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...

Local Exeter band, The Computers, will join the likes of Jamie Cullum and Laura Mvula when they perform at the Love Supreme Jazz Festival on the 5th of July.

The Computers, who are signed to the prestigious Fierce Panda independent label, are set to perform their punk/ rock tracks at the festival.

The Love Supreme Jazz Festival (the UK’s only major greenfield jazz festival) is located just outside of Brighton and runs from July 4th – 6th. Headliners include Soul II Soul (celebrating their 25th anniversary), Jamie Cullum, De La Soul, Courtney Pine, Imelda May and Gregory...

Four local charities are to benefit from donations by members of Exeter Business Club.

The club decided to split £2,000 equally between four Exeter-based charities, Devon In Sight, St Loyes Foundation, Friends of Buburi and Honeylands Children’s Charity.

Representatives from each charity attended a special presentation where they had an opportunity to talk to EBC members about the work they do and how the money would be spent. St Loyes Foundation fundraiser Phil Roberts said the donation would be split between their Transitions service which helps former Service men and...