RockSolidRace at Escot Park

Event Date: 
21/03/2015 - 10:00am to 10:00pm
Venue: 
Escot Park, Devon

RockSolidRace is a full on cocktail of mud, sweat and team work that will push your mettle to the max. Overall a great event at a brilliant venue, with lots of obstacles, showers on finish and lots of smiley faces. Choose to run 5km, 10km or 15km in a team or as an individual.

Sign up now at www.rocksolidrace.com

Exeter West Lions Club Fun Day

Event Date: 
26/05/2014 - 12:00pm
Venue: 
Alphington Sports Ground, Exeter

The Lions Club of Exeter West are holding their Fun Day on Monday 26 May at Alphington Sports Ground in Exeter. A great day out for all the family with lots to see and do as well. Help the Lions support local projects and go along between noon and 5.30pm.

Magic mayhem’s anniversary show!!!

Event Date: 
30/05/2014 - 8:00pm
Venue: 
Exeter Live Lounge

The team at magic mayhem whole like to invite you to celebrate our anniversary by inviting you to Magic mayhem’s anniversary show!!! With Award winning Magician Marc Lobb, The Magic of Mindini and festival of freaks star Kalcano. This is truly going to be a night you will never forget!! The show takes place at Exeter Live Lounge and tickets are £5 each. For any queries you may have feel free to email the event organiser on: kalcanomagic@gmail.com Discount available for groups over 10 Tickets available hear: www.ticketsource.co.uk/date/105879

Princesshay raises £7,500 for MS Society

Authored by News Desk
Posted: Thu, 05/08/2014 - 3:45pm

The partnership between the MS Society and Land Securities, who jointly own Princesshay together with The Crown Estate, has raised more than £7,500.

The partnership with Princesshay began in the spring of 2012 and since then, the MS Society has been actively fundraising and raising the awareness of the charity at various events held in Princesshay. The MS Society is the leading national charity committed to beating MS – more than 100,000 people are living with the condition in the UK. MS affects almost three times as many women as men and people are usually diagnosed in their 20s...

Exeter Chiefs gear up for The Big Walk 2014

Exeter Chiefs are throwing their sizeable weight behind the forthcoming ‘Exeter Foundation Charity Walk’ which has been set up to support a minimum of 20 local charities and organisations. The annual 10-mile sponsored walk, which will start and finish at Sandy Park, takes in a flat and scenic route around the River Exe Valley and is open to keen or social walkers, who are aged 12 years or over. Helping to raise funds for the club’s official charity, the event will be held on Saturday, May 31st at 10.30am. Building on the success of previous years, once the walk has been completed by...

Exeter City releases seven players

Exeter City have released details of the retain list following the completion of the 2013/14 campaign.

Sam Parkin, John O’Flynn, Alan Gow, Elliott Chamberlain, Jacob Jagger Cane and Jacob Wannell have not been offered new contracts with the club. This is in addition to Artur Krysiak, whose release was announced on Thursday morning.

Matt Oakley, Matt Gill, Eliot Richards, Jimmy Keohane, Christy Pym and James Hamon will be made offers with the intention of keeping them at the club. Discussions are currently ongoing with Arron Davies and Jake Gosling with news still to follow...

Michelmores' strong year end results

Michelmores has announced its unaudited financial results, posting a 15% increase in turnover to £26 million for the financial year ending April 2014. Profits are also predicted to show growth in line with increased turnover.

Staff will immediately benefit with the award of a minimum 3 per cent of salary bonus across the firm.

During the past financial year Michelmores has also added over 100 people to its headcount across its offices in Exeter, London and Bristol, bringing the firm to 400 people, including partner lateral hires in tax, private wealth, corporate, financial...

Russian Warships pass South West Coast

Authored by Huw Oxburgh
Posted: Thu, 05/08/2014 - 1:28pm

A group of Russian warships with nuclear capabilities has passed by the South West coast today as part of a routine transit into the North Atlantic.

Russian news agencies this morning reported that the aircraft-carrying cruiser the Admiral Kuznetsov and the heavy nuclear guided-missile cruiser Petr Velikiy had entered the English channel.

The Russian vessels have been shadowed through their transit by British destroyer, the HMS Dragon, in what the Royal Navy describes as a “well-established and standard response to such events.”

The HMS Dragon was involved in a...

Exeter’s super slimmers support Clothes Throw

Authored by Penniball
Posted: Thu, 05/08/2014 - 12:24pm

Exeter’s Slimmers have joined together to spring-clean their wardrobes and donate their clothes to Cancer Research UK in support of the national fundraising campaign ‘The Big Slimming World Clothes Throw’.

Members of all the Exeter and Crediton Slimming World groups are collecting all their unwanted clothes, shoes and accessories to donate to their local Cancer Research UK shop to support the campaign which runs from May 5th for two weeks. Each single bag collected could raise around £25 for the charity.

The campaign is a nationwide fundraising drive that sees Slimming...

Thousands prepare for Ten Tors challenge

Authored by News Desk
Posted: Thu, 05/08/2014 - 12:00pm

Thousands of young people will set off on the 2014 Ten Tors challenge this weekend, spending two days in small self-sufficient teams walking through some of the most stunning scenery Dartmoor has to offer.

Dartmoor National Park Authority has been working closely with the Army in terms of route changes and providing training to team managers to ensure that the event has minimum impact on the fabric of the moor and its wildlife.

Last year the National Park Authority introduced the £ for the Park initiative whereby those taking part in organised events on the moor are invited...

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