Devon County Antiques Fair

Event Date: 
11/01/2014 - 9:00am
Venue: 
The Matford Centre, Matford Park Rd, Marsh Barton, Exeter

They are the largest Saturday fairs in the Country, and are regularly attended by both trade and thousands of visitors and are a wonderful opportunity to buy or sell.

The stand holders offer a huge selection of quality antiques of all sorts, silver, jewellery, furniture of all periods, retro items, vintage clothing, collectables of every sort, home furnishings, books, postcards, pictures, prints, coins, medals, toys. There is always something special to find at affordable prices.

There hall has easy access for standholders and visitors with parking all around the hall. It...

Chiefs confirm Tui to depart

Exeter Chiefs head coach Rob Baxter has today confirmed that tight-head prop Hoani Tui is to leave the Aviva Premiership club at the end of the season.

The 29-year-old will join Lyon, the current leaders of Pro D2, on a two-year deal this summer after five seasons playing for the Chiefs in both the Championship and the Premiership.

Signed from Italian outfit Calvisano in 2010, the popular Kiwi forward has to date played 109 times for the Chiefs in all competitions, scoring six tries in the process.

A cornerstone of the Exeter pack since his arrival in Devon, Tui not...

Luke Friend phones lucky fans

Authored by Huw Oxburgh
Posted: Wed, 01/08/2014 - 4:34pm

Five Friendies have now won the chance to meet X factor legend, Luke Friend, face to face this Friday.

The competition winners received the news from Luke himself in a phonecall from his Teignmouth home this afternoon.

Luke, his mum Sue and his dog Gizmo met with Oli Justice from The Exeter Daily to congratulate the winners.

Winners were thrilled and several were left speechless with excitement.

A video of the Luke phoning the winners will be available shortly.

Hundreds of fans entered the competition to meet Luke before five lucky winners were...

South West Communication Group announces ambitious growth plans

South West Communications Group has announced ambitions plan to significantly grow its business by the end of 2014.

Now in its 30th year as a telephone systems provider, South West Communications Group is aiming not only to expand its market share in telephony but also to increase the use of its purpose-built data centre hosting facility in Exeter and to expand the connectivity side of the business.

To support its growth plans, South West Communications Group is launching a recruitment drive to search for the best talent in the area to fulfill new roles in office-based and...

'Devon remembers' gets lottery fund support

Authored by News Desk
Posted: Wed, 01/08/2014 - 3:58pm

Devon County Council’s Heritage Service has received support from the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) for the heritage strand of the Council’s Devon Remembers project, it was announced today.

The Devon Remembers project will commemorate the Centenary of the First World War over the next four years, focusing on the county’s rich legacy of public war memorials.

The HLF element of this project will encourage, co-ordinate and support up to 50 community projects carrying out intergenerational and interpretative projects focusing on the stories behind the individuals recorded on...

Jobless youngsters offered free training courses

Jobless young people in Exeter and East Devon are being offered free training that could lead to a guaranteed work experience position.

PGL Training of Exeter is preparing to run two-week employment skills courses to anyone aged between 16 and 23 who is currently not in work, education or training. And if they complete the course satisfactorily they will be offered a guaranteed work experience placement in the local area. The courses are due to start on Monday, February 3.

PGL Training director Andy White said: “Nationwide, there are more than one million youngsters who are...

Francis Clark: Finance in the South West seminar

Event Date: 
26/02/2014 - 8:00am
Venue: 
Exeter Racecourse

Award-winning chartered accountants Francis Clark has announced that TV personality and former Secretary of State Michael Portillo will be the keynote speaker at the firm’s second Finance in the South West seminar to be held in February 2014.

The eagerly anticipated seminar brings together the people representing funding and support streams potentially available to SMEs and includes presentations and participation from major providers of business funding and support, case studies, networking opportunities for owner/managers to ask “one-to-one” questions and coverage of grants, debt...

Great Western Ceilidh with Lasair

Event Date: 
11/01/2014 - 8:00pm
Venue: 
Bowhill Primary School, Buddle Lane, Exeter

An exciting new band, Lasair were a great hit at last year's Sidmouth Festival and provide a fresh ceilidh experience from the South West, playing English and Irish tunes with a robust back line.

Tickets £9, concessions available.

More details: https://www.facebook.com/events/546730622079835/?ref_dashboard_filter=upcoming

X Factor star to perform at Chiefs

Authored by Mark Stevens
Posted: Wed, 01/08/2014 - 12:10pm

Exeter Chiefs are excited to announce that X Factor 2013 star Shelley Smith will be performing at this weekend's Heineken Cup encounter with Glasgow Warriors at Sandy Park (3pm).

Exeter-born Shelley, who made it through as one of the 12 contestants to Live Shows working alongside mentor Sharon Osbourne, will be performing live on the pitch at half-time during our latest European fixture.

Bubbly Shelley, a white-van driver from Exeter, entered The X Factor in the hope she could one day make a difference to her and her daughter Madeline’s lives.

Having delivered car...

Whitehead backs Chiefs to come good

Authored by Mark Stevens
Posted: Wed, 01/08/2014 - 12:00pm

Exeter Chiefs hooker Chris Whitehead knows the modern-day game has no hiding place, but he insists he and his team-mates will learn lessons from their recent run of defeats.

In what has been a testing block of fixtures for Rob Baxter's side, Sunday's narrow loss at London Wasps in the Aviva Premiership means the Chiefs have now lost seven or their past eight games in all competitions.

That sequence of results has not only see the Chiefs slip to eighth place in the current Premiership standings, but has also dented their hopes of qualification in both the Heineken and LV=...

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