A partnership between Exeter’s Royal Albert Memorial Museum & Art Gallery (RAMM) and the University of Exeter has produced the first ever dedicated display of sexually related material from the Wellcome Collection and a new way for schools to tackle difficult topics in sex education.
Intimate Worlds: Exploring Sexuality through the Wellcome Collection opened in Exeter on Saturday 5 April. The displays include an 18th-century chastity belt, Roman phallic amulets worn by soldiers and children, an Ashanti fertility doll and a Ch’ing dynasty ivory copulating couple from late 19th-...
Forecasters have warned that thunderstorms are likely to break out across the South West this afternoon potentially making driving conditions difficult.
The Met office have issued a yellow weather warning due to the risk of localised flooding, in particular surface water flooding, on affected roads.
Scattered heavy showers and thunderstorms are likely to break out across southern parts of England from around 12:45pm and remain until around 8pm this evening. A chief forecaster at the Met Office said: “A deeply unstable airmass covers much of southern England. As daytime...
Work has begun on new, poolside changing facilities at the Cornwall House Outdoor Pool on the University of Exeter’s Streatham Campus. Changes will include the construction of six new pool-side changing rooms, two toilets, three “beach style” open showers and lockers alongside improvements to the entrance. Until now, swimmers have changed in the adjacent Cornwall House, walking along a short path to gain access to the pool. Assistant Director of Sport Neil Sheppard is overseeing the project and explained how the new facilities would greatly improve the customer experience of swimmers. He...
English former football player and manager, Kevin Keegan OBE took time out from a ‘Southern Sporting Club’ lunch presentation held at Sandy Park to sign an official Exeter City football shirt. The footballing legend aged 63 was the keynote speaker at the sporting lunch hosted by David Duckham MBE, the former Coventry and England rugby player.
The Yorkshire-born striker played for several clubs including Liverpool and Hamburger SV as well as being an England favourite. A football superstar of the Seventies, Keegan was as famous for his 'bubble' perm as much as his skills on the...
A team of Exeter Junior School pupils has beaten off strong competition from pupils much older than themselves in a mind boggling competition. Team Omega, made up of Tom Harris-Deans, Bertie Hawkins and James Waddington, took part in the Alan Turing Cryptography Competition aimed at secondary school children up to year 11. Now in its third year, the Alan Turing Cryptography Competition is organised by the School of Mathematics at the University of Manchester and celebrates the life of acclaimed mathematician Alan Turing, perhaps best known for his work breaking German codes during World...
The Chamber’s Exeter initiative for Science and Technology (ExIST) will be welcoming speakers from the South West Academic Health Science Network (SWAHSN), Plymouth Hospitals NHS Trust and the Professor of Biomedical Imaging and Biosensing at the University at its May event on Thursday 8th May at the University of Exeter Business School.
The quarterly event, which has a healthcare theme, will outline the challenges faced by our region, the opportunities for business, and an insight into future healthcare technology. As usual there will be three business presentations and networking...
The team of staff and volunteers at Castle Drogo are pleased to re-open to the public the memorial room dedicated to Adrian Drewe, Julius and Francis Drewe’s eldest son and heir who was killed during the First World War.
The contents of the room were put in storage in December 2012 as part of the ongoing building project to make Castle Drogo watertight. The window was taken out to be refurbished and it is the first of 913 windows to be put back in situ.
House and Collections Manager, Lucinda Heron, said:
"As the room is a designated war memorial, it has been re-...
Team members at the Wilko store in the Guildhall Shopping Centre, Exeter, are offering a helping hand to community groups and charities in the area who need extra support in 2014.
Whether the project benefits young people, families or the elderly, Wilko is appealing to anyone who is passionate about their local community to get involved and apply for a donation from the store’s Helping Hands budget.
People living within Exeter and the surrounding area can apply to the store for a monetary donation or Wilko products to help them with worthwhile projects.
Exeter City Council has begun repair work to the wall at Bowling Green Marsh, Topsham, using money from the government's funds.
The repairs come after a large section of the coastal defence alongside the River Clyst frontage was severely damaged during the high tides and storm damage in January and February.
This resulted in a breach which allowed the high tides to overtop and flow into the protected land and inkland road behind it. These raised defences provide protection to the RSPB reserve at Bowling Green Marsh and a number of nearby properties and businesses.
