Paul Tisdale confirms new City captain

Exeter City manager Paul Tisdale has confirmed that Scot Bennett has been named the new Exeter City captain.

Pat Baldwin, who captained the team in the other half, will continue his role as vice-captain.

Following the announcement, Tisdale said that the versatile 23-year-old is ready for his new responsibilities.

Scot has regularly worn the armband for the Grecians throughout youth levels and in reserve fixtures, and got his first chance to skipper the first-team in the absence of Danny Coles and Pat Baldwin at Accrington last season.

The Newquay-born man...

Gardens could help dementia care

Authored by News Desk
Posted: Wed, 07/16/2014 - 12:04pm

A new study has revealed that gardens in care homes could provide promising therapeutic benefits for patients suffering from dementia.

The research is published in the Journal of the American Medical Directors Association and by critically reviewing the findings from 17 different pieces of research, has found that outdoor spaces can offer environments that promote relaxation, encourage activity and reduce residents’ agitation.

Conducted by a team at the University of Exeter Medical School and supported by the National Institute for Health Research Collaboration for Applied...

Charity cycle ride along Exe Estuary Trail

Event Date: 
20/07/2014 - 11:00am
Venue: 
Haven Road, the Quay, Exeter

Join a charity cycle ride along the Exe Estuary this weekend to help the cancer charities which supported an Exeter family through their mother’s illness.

Bridget Johns, who lived at Ebford, sadly lost her battle to cancer earlier this year and despite great sadness, her family has organised a charity cycle ride and barbecue on Sunday 20 July 20 to raise money for local charity, Hospiscare, Cancer Research UK and Marie Cure Cancer Care.

The ride is being hosted by local cycle hire company, The Bike Bus, and will start at Exeter following a 20 mile route along the beautiful...

Four injured after car overturns near Bow

Authored by News Desk
Posted: Wed, 07/16/2014 - 11:00am

Four people were treated by ambulance crews after a car overturned near Bow in the early hours of this morning.

The fire service received a call from the ambulance service, reporting a road traffic collision at Great Wooden, near Bow, Crediton at 2.43am.

One fire appliance from North Tawton attended.

Fire crews confirmed a single vehicle road traffic collision with one car overturned on the public highway.

Four people were free and clear of the vehicle prior to the arrival of the fire service.

Fire crews made the vehicle safe and assisted police with...

Celebrate natural fibres at Killerton Spun

Authored by Mary Youlden
Posted: Wed, 07/16/2014 - 10:45am

This weekend (19 and 20 July), Killerton Estate is hosting a brand new event, Killerton Spun.

There will be demonstrations and exhibitions designed to show visitors the way in which materials such as wool, silk, cotton and linen can be transformed into fabrics, garments, braid and much more. Visitors will have the opportunity to watch demonstrations, including crochet, spinning, printing and lace making, all based within Killerton house and gardens. Denise Melhuish, Killerton’s House and Collections Manager, said: "We are working in collaboration with staff and students from Bicton...

Drivers urged to avoid the M5 after crash

Drivers are being urged to avoid the M5 southbound after a crash closed the motorway.

The incident happened just before 3am when two lorries collided.

One of the vehicles had broken down on the hard shoulder when it was hit by the second vehicle. The force of the impact knocked the stationery lorry onto its side.

Initially one of the drivers was trapped inside his cab and had to be freed by firefighters who also had to clear up spilled fuel.

He was taken to Musgrove Park Hospital where he is being treated for serious injuries. It is thought the driver of the...

New bus service as work continues on A380

Authored by Mary Youlden
Posted: Wed, 07/16/2014 - 10:11am

The South Devon Link Road project team has announced the launch of a new bus service, as construction on the A380 South Devon Link Road moves into the next phase.

The new bus route is being introduced as a result of the closure of five bus stops along the Link Road. Activity is planned on sections of the existing A380 which are currently used by traffic, so the bus stops in three locations will be permanently removed on 28th July.

The locations of the bus stops to be removed are:

• Milber Steps, Newton Abbot – North and Southbound • Aller Brake, Newton Abbot – North...

Royals visit the emergency services

Authored by Mary Youlden
Posted: Wed, 07/16/2014 - 10:02am

The Prince of Wales and The Duchess of Cornwall met members of the emergency services yesetrday to thank them and the Local Resilience Forum Partners for their work together during last winter’s severe weather and flooding that took place in the West Country.

Their Royal Highnesses visited the Fire Services Academy, Fire Behaviour School based at Exeter Airport where they watched a multi-agency training exercise by the Police, Fire and Ambulance services. The exercise was based upon a critical incident, of a hazardous materials spill, and showed all three services combining their...

Duchess of Cornwall officially opens city library

Authored by Mary Youlden
Posted: Tue, 07/15/2014 - 11:59pm

The Duchess of Cornwall officially opened Devon County Council’s state-of-the-art newly refurbished Exeter Library this afternoon.

The Duchess was given a tour of the library, which has been transformed by the council’s multi million pound investment, and was introduced to staff and community groups who regularly use the library’s extensive facilities.

Her Royal Highness's first stop was to meet the artists who created the Stack of Books art installation - Will Shakspear, Mark Collcutt and Matt Dingle. The art work, internally lit with LED lighting, depicts books with a...

Theo Brown and the Folklore of Dartmoor

Event Date: 
22/07/2014 - 8:00pm
Venue: 
The Exeter Daily Auditorium, Exeter Phoenix

Theo Brown and the Folklore of Dartmoor explores the hidden tales of seven Dartmoor villages through experiments in sound and vision. It also celebrates the life of the late folklorist and artist Theo Brown, whose publications, papers and woodcuts have lain dormant in the archives at Exeter University since her death in 1993.

Using Brown’s unpublished research, Ian Humberstone and David Chatton Barker have crafted an audio-visual retelling of Dartmoor folklore grounded in the moor’s topography, history and folk-culture.

The project was realised as a box-set of seven-inch...

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