Eventing’s stars of the future will be out in force at Bicton Arena’s affiliated horse trials this weekend with Emily King, recently named as a squad member for the Junior Europeans in France next month, among the entries.
Emily, from Sidmouth in East Devon, recently finished third in the advanced section at the Festival of British Eventing on Brookleigh, a horse she has entered in the open intermediate class at Bicton.
Janou Bleekman, who competed at the Pony European Championships in 2011 and 2012, is another Devon-based rider with a huge future who is competing at the...
Prostate Cancer UK – the Official Charity Partner of The Football League - has launched a national campaign to find the greatest captain in the history of The Football League and is calling on football fans to vote for their favourite skipper. The newly extended three-year charity partnership between Prostate Cancer UK and the league aims to reach over 16 million fans across the terraces, raising awareness of the disease which affects 1 in 8 men sometime in their life and kills over 10,000 men a year. This season, the 125th anniversary of The Football League, fans are being urged put aside...
Experience the exquisite world of Dolls House Miniatures at our public fair where you will find exhibitions, displays and demonstrations by some of the leading crafts people in this field.
A range of stands will be exhibiting everything from charming miniature figures and delightful dolls houses to every imaginable accessory and item of furniture.
Whether a keen miniaturist collector or enthusiast, or someone just wanting to visit for casual interest, you can be assured of a warm welcome.
Yorkshire Building Society in Exeter announced the voting in their Charity Choices ballot today - and ELF won the top prize of £500.
Thank you so much to the staff who nominated us and all of the customers who voted for us, and to the Yorkshire Building Society Charitable Trust for funding the awards.
Also winners were Hospicare (£300) and Balloons (£200).
Staff at the branch have been wonderfully supportive of ELF recently and all three charities were delighted with their awards.
It's been a busy few months for Devon Air Ambulance Trust, and there's no let up in sight, but they wouldn't have it any other way!
The Devon Air Ambulance on Tour event, taking the new Air Ambulance around the county finished in Paignton on Tuesday 13 August. The Charity is now looking forward to celebrating its 21st birthday in style with a Birthday Weekender on 7 and 8 September at Darts Farm.
Events kick off with BBC Radio Devon's John Govier broadcasing his Saturday morning show live from Darts Farm from 10am to 1pm, with tickets just £4 per person (limited to 350). At...
We spend such a lot of time on Twitter and are kept constantly amused / saddened / inspired / shocked / informed! Here are the top ten tweets that caught our eye this week...
1. Ben Bradshaw @BenPBradshaw
Lovely photo of #Exeter canal this evening taken by constituent. I am the small dot in the water.
2. The Knitting Tent @stormina_teacup
@TheExeterDaily Where's Woolly? #29 An art project celebrating #wool #knitting #crochet ~ 52 #yarnbombs in a year! pic.twitter.com/lUDr93tdTv
To celebrate our 21st birthday we will be holding our 21st Birthday Weekender at Darts Farm on Saturday 7 and Sunday 8 September.
During the day there will be a free entry fun day for all of the family including visits from our helicopters (subject to operational duties), an emergency services demonstration, featuring our crew, Devon & Somerset Fire Service and South Western Ambulance Service. There are also events where you can buy tickets to attend over the weekend: Saturday:
10am to 1pm - Be in the audience for BBC Radio Devon's JG's Saturday morning show. Tickets: £...
Exeter School pupils, parents and staff are celebrating another set of very good A Level results with an overall pass rate of 100% for the tenth year in a row. 18% of all grades were A* and 56% of grades were either A* or A. 84% of all grades were A* - B. There were many high achievers with over one third of pupils achieving three or more A* or A grades. Among those successful are: Joe Allen (Engineering at Magdalene College, Cambridge University), Natasha ffrench-Constant (Medicine at Bristol University), Helena Marshall (English at York University), Alex Porter (Geography at Leeds...
Air ambulances and fire crews were called to the two vehicle traffic collision at 9:13 this morning.
The incident took place on the A375 Putts Corner, Sidbury.
One person was still trapped inside a vehicle and one person from the second vehicle still inside the vehicle but not trapped and was being attended to by Ambulance personnel.
Fire crews removed the roof of the vehicle with hydraulic rescue equipment to extricate the casualty.
Both are now in Hospital - The female driver of a Citroen was airlifted to The Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital with non-life...
