The University of Exeter has been named the best university in the UK for international student satisfaction. The StudyPortals International Student Satisfaction Awards 2014 are based on 16,427 comments made by 6,923 international students in Europe. These reviews provide rare insights into universities’ performance from an international student perspective. The universities included in the award had to have received more than 20 reviews during the last academic year. Institutions were given an Outstanding Student Satisfaction Award if their average rating was 9.5 or higher out of 10. The...
A unique development that will provide 18 affordable highly energy efficient homes in Dartmoor National Park, is about to start on-site.
The £3.6million project in Christow is being led by the Christow Community Land Trust (CCLT) and supported by Teign Housing, which has invested £574k and will manage the properties once built.
Most of the properties will be built to full PassivHaus standards, which is one of the highest standards of environmental building. Almost no heating is required and it is believed that the total energy bills for these properties will be just £100 a...
This year’s Devon Stage of the Friends Life Tour of Britain generated more than £6 million for the local economy, according to an independent report.
The report, commissioned by The Tour, has revealed that the Devon Stage on Thursday 11 September, hosted by Devon County Council and sponsored by SWH Ltd, attracted 230,000 spectators.
The crowds that turned out along the 110mile (177km) route from Exmouth to Exeter to be part of the UK's largest free-to-watch sporting event were on par with last year’s record breaking figures.
The UK housing marketing is entering a new phase. It has been through a boom, a bust and a recovery cycle, and as we head into 2015 and a year that will see the formation of a new Government, we are now entering a more stable, yet still challenging era.
That’s according to leading property consultancy JLL’s new Residential Market Review, published this month which predicts that South West house prices will rise by 4% in 2015 and 24% over the next five years. This rate of increase is second only to London and the South East and faster than the UK average.
Enjoy great food, great wine and great company with this hosted evening in The Magdalen Chapter's private dining room. Sip your welcome drink by the fire in the Library and retire for a five-course dinner with matching wines.
Feast on a variety of free range goat dishes, whilst listening to a great story - who knew there was a dark side to goat farming?
It's a party night this week at Tiverton Community Arts Theatre
TCAT are delighted to be welcoming The Chicago Blues Brothers to Tiverton on 15th November. Show starts at 8pm.
This is all set to be a highly charged, fun, party night. With classic good time songs such as “Everybody Needs Somebody”, “Shake a Tail Feather”, “Soul Man” “Gimme Some Lovin” “ Theme from Rawhide” and many more. The Blues brothers are bound to get everyone dancing.
The mid November date is ideal to start getting everyone in the festive mood.
There was a time when hideous tales of werewolves and hounds struck fear into the hearts of people across Devon. Were these tales just folklore? Or were the stories true? Many people believed it was the latter.
There were so many stories doing the rounds in the 19th century that a whole collection of them were gathered up in his West Country travels by famous song and story collector, the Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould.
Some of the stories from his famous work, The Book of Were-wolves, are the inspiration for a show being taken on a tour of Devon by the Wren Band, who have...
New food labelling regulations that come into force from Friday 12 December will mean that all food products, bought from shops or in cafes and restaurants, will have to display information about its allergen content.
Specific allergens, which can cause serious health problems for some people will need to be highlighted so that consumers can make informed choices about their purchases.
Those allergens include: Cereals containing gluten; crustaceans; eggs; fish; peanuts; soybeans; milk; nuts; celery; mustard; sesame; sulphur dioxide or sulphites (at a level above 10mg/kg or...
Over 400 years ago a ‘terror’ cell in London headed up by Robert Catesby planned an extreme act of violence (blowing up parliament) as a reaction to the intolerance and persecution inflicted on his community by what was felt to be a very oppressive monarch (King James I). What had initially been a plan for regicide was transformed into a plot to destroy the government in one single explosive event. We commemorate this every year with our own fires and fireworks on November 5th.
Much has been said emotively about ‘extremism’ in recent months. The word has been linked with those who...
A director of an Exeter-based luxury home design business has been shortlisted for a national award.
Mark Newbery of Sapphire Living Space, Topsham, achieved the esteemed nomination for a kitchen he designed for a Torquay home.
Mark will find out if it has won the award, run by Designer magazine, a special lunch in London’s Embankment Gardens on November 12.
He said it was exciting to be on the shortlist.
“It is normally London-based companies that are shortlisted so it is hugely exciting that we are on it. There have also been an unprecedented number of...
