeter’s twin city - and his delegation, who will be visiting Exeter as part of the celebrations for the 50th Anniversary of the twinning of Exeter and...
The man described as ‘the hardest working man in comedy’ is to appear in Exeter.
Jimmy Carr brings his new show ‘Funny Business’ to the Riverside Leisure Centre on Saturday 22 August.
His long tours are legendary and each new tour is greeted with critical acclaim as he appears live throughout the UK. This Riverside show is being promoted by the team at Exeter Corn Exchange because they couldn’t fit Jimmy’s audience into their own venue. His last Exeter appearance was at the Corn Exchange but it meant that he had to perform twice on the same night to give his legions of fans...
Exeter's Northcott Theatre has been included in a Regional Touring Network that has received a £827,000 grant from Arts Council England.
Facilitated by English Touring Theatre, The Regional Touring Network, a consortium of nine regional venues and English Touring Theatre, will produce and tour high quality drama on the mid-scale to audiences throughout England, and by growing audiences through a comprehensive and effective audience development plan will deliver a legacy of sustainable touring.
Director of English Touring Theatre Rachel Tackley said “It is clear that there...
Exeter's Royal Albert Memorial Museum has been shortlisted for the Telegraph Family Friendly Museum Award
RAMM is one of only six museums to be shortlisted for this year's award – the biggest museum award in Britain.
The competition has been tough with a record-breaking 800 nominations this year. The six finalists have been chosen by a panel of experts. Visitors, staff, volunteers and city councillors all contributed to RAMM’s nomination. Now it’s up to a ‘mystery shopper’ family to road-test RAMM and judge whether it should be the overall winner.
Work continues to progress well on a brand new pub and restaurant opening soon in Exeter.
The Pinhoe Hoard, which is being built by Marston’s Inns and Taverns, will cater for 185 diners and will offer fresh Rotisserie chicken every day, as well as a selection of other home cooked meals, and an extensive range of drinks.
The pub manager has now been recruited and activity is well underway to recruit all team members. We are now recruiting for the following positions including:
Police are appealing for the public’s help in identifying two men who stole cash from within the Aldi store on Alphington Road, Exeter.
The two men are believed to have taken £290 out of an unmanned cash register between 3pm and 4pm on Monday 13 July.
One man is described as white, between 5ft 8 and 5ft 11 tall, aged mid thirties and was wearing a fishing style hat, a black t-shirt, blue jeans and white trainers.
The other man is described as white, around 6ft tall, and aged between late twenties and early thirties and was wearing a green checked shirt, black jeans...
The UK’s largest cricket bat has been unveiled at one of the country’s oldest cricket clubs and sponsored by one of the country’s oldest family businesses!
Helmores, one of England’s longest established firms of estate agents are delighted to be sponsor-ing the iconic giant cricket bat, which was created from a storm damaged tree at Shobrooke Park Cricket Club, Crediton.
The Scots Pine, planted in 1890 when Shobrooke Park Cricket Club was established has been carved into a giant cricket bat; 5 metres high, with the handle 1.5 m and the blade 3m long. The tree was damaged by...
The new-look Devon Youth Games has been declared a resounding success with hundreds of young people taking part in a range of sports on one day.
An estimated 1,000 young people took part in the day of sporting action on Sunday 12 July, organised by Teignbridge District Council and Torbay Council and sponsored by the Rotary in the South West Peninsula.
Youngsters representing different council authority areas throughout Devon scooped armfuls of medals in individual and team events. The overall Games trophy was awarded to Teignbridge and the fair play trophy was awarded to...
EE customers registered in flood risk areas in Devon and Cornwall will receive messages from the Environment Agency’s Floodline Warnings Direct service, giving people valuable time to prepare.
The scheme is the first of its kind in England and follows a successful pilot in Staffordshire in March this year.
Since 2010, the Floodline Warnings Direct service has enabled the Environment Agency to automatically register and send warnings to 600,000 home and business landline numbers, but this will be the first time that flood warnings will be issued directly through a mobile...
