Milling at Cricklepit

Event Date: 
13/02/2015 - 10:00am
Venue: 
Cricklepit Mill, Exeter Quay

Watch local history come alive as the mill’s waterwheel starts turning and grain is ground into flour.

Volunteer millers will show you how the mill works and if you feel inspired to get baking, the stone-ground wholemeal flour is available to buy.

Free admission and there is no need to book in advance except for groups and schools.

10am-noon

www.devonwildlifetrust.org

Milling at Cricklepit

Event Date: 
09/01/2015 - 10:00am
Venue: 
Cricklepit Mill, Exeter Quay

Watch local history come alive as the mill’s waterwheel starts turning and grain is ground into flour.

Volunteer millers will show you how the mill works and if you feel inspired to get baking, the stone-ground wholemeal flour is available to buy.

Free admission and there is no need to book in advance except for groups and schools.

10am-noon

www.devonwildlifetrust.org

Baby and Children's Market

Event Date: 
07/02/2015 - 9:00am
Venue: 
St James High School, Exeter

Lots of stalls bursting with top quality like new baby and children's items from birth to eight years plus a small selection of unique businesses.

Open 9.30am-11.30am.

Details: https://www.facebook.com/events/1554619451447389/?ref=2&ref_dashboard_filter=explore&unit_ref=suggested_events

Tiny Tots Devon Baby & Children’s Market

Event Date: 
21/02/2015 - 11:00am
Venue: 
Magdalen Court School, Victoria Park Road, Exeter

Lots of stalls, jewellery make and take session, tea, coffee, cakes, bouncy castle.

Children welcome and plenty going on to keep them amused.

Free parking on site.

11am-1pm

More details: https://www.facebook.com/events/1523174817932373/?ref_newsfeed_story_type=regular

New Year brings milder weather

The last few days have seen some crisp, wintry days and nights with the coldest temperatures of the year so far.

The weather is set to change with a rise in temperatures and a move to more unsettled weather, but what's the weather looking like for New Years Eve itself?

If you're heading out of Devon to celebrate the New Year, forecasters say it will be breezy with rain in western parts through the afternoon and evening of New Year's Eve. This is likely to become lighter as midnight approaches and should have eased across Western Scotland and Northern Ireland. Although it...

Flybe announce new Exeter to Deauville route

A new route from Exeter will operate to Deauville (DOL) in Normandy from June 2015.

Flybe, the airline with its headquarters in Exeter, has announced that a twice weekly service will operate on Thursdays and Sundays between 25 June and 26 September 2015.

Exeter Airport Managing Director, Matt Roach, said: “We welcome this new route into France which will give our passengers improved transport links to the Normandy area.

"Northern France is a popular destination for many travellers from the South West and we expect these flights to perform well over the peak summer...

Run reaches 2,222 mile finale in Exeter

Twenty-one-year-old Gilbert Toby Ip aims to complete an incredible year-long challenge in Exeter High Street on New Year’s Eve.

Gilbert, an ex Student of Queen’s College Taunton who is currently studying at Bath University, set himself the enormous target of running 2014 miles during 2014, all in aid of Help for Heroes and The Royal Marines Charitable Trust Fund.

Having completed 2014 miles during early December he simply moved his goal to 2,222 miles - culminating in a staggering 100km ultra-marathon on New Year’s Eve.

Gilbert has chosen to complete his epic...

Coldharbour Mill Steam Up

Event Date: 
01/01/2015 - 10:30am
Venue: 
Coldharbour Mill, Uffculme

Don't miss this unique experience. See the Mill's rare 1910 Pollit & Wigzell 300hp steam engine, 1867 Kittoe & Brotherhood Beam Engine and Lancashire Boiler operating under steam. And, not forgetting the fully restored Water Wheel built especially for the mill in 1821.

A fantastic event and an amazing experience.

On Steam Up days, the Engines run between 11.00am and 3.30pm. The Mill-site, shop and refreshment trailor are open from 10.30am.

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The terrifying rise of the Gothic

Authored by Mary Youlden
Posted: Tue, 12/30/2014 - 11:29am

To mark the 250th anniversary of the earliest Gothic novel, first published on Christmas Eve 1764 as a seasonal ghost story, a new edition of The Castle of Otranto introduced by a University of Exeter academic is now available. Author Horace Walpole described his literary work as a “Gothic story”, yet for him the Gothic meant very different things from what it might do today. While the Gothic was associated with the supernatural, it was predominantly a theory of English progress rooted in Anglo Saxon and medieval history. In Professor Nick Groom’s introduction, he explores the novel's...

Exeter school’s wildlife garden gets new lease of life

Authored by Mary Youlden
Posted: Tue, 12/30/2014 - 10:20am

Volunteers from EDF Energy have helped Devon Wildlife Trust improve a wildlife garden at an Exeter school, as part of the ongoing Exeter Wild City project.

The garden at Stoke Hill Infants School now has much improved disabled access while new homes have been created for wildlife including beetles, newts and frogs.

Luke Workman from Devon Wildlife Trust said: "During a planning visit with school Head Teacher Sarah Mackay we decided to widen the path around the whole of the garden to make it accessible for all. The job required a large team so we knew EDF’s Helping Hands...

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