Princesshay Shopping Centre welcomed thousands of new and returning students to its annual ‘Student Lock In’ event on Wednesday 2 October. Over 3,600 students descended on the Student Lock In between 6.30pm – 9pm, with 30 retailers and restaurants offering discounts of up to 25% to students.
Nichola Mann, schuh store manager said: “The Student Lock In is a fantastic event; it’s one of the highlights of our retail year at schuh. The discounts offered throughout the event ensure footfall remains high and raises the awareness of the store while also encouraging students to come back...
Now everyone can have a Great Gorilla in their front room.
Four of Paignton Zoo’s popular Great Gorillas have been reproduced as limited edition hand-painted miniatures.
The Great Gorillas Project is celebrating the 90th birthday of the Zoo, which is a registered charity. The collectables are faithful ceramic reproductions of their life-size counterparts. You can choose from Herbert, Five Minutes to Midnight, Cool Ice Cream Bananas and Hippocampus Guttulatus.
Paignton Zoo spokesperson Phil Knowling said: “The pieces are approximately 16 centimetres long, 14...
For the last three years, Exeter Performance Centre, based at the University of Exeter’s Sports Park, has become renowned for nurturing emerging badminton talent from across the South West.
This September, the Centre has welcomed a new Head Coach, Kelvin Edwards, to its ranks to help further expand and develop its performance programme.
A fully qualified UKCC Level 2 Badminton Coach Tutor Assessor, PE Teacher and Speed, Agility and Quickness instructor, Kelvin brings an impressive CV and a versatile skill-set to the role where he will work closely with the centre’s 46...
A front page story by The Sun newspaper today has been widely criticised for stigmatising mental health.
The Sun headline reading ‘1,200 killed by mental patients: Shock 10 year toll exposes care crisis’ has been the subject of a storm of criticisms from charities and MPs.
In a joint statement from Time to Change, Mind and Rethink Mental Illness they wrote: “It's incredibly disappointing to see a leading newspaper splash with such a sensational and damaging headline.
“The figures used are disputable: in the article itself, it's acknowledged that the numbers of...
Children aged between 8 and 14 years old, cook up a selection of scrumptious spooky treats and mouth-watering scary dishes with our Fun Kitchen children's cookery classes this halloween half term.
They will be creating some tasty bakes for their breaks, baking their own lunch, plus a family dish to take home at the end of the day!
To fit around parents' busy working lives, children can be dropped off earlier, from 8.30am, and picked up later, until 5.30pm. Parents can relax for a day in the knowledge that their child is taking part in the best wide range of fun...
Free dyslexia screening will be available to adults next week at Exeter City Council's Customer Service Centre.
The screening sessions are being provided by Exeter-based company, Cinnabar, which specialises in helping adults with dyslexia throughout the South West.
Sessions will be held on 15 and 16 October during Dyslexia Awareness Week (14-20 October) at the Council's Customer Service Centre in Paris Street, Exeter. The sessions are free but by appointment only, so anyone interested needs to book a place by calling 01392 357501.
Devon and Cornwall Police have taken to Twitter to thank both sets of supporters from Saturday’s local derby clash between Exeter City and Plymouth Argyle at St James Park for their part in a day that they have described as ‘largely peaceful’.
The Police were on high-alert throughout the build up to Saturday’s game deploying six police support units, four horses, a dog support unit and air support.
Devon and Cornwall Police have praised both sets of supporters for their compliance with police instructions and for their behaviour on the day despite visitors Argyle going down...
A special exhibition will take place at Exeter Guildhall between Monday 11 November and Saturday 16 Novemer 2013.
The event will honour the members of 307 (Polish) Squadron RAF who protected the skies over Exeter during the Second World War and were described as Exeter's Guardian Angels.
Local historian, Michael Parrott, who is also a "Friend" of Higher Cemetery, was researching the history of the cemetery's two chapels when he was shown a wooden memorial to a 307 Pilot tucked away on the wall of an unused corner of one of the chapels.
On Wednesday 2 September, five Exeter College media students took part in a training exercise designed to test Plymouth City Council and the MOD’s contingency planning.
The exercise, codenamed Short Sermon, tested the reactions of these organisations and local authorities in the event of nuclear reactor accident.
During the day around 27 separate groups, including students from the College, took part in playing and responding at operational, tactical and strategic levels across Exeter, Plymouth and Truro.
The students worked alongside trained professionals as they...
Police are appealing for witnesses after a motorcyclist died following a collision near Okehampton at the weekend.
The fatal collision happened shortly after 4.20pm on Sunday 6 October on the A386 outside Lower Lodge, Merton, near Okehampton.
Police report that a 44-year-old local man, riding a Suzuki GSXR, was travelling in the direction of Torrington from Meeth with a group of other motorcyclists.
The rider is believed to have lost control of his motorcycle on a bend and impacted with a low bank. No other vehicles were involved.
