Everyone is welcome to attend a public drop-in session in Ottery St Mary to hear what the next steps will be for the town’s local wild beavers.
The drop-in event is being held on Friday 6 February between 3pm and 7.30pm, at The Institute in Ottery St Mary.
A small population of beavers is living on the River Otter close to the East Devon town of Ottery St Mary.
The animals recently made national news headlines when Natural England decided to grant Devon Wildlife Trust with a licence which would allow the animals to live on the river while the charity monitored their...
South West Water today announced that from 1 April its average bill for households will fall by 3 per cent, bringing it down to its lowest level since 2007.
At the same time, the company will continue to invest heavily in improving services.
As part of its 2015-20 business plan, South West Water also launched today a five-year Price Promise to peg average household bills below inflation to the end of the decade while it spends £1billion to maintain and improve water and waste water services in the region.
The bill reduction in 2015/16 follows a 7 per cent drop in...
With less than eight months to go to the Rugby World Cup, the final preparations to showcase Exeter Rugby Club’s facilities on the world stage are well underway, backed by a suite of funding packages from Barclays.
Exeter, alongside Gloucester’s Kingsholm Stadium, are the only two rugby club venues in the country that have been selected to host matches as part of the Rugby World Cup 2015 which, according to a study undertaken by EY on behalf of the Organising Committee, has estimated £39m of economic activity up for grabs for Exeter, in welcoming players, fans and visitors to the...
Silverton’s drama troupe, the Silverton Luvvies, is gearing up for its next production, a murder mystery play set over six decades – “The Secret of Willoughby Hall”.
This follows the group’s sell-out production in 2014, which honoured the lives of Silverton’s WW1 soldiers, “Trenches and Wenches”. The play, as with all of the Silverton Luvvie’s productions, is an original work written by director Portia Smith and Iain Gonoude (in cahoots with the Luvvies themselves).
The three-act play, set in the fictional Willoughby Hall, starts in the 1950s and takes the audiences on a...
With Valentine’s Day just around the corner, Card Market, the greetings card store, wants to hear from Exeter’s most ardent wordsmiths.
Shoppers can post their declarations of love in the windows of the Exeter store with the most creative Casanova winning a romantic dinner for two. Look out for the huge Valentine’s heart in the window of the Exeter store ready for those perfectly penned words of love. It may be poetry or a paragraph, something personal or words that you want to tell the world, Card Market will be looking for the most creative and evocative words of love to fill...
East Devon District Council has now completed work on the coastal defence beach recycling project at Sidmouth’s main beach, with the exception of clearing some drains that had filled with pebbles as the beach levels rose, and the reinstatement of a boulder into a rock groyne.
The work, which began on 5 January, was finished well within the original estimated time frame of six weeks and has restored the beach’s profile back to a healthy level with a protective blanket of shingle.
However, this is not about making the beach look pretty. For over 20 years the shingle has...
Exeter’s Purity Boutique Spa has expanded its offering to include hair services, courtesy of experienced stylist Sarah Bainborough.
Sarah, who originally trained in Exeter over 12 years ago, has recently moved back to the area, after previously owning her own salon in Brighton.
Purity’s owner Mariam Badavi said: “It’s wonderful to have Sarah on board at Purity. We can now offer our clients a one-stop shop for hair and beauty making it ultra-convenient.”
Sarah, who has moved into one of the vintage-inspired rooms at the Cathedral Green based spa adds “I’ve had an...
The independent Local Government Boundary Commission for England is asking local people for their help to draw up a new pattern of council wards for Exeter City Council.
The consultation is the first part of an electoral review which will re-draw ward boundaries across the city.
The Commission has also announced that it is minded to recommend that the council should have 39 councillors in the future: one fewer than the current arrangements.
The Commission now needs information from people and groups across Exeter to help it to produce a new pattern of wards to...
Voting has opened for the Exeter Business Improvement District (BID).
640 businesses from across Exeter City Centre are eligible to vote on the scheme, which if voted in will raise £2.4 million over the next five years.
As the vote opens, three businesses within the BID area have their say:
Graham Austin, Corporate Director for Devon & Cornwall at Barclays
I think voting on the BID is vital if Exeter is to reach its potential. There is plenty of competition out there with other cities and towns raising their game and other competition coming in from...
Exeter City have added midfielder Tom McCready to the ranks at St James Park on a contract until the end of the season.
The 23-year-old was previously with Morecambe on non-contract terms, and played 45 minutes from the bench against the Grecians during City’s 2-0 win at the Globe Arena in October.
Read more at http://www.exetercityfc.co.uk/news/article/tom-mccready-joins-exeter-cit...
