Exeter School has announced to parents plans for a new pool and changing facilities thanks to an anonymous donation.
A donor, who wishes to remain unnamed, has generously donated the funds to build a new 25-metre, covered, competition-standard, swimming pool.
The school governors have agreed to match the funding to enable much-needed improvements to the boys’ changing room and locker facilities and to create an exciting list of improvements to spectator and participants’ facilities in the Sports Hall.
The school is currently in the process of submitting plans for...
Changes to the way people in Exeter are allocated social housing could be implemented in an effort to prioritise those in the greatest housing need.
Exeter City Council is looking at removing Band E from its housing allocation system.
Doing so would allow the Council to spend more time working with those with the greatest housing need, such as vulnerable adults and families with safeguarding issues and health and wellbeing needs.
Currently people registering with the Council for housing in the city are placed in one of five bands with 'A' signifying the greatest...
People whose homes have been affected by flooding in Topsham and Exeter are being invited to an event looking at flood prevention.
The Topsham Emergency Group (on behalf of Topsham Community Association) is hosting a Flood Fair on Friday 4 July from 3pm to 8pm at Matthews Hall in Topsham.
The focus is on flood prevention in Topsham, but any Exeter residents affected by flooding in February are invited to attend.
The Fair will include an exhibition and information on the following:
Individual property protection – information on various forms of flood
A new £820,000 classroom building will be officially opened at Exminster Primary School later this week.
The four-classroom block replaces two outdated classrooms and adds two new classrooms to expand the school.
The project will be officially opened by the Chairman of Devon County Council, George Gribble, on Wednesday (June 25).
Devon’s Cabinet Member for Schools, James McInnes, said: “Exminster School has been expanding over a number of years to meet the need to provide school places for children living locally.
Princesshay, in conjunction with conservation charity Paignton Zoo, is hosting a bug eating challenge from 11am-3pm on Friday 4 July to launch the start of its Summerdine restaurant promotion.
Visitors to Princesshay Square will be tempted to try mealworms, locusts, crickets and weaver ants with stickers and certificates awarded to the brave. There will also be giant summer games including jenga and connect 4 and free face painting for families to enjoy throughout the day.
Princesshay is offering a free day out for a family of four to Paignton Zoo and a range of other UK...
The new Bishop of Exeter is to spend the days before his installation at Exeter Cathedral on a pilgrimage around Devon.
Bishop Robert will spend several days visiting projects and people in different areas of the county as he gets to know the diocese, before he formally starts work as Bishop of Exeter on 5 July.
As he travels around, he will be listening to people’s concerns and offering to pray for them. He will be handing out a special prayer card and asking for their prayers too, as he begins his work as Bishop.
Thousands of St John’s Gospels – replicas of the gospel given to all troops as they were sent off to fight in the First World War – are to be given to Devon’s school children as part of centenary commemorations.
The Gospel, complete with some hymns and paintings, was designed to fit in soldier’s top pocket, and to provide comfort and hope in the trenches.
Some 43 million were given away during the war by SGM LIfewords and it has produced the replica gospel to mark this year’s anniversary. In partnership with the mission project Hope 2014, 11,000 copies have been given to...
The 2014 UK Mobile & App Design Awards were recently held at BOXPARK Shoreditch on Wednesday 18 June, as part of London Technology Week 2014.
The UK App Design Awards were created to honour the hard work of designers from across all sectors and industries and featured an impressive 160 entrants for 30 award categories. This is the inaugural year for this Awards evening, which has been well-received by the industry for recognising the increasingly important relationship and exchange of ideas between clients and their designers.
Dining in the Dark, a gourmet fundraising event launched to raise both awareness of visual impairment and vital funds for WESC Foundation – the South West’s specialist centre for visual impairment – is being hosted once again by the Salutation Inn, Topsham, on 11, 12 and 13 November.
The hugely successful inaugural Dining in the Dark event took place on 1 May and was the first of its kind in the region. An intrepid group of diners, including Cllr Rachel Lyons who was Lord Mayor of Exeter at the time, enjoyed a mouthwatering three-course menu specially created by Chef Director of...
Paignton Zoo keepers Dave Rich and Lorraine Miller are going to New Zealand to start a new life together – along with a zoo full of animals.
The couple will be taking their experience and training to New Zealand, where they have both been offered jobs at Orana Wildlife Park, near Christchurch. And their experience of working with gorillas means that they could be part of an historic move to bring these charismatic great apes to New Zealand for the first time.
How has this come about? Dave: “We’ve learned a lot and done a lot at Paignton Zoo and both reached senior keeper...
