This summer, the West Country is all fired up to host its first gathering of the global blacksmith community for over 30 years. The long wait will come to an end on 13th August when The International Blacksmiths Festival is held at Westpoint Exeter until 16th August 2014.
An exciting comeback for international blacksmithing talent, this event will showcase the best of the craft from around the world. The festival will be a celebration of the ancient tradition’s historic roots and its importance in today’s society. Enticing not only those well-versed in the trade, but also novices,...
Fire crews were called to a blaze at West Hill near Ottery St Mary shortly before 3.30 this morning.
Three appliances from Ottery St Mary, Sidmouth and Middlemoor were initially mobilised.
On arrival crews discovered a domestic garage well alight and the fire was spreading to the roof space of the bungalow.
Firefighters wore breathing apparatus and used compressed air foam was used in the roof space. Extra fire crews from Crediton, Budleigh Salterton,Cullompton and Seaton were mobilised.
Crews had the fire surrounded and contained to the roof by 7am....
England may be out but Devon’s Crealy Great Adventure Park will be celebrating the World Cup final this weekend, 12 and 13 July, and will be partying like they do in Rio.
Devon’s Crealy Great Adventure Park will be giving away a free football gift to anyone who wears their football shirt with pride this weekend plus £5 off their entry fee*
There will also be the chance to enter Crealy’s World Cup penalty shoot-out competition against the Crealy goalkeeper.
With over 60 rides and attractions, including the brand Flying Machine, Bugz Unlimited, The Lost World of...
Devon Community Foundation are set to hold their annual Volunteer of the Year awards in October at the Royal Albert Memorial Museum (RAMM) in Exeter, honouring the hard work and achievements of the hundreds of volunteers contributing to community groups across Devon.
The awards will have an added element of excitement as BBC Radio will be broadcasting the awards live with David Fitzgerald as host for the evening.
In 2013 BBC Radio Devon selected the Foundation as their Charity of the Year and together they raised nearly £37,000 helping local people to build better and more...
The 11th annual Startups Awards have launched and are now open for businesses across the South West to submit their entries.
Sponsored by Simply Business and organised by Startups.co.uk, the number one website for start-ups and small businesses, the awards recognise the success of Britain’s newest businesses which have been trading for three years or less.
Previous winners of the Awards have included some of the UK’s fastest rising brands, such as BeatThatQuote.com (sold to Google for £37.7m), The Cambridge Satchel Company, Raspberry Pi, Ella’s Kitchen, Naked Wines,...
A new discovery will make it possible to create pixels just a few hundred nanometres across that could pave the way for extremely high-resolution and low-energy thin, flexible displays for applications such as ‘smart’ glasses, synthetic retinas, and foldable screens.
A team of UK scientists, including Professor David Wright from the University of Exeter, explored the link between the electrical and optical properties of phase change materials (materials that can change from an amorphous to a crystalline state).
They found that by sandwiching a seven nanometre thick layer of...
The first adult sleep therapy clinic of its kind has opened in the South West.
Based in Exeter, the clinic provides expert adult sleep therapy with treatment for insomnia and related sleep problems.
Run by Sleep Physiologist Stephanie Romiszewski, the course of treatment combines a scientific knowledge base with a sleep specific form of cognitive behavioral therapy to offer an effective long-term treatment for insomnia and other sleep issues.
Stephanie said: “We all know how it feels to get one bad night's sleep- and how good it feels when you finally get that...
It may smell of flatulence and have a reputation for being highly toxic, but when used in the right tiny dosage, hydrogen sulfide is now being being found to offer potential health benefits in a range of issues, from diabetes to stroke, heart attacks and dementia.
A new compound (AP39), designed and made at the University of Exeter, could hold the key to future therapies, by targeting delivery of very small amounts of the substance to the right (or key) places inside cells.
Scientists in Exeter have already found that the compound protects mitochondria – the “powerhouse” of...
Newcomer Tomas Francis believes the professionalism on show at Exeter Chiefs is on a "different level" to anything he has experienced before in his playing career.
The 22-year-old is one of seven new signings that head coach Rob Baxter has added to the playing ranks this summer, joining the Devon outfit from Championship side London Scottish.
But already the young prop says the step up in standard at the Aviva Premiership club is clearly evident and that he knows to succeed he will have to put in the hard graft this pre-season.
Exeter’s High Street is enjoying a welcome injection of colour thanks to the goodwill of a local nursery.
Tim and Simon Boyce have kindly offered to sponsor and plant up some of the hanging baskets in the High street for a second successive summer.
The brothers, who own and run a specialist hanging basket nursery at Shillingford st George near Alphington, had noticed that due to Council cut backs, the hanging baskets near McGaheys on the High Street had not been refilled. They decided that it would be a nice gesture to fill the baskets and maintain them during the summer...
