A man running from John O’Groats to Lands End with a fridge on his back will reach Exeter this Friday.
Tony “The Fridge” Phoenix-Morrison, will stop on the approach to Exeter at the end of his 34th consecutive day of running with a 42.5kg Smeg fridge on his back.
The endurance attempt is for the Sir Bobby Robson foundation – a cancer research charity in memory of the former England football manager.
Tony, a 49-year-old grandfather, has remained very fit having completed the Great North Run over 30 times. This success however proved to be a bit of a burden when...
Last Sunday, the Exeter Spitfires played their final away game in their inaugural season and took the opportunity to claim their first win away from Chadwick Field.
The Spitfires visited the Torbay Barons and, after dominating the early part of the game before allowing the Barons back into it, claimed an impressive 30-17 win. The win for the Spitfires was their fourth of the season and guaranteed a third place finish in the four-team South West Baseball League.
The team have shown great improvement as the season has progressed and the four wins, along with avoiding...
Exeter Cathedral’s own Cathedral Players are busy rehearsing their production of 'Ring Round the Moon' by Jean Anouilh.
The show is an adaptation by Christopher Fry subtitled ‘A Charade with Music’ and described as a little puff-ball of a story, a bubble from a glass of champagne twinkling in the fairy lights of a Winter Garden. The performances take place within this year’s Unexpected Festival.
The Cathedral Players were formed in 2008 and have subsequently put on plays within the Cathedral itself, including T.S.Eliot’s Murder in the Cathedral in 2012.
Hercule Poirot, Agatha Christie's much-loved fictional Belgian detective with the little moustache, pince-nez glasses and unmatchable"little grey cells", is to return in a new novel fully authorised by Devon-born Christie's family.
It has been announced that the new novel will be published worldwide in September 2014 and will be written by the British crime writer and poet Sophie Hannah.
Agatha Christie frist introduced her brilliant detective to the world in her first book, The Mysterious Affair at Styles , published in 1920. Written with the full backing of the family,...
The Met Office has issued a yellow warning of rain for the region, including Plymouth, on Saturday (7 September), with the risk of possible localised flooding.
The warning highlights "periods of heavy and persistent rain
"The public should be aware that there is a risk of localised disruption due to flooding.
"Some flooding from rivers or surface water is possible. There is still significant uncertainty as to where and when the heaviest rainfall and greatest impacts will occur and this alert will be updated on Friday."
The Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee has voted to maintain bank interest rates at 0.5% at its meeting on 4 September.
The decision is in line with the monetary policy forward guidance announced last month by Governor, Mark Carney, alongside the publication of the August 2013 Inflation Report.
It has also agreed to keep the scale of its quantitative easing programme at £375 billion.
The Tellus South West survey has now started in Devon. It involves a small aircraft flying at low altitude over the landscape, gathering geophysical data from the air. The survey is progressing steadily eastwards across the region, and may make one or two overflights over your property, but once these are completed the aircraft will not return. The survey will collect data along parallel lines spaced every 200m, in a N-S direction. The survey will progress eastwards across Devon, flying over much of the county including the Plymouth, Bideford, Barnstaple, Okehampton and Totnes areas,...
Some of Exeter's most fascinating buildings will open their doors to the public free of charge for Heritage Open Days later this month.
Heritage Open Days runs from Thursday 12 to Sunday 15 September. Many of the venues participating are not usually open to the public or otherwise charge an entry fee. It is a unique opportunity to explore these sometimes hidden, often curious, and always interesting places. This year 33 properties or events will be taking place throughout the City.
A selection of the properties opening their doors to the public free of charge include Exeter...
Discussions are set to begin with the Duchy of Cornwall to end the lease on HMP Dartmoor, a male category C prison in West Devon, according to a statement from the Ministry of Justice.
While the Justice department says final decisions on the site are a long way off as the lease has a ten-year notice period, but but the age and limitations of the prison mean that it does not have a long-term future in a modern, cost-effective prison system and future options for the site will be discussed.
The Victorian prison, a famous, or perhaps infamous, site on the Dartmoor landscape...
The deadline to book places for East Devon District Council's free annnual event for voluntary organisations and community groups, Working Together, is 20 September.
The conference is being held on Friday 11 October and runs from 9.30am to 2.30pm at EDDC’s Knowle offices in Sidmouth. Representatives of voluntary organisations, community groups and Town and Parish Councils are welcome to come along. The gathering aims to bring local agencies together to improve communications between the voluntary and statutory sectors.
During the day, attendees will find out more about...
