This half-term try learning a new skill and provide a home for birds to nest in your garden.
Join the countryside team on Wednesday, 19 February at the Axe Estuary Wetlands classroom between 10am and 1pm, and build a nest box from one of our easy-to-use kits – available for a range of common garden birds from blue tits to sparrows and starlings.
The Axe Estuary Wetlands officer and the countryside rangers will help you build your nest box and advise you on where to place it for the best results. You will be helping the conservation effort by encouraging biodiversity in your...
Plans to construct a new short game practice golf area at the Sports Park on Streatham campus, have been unveiled by University of Exeter Sport.
Making use of the vacant space behind the University’s covered tennis courts; the 50m x 30m area will house two contoured, all-weather artificial greens and an eco-bunker. A 200m2 Pro-tour standard practice green will allow players to practice a full range of short game shots whilst a smaller 80m2 putting green gives golfers the ability to focus on short and medium range putts. The project, was ratified by the University last year...
For three nights only, The Met Office plays host to Bring The Happy Live, a theatre event mapping and celebrating happiness in Exeter.
An intimate and interactive evening somewhere between a wedding and a wake, Bring The Happy Live is a spectacular culmination of a project mapping moments and memories of happiness in Exeter and across the country.
The project will begin with artists, Invisible Flock, occupying a disused shop in Exeter High Street. Armed with giant maps of Exeter and stacks of tea, they will invite passers-by to come in and share a memory – a first kiss, a...
Construction is underway on the former site of the St Loye’s Foundation in Exeter, following a multi million pound investment from Renaissance Villages Ltd, a specialist developer of age exclusive villages, and Helical Bar plc, which is set to create up to 160 local jobs.
Millbrook Village will comprise a selection of luxury cottages and apartments for the over 55s, as well as a residents’ clubhouse featuring a restaurant, bar and swimming pool. The total investment, including the land purchase, professional fees, build costs and the marketing of Millbrook Village, is set to reach...
The UK must make “difficult choices” between protecting towns or countryside from future flooding according to Environment Agency boss, Lord Smith.
Lord Smith argued that there was no “bottomless purse” for flood defences and that current guidance which gives priority to lives and homes “involves tricky issues of policy and priority: town or country, front rooms or farmland?”
Writing to the Daily Telegraph newspaper Lord Smith offered his condolences to badly affected areas such as the Somerset levels but cautioned: “there are no quick fixes in the face of this kind of...
It’s a day that will live with him forever, but even though Jack Nowell’s England debut ended in a narrow 26-24 defeat to France in Paris, the Exeter Chiefs starlet was still buzzing come the final whistle at the Stade de France.
A late converted try from replacement Gael Fickou denied England what would have been their biggest ever comeback win in a sensational start to the 2014 Six Nations.
Having conceded a try in the first minute and been 16-3 behind with barely a quarter of the contest gone, England had fought back superbly to lead 24-19 with just four minutes left....
We are a newly formed company Stage-Wright Productions premiering our first play Motherland at Tiverton Community Art Theatre on Saturday 22nd February and thereafter in a selection of village halls around the region of Exeter.
Motherland focuses on the life and practices of Marie Stopes, the birth control pioneer. Set towards the end of the second world war this witty and provocative black comedy portrays a fascinating study into one of the most outspoken women of the time.
The play explores the issues of women in the first half of the 20th century for whom contraception...
It doesn't rain but it pours... and pours, and pours.
The Met Office has issued a Yellow weather warning of rain today (Monday February 3).
Outbreaks of heavy rain will be accompanied by strengthening south or southeast winds which may also combine with high tides to increase the risk of coastal flooding in exposed locations.
The public should be aware of the risk of further disruption, particularly to travel.
The public is advised to take extra care, further information and advice can be found here: http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/uk/links.html
Appliances from Devon and Somerset Fire and Rescue Service were called to an incident at the A377 between Sainsburys and A30 Roundabout, St Thomas, Exeter.
The incident involved the collision of a motorcycle and a car and took place at 5.52 on Sunday 2nd February.
One fire appliance from Danes Castle Exeter attended. Fire crews confirmed a road traffic collision involving one car and one motorcycle.
All persons were free and clear of the vehicles upon the arrival of the Fire Service. Fire crews made the vehicles safe using small tools and left the incident in the...
A man in his seventies suffered only ' minor injuries' after his car plowed 60ft over a cliff like underground.
The incident occured at around 2.30pm near The Mount Pleasant Inn in Dawlish Warren today ( Sunday 2nd February).
Emergency services from the Fire Service, the police and the coastal service were called.
Craig Timms, Manager of the pub, said:
" A man aged about 71 plowed through our car park fence in his BMW. It is about a 60ft drop. It didn't affect us at all, but a fence is replaceable! We wish the man the best and hope he has a speedy recovery...
