Exeter Comedy Grove is a brand new comedy club which opens on Friday 17 October at The Lemon Grove, Exeter University.

We will be featuring the best comedians from the national stand-up circuit with many who have appeared on shows such as Mock the Week and Never Mind the Buzzcocks.

To be in with a chance of winning a pair of tickets (worth £10 each) to the opening show, all you have to do is answer this simple question:

What date does the Exeter Comedy Grove open for the first show?

Email your answer, along with your name and telephone number to: lukem27@...

Police are appealing for the public’s help in finding a man who has gone missing from Exeter. Matthew Rogers, 25, went missing from his home in the St Thomas area of the city on Monday 26 May. He is described as white, 6ft 2ins, of slim build, with short fair-coloured hair. He usually wears jeans, a casual top and black boots. Detective Constable Emily Sheppard, based in Exeter, said: “This is not the first time Matthew has gone missing however his family are very concerned about him. “He has not made any contact with them since Friday (30 May) and they don’t know where he has gone. “...

Events are taking place across Devon to mark Britain’s first ever Ecover Go Blue! weekend.

Almost 50 events have been organised across the country to celebrate our seas, shores and marine wildlife. Among them are a sponsored swim at in Brixham, a stand-up paddle board event in Sidmouth, a sea-themed story-reading at a primary school in Exmouth, and a schools science and water sports day in Plymouth.

Go Blue! is part of the 2014 Ecover Blue Mile programme and has captured the imagination of people right across the country.

So far, 46 events have been organised for Go...

Woodbury Park was the venue for a superb Makeover event arranged by Penny Albertella, the director of the Southernhay Clinic and the Dream-A-Way Dream Team.

Nearly 100 ladies enjoyed delicious canapés and refreshing Pimms in the newly refurbished Clubhouse.

Guests were invited to meet with many experienced and varied practitioners and to meet with the therapists from Bodyzone.

The ladies were treated to complimentary manicures from a professional team of beauty students from Exeter College.

There was even an opportunity to speak to jewellery experts from...

There are only a couple of days until the Devon Business Expo 2014 opens on Thursday 5th June at Matford Centre, Marsh Barton organised by thebestofexeter with headline sponsor, Basepoint Business Centres. The event kicks off at 11am with a welcoming address by Michelle Downey, Head of ‘bestof’ and seminar. Her talk will be about the things that business owners can do, not only to bring out the fun aspect of their business but how to stand out from the crowd.

Over 800 people have registered to attend the Expo which concludes with an ‘After Show Networking Party’ at 5.30pm sponsored...

A student at the University of Exeter has been honoured with a prestigious international award, designed to promote female excellence in the pioneering sphere of aerospace research.

Anusha Mujumdar has been selected to receive a Zonta International Amelia Earhart Fellowship – one of only 35 students worldwide to be bestowed with the coveted award.

The third year PhD student in Applied Mathematics, from Bangalore, received the award to assist in her pioneering research, which will be used to help develop space craft control for the proposed Mars Sample Return mission,...

Update: The bomb disposal unit has made the device safe and the road has re-opened.

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Six homes have been evacuted today after the discovery of an unexploded device in Axminster.

A Royal Navy bomb disposal team have been called to the scene after a 'historic German device' was discovered in a garden.

Police have set up a 20m cordon around the garden in Alexandra Road and evacuated homes in the surrounding area as a precaution .

Six properties were evacuated and the bomb disposal unit is on route to make the device safe....

Summer downpours and flash flooding are expected to become far more frequent across South England and Wales according to new research by the Exeter based Met Office and Newcastle University. The study, published in the Nature Climate Change, used a high-resolution model to predict the effects that climate change would have on UK’s summer floods. They found that, in a worst case scenario hourly summer rainfall could become five times more frequent by the end of the century, which would hugely increase the chance of ‘flash floods.’ Dr Lizzie Kendon, lead author of the study from the Met...

With Summer finally underway the Met Office has launched a brand new web page to help make the most of the holiday season. Sunday saw the official start of British Summer time. Summer in the meteorological calendar covers the duration of June, July and August, or by the astronomical calendar it begins around 21 June on a day referred to as the summer solstice.

The new pages allow visitors to find useful tips and information to make the most of the summer months, whatever the weather. Developed with a range of partners such as the RNLI, CancerResearch, VisitEngland and VisitScotland...

Following their hugely successful productions of The Comedy of Errors and Two Gentlemen of Verona, Shakespeare at the Tobacco Factory, Bristol's internationally-renowned ensemble company, return for their third visit to the Exeter Northcott Theatre with one of theatre's most celebrated comedies.

Expelled from the city, Rosalind and Orlando – the one fleeing a tyrranous uncle, the other a murderous brother – rediscover each other in the Forest of Arden. But what awaits them in that Arcadian wilderness? Will they find true love, or just lose themselves? Are they merely players in a...