Welcome Back to Local Banking in Barnstaple, Exeter, Exmouth, Ford, Okehampton, Plymouth, Torquay and Tavistock.
The new TSB Bank which has launched today – with more than 4.6 million customers and over £20 billion of loans and customer deposits – is one of the biggest changes ever seen in UK banking as ‘local banking’ is brought back to Britain. There are ten branches in Devon which will all be welcoming TSB back to the high street.
Never before has a new bank launched with a nationwide network of 631 branches, four call centres, an award-winning internet bank, mobile...
The 10ft cube of Islamic graffiti art, standing in front of Exeter Cathedral forms part of a University of Exeter research project which investigates how Muslim belief has developed through theology, spirituality, law and the creative arts. On Saturday 7 September between 7 – 8.30pm there was a special event in the Cathedral focusing on the role of Christianity and Islam in public spaces. A range of speakers discussed the role and positive contribution that religion brings to the society in which we live. The topics varied from how religious art can assist as a useful form of communication...
Devon and Cornwall Police is leading the way with new technology, which will allow police officers to give evidence without attending court.
The Force is introducing Live Links, which enables officers to provide testimony over a secure video link to any court in the country without leaving the station.
The new technology, which will save valuable police hours and money, is being installed in custody departments at Torquay, Barnstaple and Camborne.
The initiative launches on Tuesday 17 September at Torquay Magistrates’ Court, when a PC will give evidence on a driving...
A new winter show is to grace Westpoint, Exeter next year. Jamie Wilson, Paul Elliott and Duncan Weldon for Triumph Entertainment have announced that the brand new show 'Robin Cousins' ICE - The Skating Stage Experience’ will be coming to Westpoint, Exeter from Wednesday 19th February 2014 for five nights during February half term.
Olympic champion and head judge on ITV’s Dancing on Ice , Robin Cousins has hand-picked the greatest ice skaters from around the globe to bring his incredible new production to life.
Dynamic and atmospheric, 'Robin Cousins' ICE will draw you...
New skipper Dean Mumm bemoaned a poor first half showing as Exeter Chiefs kicked off the new Aviva Premiership season with a disappointing 38-11 defeat at Northampton Saints.
In a one-sided first 40 minutes at Franklin's Gardens, the impressive Saints ran riot as they claimed a try bonus point inside 36 minutes thanks to touchdowns from Dylan Hartley, Tom Wood, Ken Pisi and George Pisi.
Although the Chiefs improved greatly after the break - claiming a try through Mumm himself - the home side had the final word when replacement Samu Manoa crossed from...
A new choral work by award-winning British composer Gabriel Jackson will be the centrepiece of a concert at Exeter Cathedral on Wednesday 16 October 2013, as City of London Sinfonia continues its nationwide Fauré Requiem tour.
During 2013, the leading UK chamber orchestra is visiting ten of England’s finest Cathedrals for a concert series that takes audiences on a journey of liturgical music through the centuries. Each Cathedral choir will get the chance to perform with City of London Sinfonia, under the baton of the Orchestra’s Principal Conductor Stephen Layton, one of the world’...
Exeter’s wait for a first-ever win at Franklin’s Gardens will continue for another year at least as the Chiefs were swot to one side by an impressive Northampton Saints side.
Jim Mallinder’s hosts ran in five tries – four of them in the first half – through Dylan Hartley, Ken Pisi, Tom Wood, George Pisi and Samu Manoa, whilst fly-half Stephen Myler added a further 13 points with a faultless display with the boot. It was simply too much for the Chiefs who, despite a much-improved second half showing, could only counter...
The University of Exeter Students’ Guild is gearing up to manage the impact of the influx of some 7,000 new arrivals. Aware that the presence of several thousand new students presents a challenge for the city of Exeter as well as the Students’ Guild, a team of 180 volunteers will be recruited to provide a community link.
The Guild’s Welcome Team comprises 180 student volunteers trained to signpost, support and help new students around the city during the hectic ten day ‘freshers’ period, this year beginning on 14th September. The team works in partnership with police, venue...
Exeter City and Dagenham & Redbridge played out a 1-1 draw at Victoria Road, in a tempestuous game in the capital.
The breakthrough came midway into the first half for the Daggers, as Josh Scott profited from a breakdown in communication amongst the City rearguard and put the ball into an empty net.
Dagenham spurned opportunities to put daylight between the teams in the first half, and so Sam Parkin’s superb header in a much-improved second period brought the scores level to send the Grecians back to Devon with a point....
On Thursday 26 September, the film “The Moo Man” nominated and shown at the prestigious 2013 Sundance Film Festival is being shown at the third Chagford Film Festival on Dartmoor.
Farmer Stephen Hook will be there on the night, along with the film’s Director (Andy Heathcote) and producer (Heike Bachelier).
The remarkable story of a maverick farmer and his cows, beautifully filmed over four years on the Pevensey Levels in Sussex.
In an attempt to save his family farm, Stephen Hook decides to turn his back on the cost cutting dairies and supermarkets and instead stay...
