Hop along to Devon’s Crealy Great Adventure Park this Easter

It’s an Easter spectacular at Devon’s Crealy Great Adventure Park, this April. The multi-award winning Park is holding a show stopping line up of events and activities this Easter . Guests will have the chance to swing, swoop and soar through the air and experience the Park’s newest ride, The Flying Machine. Plus this Easter weekend will be packed full of fun and adventure with plenty to seek and explore.

The much loved annual Easter egg hunt will take place from Friday 18th April until Tuesday 22nd April, guests of all ages are invited to get involved and follow the Easter trail...

Have a go at bowls

Event Date: 
19/04/2014 - 2:30pm
Venue: 
Heavitree Pleasure Ground, Exeter

Heavitree Bowling Club commences its new season this Saturday 19 April at 2.30pm.

The club welcomes everyone to have a go at playing bowls, you will be made very welcome.

For all enquiries please telephone 01392 491124.

Computer repair con man guilty of deceiving Devon residents

A conman has been handed a one year jail sentence suspended for two years after being found guilty of unfair trading and fraud offences following an investigation by Devon and Somerset Trading Standards Service.

Exeter Magistrates Court heard how Henry Smith, 36, cheated three Devon residents, two of which were elderly, out of nearly £1,300 between 2012 and 2013 by fraudulently making false representations for computer repair work that he claimed to have carried out. The case concluded with guilty verdicts on all eight charges following a two day trial.

Trading under the...

Profits soar for Newton Abbot engineering business

Authored by Newshound
Posted: Mon, 04/14/2014 - 4:39pm

Newton Abbot based Centek has been placed seventh in the 2014 Sunday Times BDO ‘Profit Track 100’, the influential survey which identifies UK private companies with the fastest growing profits.

It is the only company from Devon & Cornwall to feature in the Top 100 and one of only 26 manufacturing businesses to appear in this year’s survey which was published this week.

Centek are world leaders in designing and manufacturing bow spring centralisers which are used by the oil and gas industries in the drilling process to keep casing centred in holes before they are...

Breathe Fest - Breathe for Jo Campaign

Event Date: 
11/07/2014 - 4:15pm to 12/07/2014 - 4:15pm
Venue: 
Northernhay Gardens, Exeter

Two stages packed with some of the very best live acts in the UK.

Musicians from all over Britain have got together on mass to raise money for the ‘Breathe For Jo Campaign.’

An eclectic mix of folk, Jazz, Gypsy Swing, Rock, Hip-Hop, Pop, Ska, Reggae, Acoustic & R&B set in the beautiful surrounding of Northernhay Gardens, featuring Adam Isaac Band, Melosa, Roger Styles, Carnivala, Luke Potter and many more!

All proceeds from this spectacular event will go towards possible life saving treatment for Jo Smith who has been diagnosed with 2 terminal diseases. You...

Drivers released after collison on A30

Authored by Huw Oxburgh
Posted: Mon, 04/14/2014 - 4:09pm

The A30 at Exeter has reopened following a serious road traffic collision earlier today. Emergency services were called at 7.35am to a collision between a lorry and a JCB digger on the eastbound carriageway at Alphington. The lorry driver was trapped in his vehicle and had to be released by the fire service. He was airlifted to Derriford Hospital by air ambulance while the JCB driver was treated at the RD&E for a neck injury.

Thankfully their injuries were less severe than initally thought and both drivers ave now been released from hospital. The eastbound carriageway was...

New bus route replaces services from Crediton

Authored by Huw Oxburgh
Posted: Mon, 04/14/2014 - 3:59pm

Stagecoach South West has today announced plans to introduce a new route replacing the 50, 51, 315 and 377 services.

The new route, the 5, will be introduced on Easter Monday and will see the frequency of buses between Exeter and Crediton increase to once every 15mins.

Beyond Crediton there will be an hourly service to Copplestone. At Copplestone the service splits, with regular onwards connections to Hatherleigh and Okehampton (5A, up to every 2 hours); North Tawton, Winkleigh, Great Torrington and Barnstaple (5B, up to every 2 hours) and Chulmleigh (5C, up to every hour...

Easter Eggstravaganza and Open Day

Event Date: 
18/04/2014 - 11:00am
Venue: 
Exeter Axhayes Adoption Centre, Little Hill Cottage, Clyst Honiton, Exeter

Join us at our adoption centre on Friday 18 April from 11am there will be plenty of fun for all!

There will be an Easter egg hunt, magician, bird of prey display, fun dog agility show, a selection of stalls, cream teas, ice cream, barbecue, and prizes to be won from our raffles and tombolas.

To make your trip to the centre complete, you can meet our adorable cats and kittens. We have many playful, loving and affectionate feline companions ready and waiting for a home like yours!

Admission is free with a donation of cat food.

All of the money raised from this...

The Future of Climate Science

Event Date: 
15/05/2014 - 5:30pm
Venue: 
Forum Building, Streatham Campus, University of Exeter

A public forum with world-leading IPCC Fifth Assessment Report authors

Did you know that the South West is home to one the largest concentrations of climate science researchers in the world? Exeter as a city contributes more to the UN’s iconic Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report than any other city in the world.

During this interactive event you will be able to speak directly to world-leading climate change researchers. Climate scientists will talk about how their research contributes to the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report (AR5), and you will be able to...

IPCC Report is Good for SW Jobs, Say Greens

IPCC Report is Good News for South West Jobs, Say Greens

South West Green Party has responded enthusiastically to the latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the UN body responsible for climate change policy. They are calling on UK politicians at all levels to endorse the call for a rapid transition to a renewable energy future.

The IPCC says that clean energy will have to increase threefold by 2050 if the earth is to avoid the worst impacts of climate change, with an emphasis on wind and solar power. [1] Like the Greens, the IPCC is...

Pages