The Magdalen Chapter is delighted to announce it has been nominated as a finalist in The Food & Travel Magazine Readers Awards 2014.
For the second year running, the Exeter hotel is one of five finalists in the City Hotel of the Year category. The hotel is defending its title, having last year been crowned the winning establishment in this category.
The Magdalen Chapter is one of only two properties outside of London to be nominated in this prestigious category. Other properties nominated include The Berkeley in London, Charlotte Street Hotel in London, Mandarin...
We’ll be back on Monday 7th July for another great afternoon of summer jumps racing. Enjoy a day out in Devon with friends, family or colleagues!
Racing will start at 2:15pm with gates opening at 12:15pm. The last race is at 5:15pm.
Tickets for the day can be bought online at www.newtonabbotracing.com or by calling the racecourse office on 01626 353235. Tickets are priced at £12 for the Course Enclosure and £18 for the Paddock Enclosure.
Children aged 16 and under and students with a valid photographic student ID / NUS card can enjoy free entry.
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Being interested in vintage & classic cars or in other words “petrol heads”, We have decided to go forward and organise an exclusive event: Turner Locker Barnfield Revival – 7th September 2014 – Barnfield Crescent.
What to expect?
The idea is to gather around 50 vehicles (cars & bikes) from the 1930’s to the 1960’s, and in an...
Exeter mum Jo Smith, who is suffering from two terminal conditions, has made a heartbreaking decision to return from Thailand where she was promised pioneering treatment.
The 36-year-old was diagnosed with a rare heart and lung disease (pulmonary hypertension) almost a year after giving birth to her son Rudey, now aged three, and within months was told she had lymphatic cancer.
She is thought to be the only person in the world with both diseases.
Jo, a former Exeter College student, cannot undergo treatment for the cancer because of the risk to her heart and lungs...
A new collection of works by one of the world’s most respected comic book artists will be on display in Exeter from this weekend. Alex Ross, who is widely considered to be one of the most pre-eminent and well-respected comic book artists in the history of the field, has produced six new signed limited edition prints featuring DC Comics superheroes Superman and Batman which will be on display at Castle Galleries, Exeter from Saturday 28th June. As a three year old, Alex was regularly illustrating and encouraged by his artist mother and admiring his ministerial father’s moral framework, he...
Three mountains in three countries in 24 hours – that’s the challenge facing animal staff from two local zoos.
Keepers from zoos including Paignton Zoo Environmental Park and Newquay Zoo in Cornwall are taking on the Three Peaks Challenge in aid of wildlife conservation.
Paignton Zoo keeper Lewis Rowden and Nicole Howarth, Johanna Bellerby and Emma Sweetland, all from Newquay Zoo, are part of a team of eight hoping to raise money and awareness for Critically Endangered Sulawesi crested black macaques and for Selamatkan Yaki, a conservation project for the species run by the...
Chief Executive of local adoption charity Families for Children Caroline Davis will receive her OBE from Queen at Buckingham Palace today (Friday).
Caroline was awarded the honour in the New Year for her services to children and families in the south-west.
Caroline has been Chief Executive of Families for Children Adoption Agency based in Buckfastleigh for 22 years and during that time has helped to place over 500 children for adoption.
Caroline said “I was very excited to receive my OBE today. It comes at a very exciting time for Families for Children as we are...
Staff from one of Devon and Cornwall’s leading legal firms will be volunteering as mentors to young people starting out in business, through the New Enterprise Allowance scheme.
The mentors include lawyers from a variety of disciplines including property, dispute resolution, renewable energy and employment law, as well as specialists in marketing, finance and IT from Stephens Scown LLP. The mentors are drawn from the firm’s three offices in Exeter, St Austell and Truro.
The New Enterprise Allowance (NEA) scheme is available to people under the age of 30 who are out of work...
Communities say they are keen to work with Devon County Council to ensure their library service continues.
Towns and villages, which had feared a potential loss of their library services due to budget cuts, are saying that alternative solutions are achievable if people put their minds to it.
So far, more than two out of every three of the 2,500 people (67.7 per cent) responding to the council’s consultation agree with the proposals for their local library.
More than eight out of every 10 respondees agree that sharing library space with multiple services – the...
Devon Partnership NHS Trust has published the findings of a report into an allegation against Jimmy Savile.
The allegation, by Ms X, relates to a sexual offence that took place in 1970 at Digby Hospital in Exeter. The hospital closed in 1987.
Ms X contacted Devon and Cornwall Constabulary as part of Operation Yewtree and the investigation has been conducted by Devon Partnership NHS Trust in its role as the current provider of mental health services for the county.
Commenting on the publication of the report, Melanie Walker, Chief Executive of Devon Partnership NHS...
