It’s a crisp and sparkling, sunny morning and in my Sigma office overlooking Plymouth’s Royal William Yard, the water’s looking particularly enticing. It’s a gorgeous spot and silently I pat my husband and business partner on the back for his enlightened suggestion to buy premises here 13 years ago, when Cremyll Street was still something of an ‘interesting’ area. I can’t help daydreaming, admiring the nautical view. Right, I must gather my thoughts. Keeping up with news at the moment, let alone getting on top of my workload and the other activities I seem to get involved in, is beginning...
FREE Family Drop-in days: re-make & craft (half-term) Tuesday 31 March, 10.15am - 12.30pm & 1.30 - 4pm Join Thomas Cadbury, Curator of Antiquities at RAMM, and Guild staff for the opportunity to handle prehistoric objects and investigate real Roman and Elizabethan artefacts as well as creating your own antiquities inspired by the exhibition. Children must be accompanied by an adult.
FREE Family drop-in day - join two exhibitors from Re-Making the Past exhibition at the Guild. Re-make & craft your own exciting work to take home! Shadow Play with Maps and Lichens with...
Run or Dye, the World’s most colourful 5km will be coming to Exeter on Saturday 30th May for a colour-filled 5km run in the stunning grounds of Great Fulford House in Dunsford.
The Fulford family will welcome runners of all ages and abilities, taking part in the most colourful party the Great House has ever seen.
Nearly 500 people have already entered into Exeter Run or Dye with participants encouraged to run, jog or walk to the finish line, getting covered head-to-toe in colour as they go. Four Dye Zones throughout the route will ensure there’s no getting away from the all...
Students across Devon have been gaining an insight into the training and work opportunities in renewable energy.
Kevin Ciolino, who has been a solar installer, operations manager and technical support specialist at SunGift Energy, met with Exeter College students at Falcon House Construction Training Centre.
Kevin said: "This is a tremendously exciting time for students who are interested in a career in renewable energy, whether that's Solar PV, solar thermal, biomass, heat pumps or wind turbines.
"Renewable energy has reached record levels, and with companies such...
A leading light in genetic diabetes research has been awarded a prestigious national award for outstanding scientists.
Professor Sian Ellard, at the University of Exeter Medical School, has secured a Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award.
Jointly funded by the Wolfson Foundation and the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS), the scheme aims to provide universities with additional support to enable them to attract science talent from overseas and retain respected UK scientists of outstanding achievement and potential.
Join artists Nicci Wonnacott & Catherine Cartwright for a FREE arts workshop, ‘My Fe-manifesto!’, inspired by the issues raised in Dreadnought South West's new play, The Orchard.
A leading light in genetic diabetes research has been awarded a prestigious national award for outstanding scientists.
Professor Sian Ellard, at the University of Exeter Medical School, has secured a Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award.
Jointly funded by the Wolfson Foundation and the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS), the scheme aims to provide universities with additional support to enable them to attract science talent from overseas and retain respected UK scientists of outstanding achievement and potential.
More than 40 staff, supporters and learners at WESC Foundation collected £1439 at Sandy Park on Saturday, when Exeter Chiefs played against London Welsh, winning 74/19 to storm into second place in the Premiership.
WESC Foundation was founded in 1838 and is based on the Topsham Road in Exeter. The charity is dedicated to sharing knowledge, expertise and technologies through effective partnerships and transforming the lives of those affected by visual impairment.
The local worthy cause is one of the 19 designated charities who benefit from the Chiefs Exeter Foundation. The...
The TaxPayers’ Alliance comes to Exeter to support local campaigners appalled at the council’s proposed expenditure of £20m of taxpayers’ money on a city centre swimming pool that no one really wants. "It has all the elements of a classic white elephant," says the Taxpayers’ Alliance South West spokesman Tim Newark, looking down on the bus station site from a nearby multi-storey car park.
"We are a national grassroots organisation dedicated to fighting a War on Waste, our current campaign, and in an age of austerity when there are so many demands on public money, the thought of...
