Age UK Exeter Summer Fete

Event Date: 
04/07/2015 - 12:00pm to 4:00pm
Venue: 
St Thomas Pleasure Ground, Exeter

Our traditional fair is back !

12noon to 4pm

St Thomas Pleasure Ground

Lots of fun for the whole family

Music, games, stalls, food and entertainmnet.

Free Entry

Come along and support your local charity. All money raised stays locally to provide services and advice for older people in Exeter.

Treat from 'Trottery's' Rusty Pig

Authored by Sue Cade
Posted: Wed, 04/22/2015 - 1:18pm

Chef Robin Rea from Ottery’s award-winning Rusty Pig has put together a special festival meal box for the Honiton Sausage & Cider Festival at the Honiton Showground on May 1 and 2.

The feast includes a Rusty Pig homemade saveloy and blood pudding, with green sauce and pease pudding.

“We’re really looking forward to supporting the festival this year as traders, and I wanted to make something a bit different for festival-goers to enjoy,” explained Robin.

Robin signed up for the festival after choosing the Devon Freewheelers as his charity of the year for 2015....

Success for Uni golf team

The University of Exeter Golf 2nd team went head to head against Stirling 2nd team in the BUCS Trophy Final at Notts (Hollinwell) Golf Club near Mansfield on Wednesday 15 April 2015. The University of Exeter Golf Club is one of the most successful in student competitions and was looking to add to the 7 titles won in the last 3 years. The morning fourball matches were with Exeter’s first pair Alex Broggio (captain) and Joe Davis getting the match underway with a fantastic start. However Stirling fought hard in the middle holes leading to a tense final few holes. Stirling missed a pressure...

Gregory recruits four apprentice drivers

Authored by Proteus
Posted: Wed, 04/22/2015 - 12:47pm

Gregory Distribution Limited (GDL) has recruited four new apprentices at its Cullompton Depot as part of a long term strategy to attract younger drivers into the sector.

Sean Pearson, Mitchell Brooks, Callum Clinton are from Exeter along with Jack Miles from Silverton are all 19 year olds and are undertaking their driver training courses with Marsh Barton based Trans Plant Mastertrain while learning other job related skills in-house at GDL’s Cullompton Depot.

GDL’s Business Unit Director Darren Beaven said: “The industry as a whole is facing a shortage of drivers and it is...

Pint of Science Festival

Event Date: 
18/05/2015 - 7:00pm to 20/05/2015 - 10:00pm
Venue: 
The Ship Inn, The Rusty Bike, Oddfellows, Exeter

This year the University of Exeter are hosting the first ever Pint of Science event in Exeter. The aim of the Pint of Science festival is to deliver interesting, fun, relevant talks on the latest science research in an accessible format; all in the pub whilst enjoying a pint! Over the course of the three nights there is a choice of three topics to enjoy in three different pubs across the city. So why not do a different pub and a different topic each night? The general topics covered are; “Atoms to Galaxies”, “Beautiful Mind” and “Our Body”. With talks ranging from self-control to aliens...

Beware of council tax refund scam

Authored by Mary Youlden
Posted: Wed, 04/22/2015 - 10:48am

East Devon District Council has been alerted by concerned residents to a council tax refund scam, currently being operated in the district.

Residents need to be aware that if anyone contacts them by telephone, claiming to be from East Devon District Council and asks them for bank details due to their account being in credit, they must NOT give them this information. These are hoax calls made by fraudsters.

If residents have any concerns over the legitimacy of a call regarding Council Tax then please contact the council's customer service team on: 01395 517446 to confirm....

Festival celebrates traditional Devon ciders

Authored by Mary Youlden
Posted: Wed, 04/22/2015 - 10:27am

A Festival will take place in May at Exmouth Rugby Club to celebrate cider made by those people dedicated to keeping Devon's traditional apple varieties and pressing methods alive.

The type of musical acts you would expect and hope for at a festival like this will be playing, such as London Irish “psycho-cèilidh”band Neck, 50s psychedelic punk from GoGo Cult, blues- grass from Big Joe Bone and folk rock from Ash Mandrake and the Redhillbillies.

RNLI Exmouth will be providing village fete style games during the daytime to promote their volunteer and fundraising initiatives,...

Warning of A38 road closures

Authored by Mary Youlden
Posted: Wed, 04/22/2015 - 10:14am

Overnight closures on the A38 at Heathfield are due to start from the evening of Monday 27 April to enable a new bridge to be lifted into place. Work has been progressing well on the scheme during the winter - piling work and foundations of the structure will be completed shortly, and the 38 metre main span, along with the east side approach ramps, will now be craned into position during the overnight closures. A 500 tonne crane will be located on the southbound carriageway to carry out the lift. It is anticipated that four nights are required to complete the work, but five evening...

Plymouth community projects to benefit from Crowdfunder scheme

Plymouth community projects and social enterprises will be able to tap into funds as part of a pioneering crowdfunding scheme which launched last month.

Plymouth City Council has set aside £60,000 for projects on Crowdfund Plymouth – as part of Crowdfunder Local, a nationwide initiative, launched by Crowdfunder - the UK’s leading crowdfunding platform.

Crowdfunding is an alternative means of funding that allows individuals to take their ideas forward and make them a reality with the power of the crowd and change the world around them by promoting projects and giving away...

Complex cognition shaped Stone Age axe

New research has shown that the ability to make a Stone Age hand axe depends on complex cognitive control and memory.

The recently published results knock another chip off theories that pre-historic hand axes are simple tools that don’t involve complex functions of the brain made by ape-men just banging rocks together.

University of Exeter Archaeologist Professor Bruce Bradley co-authored the research with Emory University (USA) and Aix-Marseille University (France) colleagues, which highlights how making stone tools provide some of the most abundant evidence of human...

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