Following the success of the first Exeter Street Food Festival last year, the organisers of the Exeter Street Food Market in the Guildhall Shopping Centre are planning an event that will be bigger and better for this year.
Taking place on 1st, 2nd and 3rd August, this year’s Exeter Street Food Festival will feature a wide array of international cuisine using the best local ingredients. A visit to the Festival will provide tastes from around the world, including tapas, paella, American, Creole, Middle Eastern and Italian cuisines – and that’s just for starters!
A local community café has been shortlisted for a high profile national award by UK charity and leading awarding body in deaf communications, Signature.
Exeter’s Café 55 has been named as one of four contenders in the Community Spirit category at the 2014 Signature Annual Awards.
The awards honour individuals, organisations and community groups that are striving to break down the barriers of communication between deaf and hearing people.
The public will choose the winner of the Community Spirit category, and Signature is urging people to go online to cast their vote...
Professional cycling stars past and present will help launch this year’s Devon Stage of the Friends Life Tour of Britain.
Chris Opie, of Rapha Condor JLT, and Dale Appleby, from NFTO Pro Cycling, will be joined by Devon based Olympian and former two-time British Road Race Champion Colin Lewis, on Friday (1 August), to check out parts of this year’s route and share their thoughts on the stage.
The Friends Life Tour of Britain will return to the county on Thursday 11 September, when the Devon Stage will start in Exmouth and finish in Exeter.
Over 200 players took part in the gents 4 Man team open. The club got extremely lucky with the weather given that a severe weather warning had been issued. The early starters of Mark & Paul Champion, Martyn Newbery and Jon Parry (Exeter Golf and Country Club) were the victors with a fine 86 points, narrowly beating another home team of Ian Black, John Fairman, Lyndon Bent & Richard Pillow.
Wednesday Stableford Divisional
Winners as follows:
Division 1 (0-9): 1 Ian Plowman 38 points, 2 Joseph Carnell 37, 3 Phil Mills 37. Division...
Otter Nurseries staff recently sprang into action after receiving an SOS phone call from Alan Titchmarsh.
The celebrity gardener was creating a garden in Bideford for his TV show, Love Your Garden and wanted to know if the East Devon garden centre had a ready supply of the specific plants needed for his garden design.
Hardy nursery worker Carla Ward-Best said: “At first we thought it was a wind up, but there’s no mistaking his voice. He was very knowledgeable about the plants he wanted, too.”
The garden in question was being created for the Woods family who had...
The tiny South American fur seal was born at Living Coasts in Torquay early on the morning of Tuesday 3 June.
When her mother was unable to produce milk, zoo keepers stepped in to feed her creamy fish milkshakes around the clock.
Now, Torquay’s coastal zoo is giving everyone who visits the chance to vote for her name.
Living Coasts’ Marketing Manager Katherine Sobey explained: “We have a shortlist of ten names. Some were suggested by staff, others by people on Facebook. We have a collecting box in the entrance hall. People can...
MPs and councillors visited the South Devon Link Road construction site earlier this month for an update on current activity and to find out more about the next phase of the project.
MPs Anne Marie Morris and Adrian Sanders visited the site, along with John Hart, Devon County Council Leader and Robert Excell, Executive Lead for Safer Communities, Highways, Environment and Sport at Torbay Council.
Devon County Council and Torbay Council, along with contractor Galliford Try, organised the visit - visitors were given a tour of the site along the route of the new road to view...
Over 100 people attended this month’s Exeter Chamber lunch which was held at the Royal Albert Memorial Museum (RAMM) last week.
Guest Speaker Ben Bradshaw updated members on current issues affecting the South West including the ongoing issue with broadband and how the cultural scene in the South West is thriving. Ben also spoke to attendees about unplanned developments on the outskirts of the city and how it is a positive move to expand but in a controlled and planned manner.
As well as issues close to home, he briefly spoke about the Scottish referendum and how he believes...
Devon broiler farmer Tamsin French will dress as a chicken called ‘Rosa’, and embark on a 39-day tour of the European Union on Friday (1 August).
The 39Days4Rosa tour will take in 21 EU Member States and finish at the European Parliament in Brussels on 8 September.
‘Rosa’ is calling for clear, mandatory method of production labelling of poultry meat. She wants consumers to be able to answer the simple question: how was this chicken kept? Her tour can be followed on Twitter (@39Days4Rosa, #39Days4Rosa) and Facebook (39Days4Rosa). Thirty-nine days is the average lifespan of...
South West Highways Ltd has joined forces with a local organisation (Pluss) that supports people with disabilities to achieve work by delivering meaningful work experience placements.
The Challenge:
As part of SWH’s National Skills Academy for Construction Programme we have committed to providing meaningful work placements to support candidates from disadvantaged groups who are struggling to find work in the construction industry.
Anna Cooper, the Project Skills Co-ordinator driving the National Skills Academy for Construction at SWH, has formed a strong partnership...
