18 lawyers went to Mo…

Eighteen members of staff from one of Devon and Cornwall’s leading law firms have been looking a little hairier this month, as they take part in Movember. As well as growing some spectacular moustaches, the team from Stephens Scown LLP has raised over £1,000.

The Movember Foundation is the leading global organisation committed to changing the face of men’s health. Movember is an annual event with a simple idea: to grow a moustache in November and raise money and awareness of men’s health, specifically prostate and testicular cancer. Movember has raised £346 million globally to date...

Leading Women UK's Inspiring Change Conference

Event Date: 
08/12/2014 - 9:30am to 2:00pm
Venue: 
Plymouth Science Park

Four women from a variety of industries will come together to form the 'Inspiring Change' panel at Leading Women UK's annual conference.

The panel combines the following women, who will share their stories and inspire debate as to how change can be made for women in the workplace.

  • Politics: GP turned MP, Dr Sarah Wollaston
  • Media: Award-winning broadcaster, Alexis Bowater
  • Innovation: Part of blur Group Global Services Exchange, Sarah Williams
  • STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering & Maths): Emma O'Mara a Health Physicist and Chair
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Exhibition reveals how Victorian artists reawakened the Gothic in the South West

From the spires of Truro Cathedral, to the rose window of Exeter’s Royal Albert Memorial Museum (RAMM), the South West boasts some of the finest medieval-style architecture in Britain – yet these landmarks were built in the 19th century. A new exhibition at the RAMM investigates how the Victorian mania for all things Gothic created some of the century’s most impressive architecture, art, and literature – and in the process transformed the West Country. Two experts in Victorian literature and history at the University of Exeter have a new book ‘Art and Soul: Victorian and the Gothic’ which...

Chiefs side to face La Rochelle

Exeter Chiefs head coach Rob Baxter believes tonight's European Challenge Cup encounter at La Rochelle could prove to be a “defining game” in Pool Two of this year’s competition.

Sitting top after the opening two rounds, the Chiefs will be looking to record only their second-ever victory on French soil when they tackle Patrice Collazo’s side at the Stade Marcel Deflandre.

Buoyed by an impressive run of recent results, which has included Premiership wins against Northampton Saints, Wasps and Saracens in as many weeks, Devon’s finest will be hoping for more of the same...

Festive fun at Cotley Farm

To celebrate the start of Christmas and the opening of a brand new Christmas tree site in Exeter, Cotley Farm Christmas Trees are having a special Charity Christmas Tree Event on Sunday 7 December.

Cotley Farm Christmas Trees will be providing high quality non-drop Christmas Trees just 10 minutes from the centre of Exeter throughout December.

Join Cotley Farm Christmas Trees on 7 December from 10am until 5pm at their Exeter site, Matford Home Farm, EX2 8XT for a Charity Christmas Tree Event in support of local charity Hospiscare.

There will be real Reindeer to meet...

Stagecoach confirms Boxing Day buses

Stagecoach South West confirmed today that it will be operating Boxing Day bus services on key routes across Exeter, East Devon and Torbay.

For anyone wishing to travel into and around Exeter the following services will be running:

  • Red Park & Ride will run a Sunday timetable, with the last bus from Honiton Road at 1718 and the last bus from the city centre at 1736. Buses will show ‘M2’ on the destination blind to serve all stops along the Pinhoe Road route
  • Route ‘A’ will run a Sunday timetable. The last bus from Alphington will be at 1721, the last bus
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Firefighters to stage 24 hour strike

Firefighters in England today announced a further 24 hour strike to take place from 9am on Tuesday 9 December.

This follows the government’s decision to commence the Parliamentary procedure to implement regulations for an unfair, unaffordable and unworkable pension scheme. After almost three years of discussions firefighters still face a stark choice of either being sacked or a severely reduced pension if they fail fitness tests as a result of naturally declining fitness through age. The evidence presented by the Fire Brigades Union has created considerable political opposition to...

Young voices raised in praise of Caves

CHILDREN and young people from across the region will come together on Sunday (DEC7) for the second in a series of three B Sharp Voices concerts of music and song inspired by Beer Quarry Caves.

The afternoon show at the Marine Theatre, Lyme Regis finds secondary school age soloists who have been working with professional musicians as part of the B Sharp Voices project performing with the 94-strong choir of primary school children from St Michael’s and

Mrs Ethelston’s in Lyme Regis, Marshwood Primary and Bridport St Mary’s who made their concert debut in October.

A...

Rolle Centre development moves forward

Rolle Exmouth Limited (REL) has been awarded a grant of £99,000 by Social Investment Business (SIB) Group from the Community Ownership and Management of Assets Feasibility Fund to develop plans for the future of the Rolle Centre site.

The seven acre site remains the property of Plymouth University, but has been unoccupied since the University relocated its Faculty of Education from Exmouth to its main Plymouth Campus in 2008. The site is located just half a mile from the town centre and the sea with views over the Exe Estuary and Haldon Hills.

The vision for REL is to...

Question of Sport at Sandy Park

Authored by Marc Astley
Posted: Tue, 12/02/2014 - 1:52pm

Six of the Westcountry's top sporting stars will descend on Exeter's Sandy Park Banqueting & Conferencing Centre to feature in a special 'Question of Sport' night in aid of the Exeter Foundation, writes Mark Stevens. Olympians Jo Pavey and Heather Fell head up a star-studded list of sporting guests, which also includes Exeter Chiefs duo Dean Mumm and Henry Slade, Exeter City's Danny Butterfield and Somerset cricketer Max Waller. Based around the same successful workings of the hit BBC show, the stars will have their sporting knowledge tested during a series of fun-filled rounds that...

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