Manna from Devon Cooking School’s hugely popular wood fired oven cooking courses are back for a second year at the seriously stylish Deer Park Country House Hotel, just outside Honiton in East Devon. David Jones, from Manna from Devon Cooking School, has returned again this summer to teach a range of outdoor wood fired oven courses, which started in May and run through until August 2015.

During the range of exciting new courses, which will take place during the week, David will share his infectious passion and enthusiasm for cooking with The Bushman wood fired oven that is...

Exeter’s most experienced choirmaster will shed light on his life’s work with choirs over a busy career at a lunchtime lecture next week.

Andrew Millington has worked in Cathedral music for his entire working life and has been Director of Music at Exeter Cathedral since 1999. The lunchtime talk on 3rd June at 13.00 (part of the Cathedral’s Lunchtime Bite series) is a repeat of the sold-out event that took place in February this year, and will look back on a lifetime’s career in church music, with reminiscences of Worcester, Gloucester, Guildford and Exeter Cathedrals. There will be...

Ceri Sweeney may be heading back to where it all began in terms of his senior career, but the Welshman insists his time with the Exeter Chiefs has been something to savour and a great period in his distinguished career.

Signed during the summer of 2013 from Welsh region Cardiff Blues on an initial one-year deal, the 35-year-old loved life at Sandy Park that he was more than happy to extend his stay further when the offer came a year later.

Featuring alongside fellow playmakers Gareth Steenson and Henry Slade, the Glyncoch-born back not only helped the Devon club to back-to-...

A moggy mystery has unfolded at Hospiscare’s Exeter hospice – a stray ginger cat, who staff have nicked named Boris, regularly pops into to see nurses and patients.

Boris jumps in through open windows or ambles through open patio doors and is a regular sight in the offices and ward.

He enjoys cuddles from cat loving Hospiscare nurses and patients and sometimes snuggles up on staff chairs in the ward office but there are concerns that he might get locked in the numerous different rooms at the Dryden Road building. Also, Boris has recently lost weight.

So Hospiscare...

Tourism Society Westcountry’s next meeting is on June 11th at Castle Drogo to discuss the ‘Gove effect’ and what can be done to address the huge loss of business now being seen in the region. The so-called 'Gove Effect' has had a huge impact on tourism in the Westcountry over the last 18 months, with changes to Education Regulations introduced by Michael Gove applying tighter restrictions on holidays in term time.

This has resulted in an £87 million loss of business to the visitor economies of Devon and Cornwall, stemming from families no longer booking term time trips and the...

Three Exeter Chiefs players have been named by England Head Coach Stuart Lancaster in a 24-man squad to play the Barbarians at Twickenham next Sunday (May 31).

Hooker Luke Cowan-Dickie, scrum-half Will Chudley and fly-half Henry Slade will all feature against the world renowned representative side. In total Lancaster has named 10 players from his 50-man World Cup training squad for the game with Northampton’s Lee Dickson skippering the side.

The other Rugby World Cup training squad members named are Kieran Brookes (Newcastle Falcons); Danny Cipriani (Sale Sharks); Luke...

After weeks of excitement the Tags-On Pop-Up came to Exeter for a night of discounted designer shopping.

Tags-On, which sells pre-loved designer fashion, came to Radiance MediSpa on May 21st for an exclusive evening of shopping.

The designer clothes, accessories, bags and shoes are sourced mainly in London by a professional celebrity de-clutterer and directly from the designers them selves. The hardly worn or brand new, high quality pieces are sold by Tags-On for a fraction of the original retail price with up to 85% off their original RRP’s.

Devon born Tags-On...

Geoengineering of the climate may be the only way to save coral reefs from mass bleaching, according to new research.

Coral reefs are considered one of the most vulnerable ecosystems to future climate change due to rising sea surface temperatures and ocean acidification, which is caused by higher atmospheric levels of carbon dioxide.

Mass coral bleaching, which can lead to coral mortality, is predicted to occur far more frequently over the coming decades, due to the stress exerted by higher seawater temperatures.

Scientists believe that, even under the most...

Avon & Somerset Police are appealing for the public's help in locating a missing woman from Yeovil.

Lesley Beard, 47, of Goldcroft Court, Yeovil, was last seen in Exeter on May 18th.

It is believed that Lesley was seen at the Post Office on Sidwell Street, Exeter, at 10.30am on May 18th.

She is also seen on CCTV in the vicinity of Bedford Street, Exeter, on May 20th at 3.50pm.

Lesley might still be in the Exeter area or back in Somerset.

She is described as white, of a slim to medium build, 5ft 5 ins tall with shoulder length dark brown hair with...

Brake, the road safety charity, and Direct Line insurance are urging drivers to hang back, slow down and chill out on country roads to avoid tragedies, as a survey reveals the extent of risky, aggressive overtaking.

An alarming one in seven drivers (14%) report that in the past year they have been forced by another driver’s overtaking to swerve, pull over or brake to avoid a collision.

Brake and Direct Line’s survey also found that, in the past year:

Four in five drivers (80%) have felt endangered by an overtaking manoeuvre, either of their own, their driver, or...