Description: Join Dartmoor National Park rangers Ella Briens and Paul Glanville for a unique look at the Roborough area on two wheels.
Discover more about how the National Park Rangers help to manage this popular area. You can also learn more about how the cycling trails in this area link not only locally but also internationally with further work taking place as part of the Granite and Gears project in conjunction with Devon County Council.
Bring your own bike or alternativley bike hire is avaialble from Leg o Mutton Cycle Hire, Rockin Bikes, Yelverton, Tel. 01822 855933...
Children and adults alike are being encouraged to get creative over the next few weeks in the lead up to Devon’s newest pumpkin sculpture competition.
Being held to coincide with Halloween, The Magdalen Chapter in Exeter is inviting people of all ages to create wow-factor pumpkin carvings and take them to the hotel on Friday October 31 for judging.
The Pumpkin Sculpture Competition is being held in aid of Farms For City Children, the hotel’s new Charity of the Year. General Manager Fiona Moores said this was the perfect excuse for people to put their design skills to the...
Exeter City Council will be carrying out door-to-door enquiries this month as part of a new electoral registration system.
This summer marked the launch of a new system of individual electoral registration.
In mid-July, 80 per cent of Exeter residents received a letter confirming that they had been successfully transferred to the new system.
The remaining 20 per cent, were sent a form asking for further information. These may be people who have recently moved, or changed their name, for example.
The council will now begin to make door to door enquires to...
Enjoy great food, great wine and great company with these hosted evenings in our private dining room. Sip your welcome drink by the fire in the Library and retire for a five-course dinner with matching wines.
Thursday 23rd October – Game 7pm l £55 per person
A perfect time to enjoy these rich and robust flavours.
Thursday 20th November – Goat 7pm l £55 per person
Enjoy a variety of free range goat dishes, whilst listening to a great story; who knew there was a dark side to goat farming?
To view full menus for both evenings, click here ....
A prestigious new specialist school, designed to act as a regional centre of excellence for gifted young mathematicians, has been officially opened.
The Exeter Mathematics School, a sixth form school jointly sponsored by the University of Exeter and Exeter College, has been created to meet the needs of Maths students throughout the South West region.
It was officially launched on Friday19 September, when around 50 delegates gathered at the school, located near Rougemont Castle in the heart of Exeter city centre.
Guests at the launch included representatives from the...
Visitors to Sandy Park are used to rubbing shoulders with famous rugby players, but an exciting event at the recently redeveloped venue in November will give guests the opportunity to mingle with a host of celebrities from the stage and screen.
The third annual Harry’s Ball, taking place on Saturday 15th November at Sandy Park, boasts a glittering celebrity line-up from cast members of popular reality shows Made in Chelsea and The Only Way is Essex, plus star of Coronation Street Kym Marsh and Hollyoaks’ Ashley Taylor Dawson.
Adventure seeker Derek Brown has successfully completed the Ironman Wales competition, which is considered to be one of the toughest Ironman courses on the international circuit.
Incorporating a choppy 2.4 mile swim, a 112 mile hilly cycle followed by a full marathon through the narrow streets of Tenby, West Wales, Derek completed the course in a fantastic time of 12 hours and 35 minutes.
As part of his tough training regime, Derek completed several competitions to gain experience and prepare for the Ironman, including the River Dart 10km swim, the Bicton Blister 10 mile...
On Saturday 4 October at 7.30pm a concert of glorious music for choir and brass is to take place in the Methodist Church in Sidwell Street.
The music to be performed is by Venetian composers from the 16th– 17th centuries, including Gabrieli, Schutz and Monteverdi.
In true Venetian fashion, the different ‘choirs’ of brass instruments and voices will be positioned at various points in the church, making the most of the wonderful gallery and staircases and the fantastic acoustic.
Indeed the church will become Exeter’s equivalent to St. Mark’s Basilica, Venice!
Australian Pat Phibbs has today agreed a short-term deal to stay with the Exeter Chiefs.
With Dave Lewis currently sidelined with an elbow injury and fellow scrum-half Haydn Thomas having taken a bang to the head in last Friday's win at Gloucester, Chiefs head coach Rob Baxter is keen to ensure he has sufficient cover in the half-back role.
Phibbs - who is in his second spell with the Devon club - initially joined a few weeks ago on trial, but his efforts in both training and for the Braves in the Aviva Premiership A League have clearly impressed Baxter to reward the 32-...
The UK’s first urban mushroom farm launches this week growing gourmet mushrooms from recycled coffee grounds - showcasing a new model for the future of sustainable food grown in cities.
The team at GroCycle is proud to announce the official opening of the UK’s first Urban Mushroom Farm, where a huge waste stream, coffee grounds, are used to grow protein-rich Oyster mushrooms.
GroCycle Urban Mushroom Farm in Exeter is a showcase for how food can be grown sustainably.
Based in disused office space, the farm takes coffee grounds from local cafés and uses them as a...
