New local company AventHolidays, the brainchild of Woodbury-based Jeremy Jackson, announces the first of its new all-inclusive six day Italian painting breaks in the UNESCO World Heritage City of Ferrara, Italy, an outstanding success. Ferrara - with a population of 350,000 - boasts the oldest university in Italy together with a castle and is linked to Exeter University. The inaugural painting holiday was led by Rebecca de Mendonça a renowned artist who has developed considerable skill in the use of pastels. She spent 10 years working alongside Channel 4 Grand Designs presenter Kevin...
Wild Art Activities for children of all ages including paper making wild potions, camp fire cooking, clay work, charcoal making and drawing, felting, natural dyeing and more.
Experience creative activities on a beautiful farm woodland setting surrounded by animals and nature.
10.30am-2.30pm
£15 per child per session. (children must be accompanied by an adult).
Booking essential - info@organicarts.org.uk or call 01392 811080
Wild Art Activities for children of all ages including paper making wild potions, camp fire cooking, clay work, charcoal making and drawing, felting, natural dyeing and more.
Experience creative activities on a beautiful farm woodland setting surrounded by animals and nature.
10.30am-2.30pm
£15 per child per session. (children must be accompanied by an adult).
Booking essential - info@organicarts.org.uk or call 01392 811080
Wild Art Activities for children of all ages including paper making wild potions, camp fire cooking, clay work, charcoal making and drawing, felting, natural dyeing and more.
Experience creative activities on a beautiful farm woodland setting surrounded by animals and nature.
10.30am-2.30pm
£15 per child per session. (children must be accompanied by an adult).
Booking essential - info@organicarts.org.uk or call 01392 811080
Devon residents, among which there is reported to be a higher than average number of people living with asthma, will be thrilled to hear that NICE issued positive guidance supporting the use of a medication called Xolair® (omalizumab) for patients with severe, persistent allergic asthma.
Following this announcement all eligible patients including, for the first time, children aged six years and above, should now have no barriers to receiving omalizumab, a life-changing medicine for the treatment of severe allergic asthma.
Painful varicose vein treatments such as vein stripping may become a thing of the past, following the news that NICE (National Institute for Health and Care Excellence) have announced that doctors should use heat ablation as their first choice of treatment.
Varicose Veins is a condition that affects 3 out of 10 adults in The UK.
The NHS say varicose veins are caused by weak vein walls and valves.
Although some people find the condition does not cause them any problem others find they can suffer from complications, such as bleeding and swelling.
The Animal Health and Veterinary Laboratories Agency (AHVLA) have worked alongside farmers in a unique experiment in which badgers were monitored by surveillance cameras.
Following the Badger cull debate, the AHVLA have installed surveillance cameras on 75 farms in the South West. Their footage offers an alternative to those who are all for culling of badgers to go ahead.
Badgers can carry the Bovine TB disease, and can also pass it on to cattle, making them unfavourable amongst the farming industry. However, the surveillance footage recovered by the AHVLA shows that some...
Police are appealing for witnesses after an assault took place in Polsoe Road, Exeter. The victim was sat in his car, when he was approached by a man, who attacked him. The 26-year-old man, who is local to Exeter, received cuts to his neck and wrist. The incident took place outside Henry’s Bar at around 2.40pm on Monday 15 July. Police are appealing for anyone who may have seen the incident or who has any information to please call police on 101 quoting DE/13/6515.
The summer holidays are upon us and many parents have yet to find their children a suitable holiday club to attend while they are working.
With such a vast range of clubs all over Exeter and the surrounding area it’s no wonder parents and children alike find it a hard job choosing the perfect one; that’s why we’ve made it simpler for you. Below there are some of our favourite holiday clubs, each located in Exeter with a synopsis and in categories so that you don’t have to wade through websites until your eyes hurt because this is the only website you’ll need. However, many may be...
Today a handful of students kindly gave up a day of their summer holidays by taking part in the 700th anniversary walk, which covers routes once walked by original Exeter College Students.
Students from the college’s Reach Academy for gifted and talented students join the University of Oxford’s Exeter College Rector, Frances Cairncross on the celebratory walk.
Exeter College, Oxford, was founded in 1314 by Walter de Stapeldon, Bishop of Exeter, and its early students came mainly from Devon and Cornwall. As Bishop of Exeter, Walter de Stapeldon contributed liberally to...
