Exeter has been named amongst one of the UK’s rent hotspots where private rents may be off-limits to many households.
A report by the Resolution Foundation has found that Exeter is among places where the cost of rent exceeds the income of many households even on a modest property.
Across the UK, 125 of the 376 local authorities studied were shown to have a rent which was unaffordable on a £22,000 net income. For family with an income of £19,000, nearly half of the studied areas were unaffordable.
The report claims that the root of the problem is a UK-wide housing...
Last Saturday (13 July) saw over 600 competitors converge on Exeter Quay for the annual City of Exeter rowing regatta. With over 150 events, the regatta ran from 10:30am to 6:30pm and was the biggest event for ten years. The day saw large crowds enjoying the Mediterranean weather and cheering on the competitors.
Paul Wilson Exeter Regatta Chairman said: "This year there were even more junior rowers and scullers, competing in some hotly contested races. Ensuring great competition for rowers as young as 12 means there continues to be a huge pool of talent reaching towards the...
Everyone wants to get in on the graduation festivities at Exeter– even the animals! The University of Exeter’s resident gorilla, currently based in the Forum, is the result of a competition in which students were set the task of designing their very own Great Gorilla.
More than 70 fun and innovative entries were put forward and the winning design was Meriel Royal’s globetrotting Gorilla. Meriel, a third year English undergraduate, was inspired by the idea of the Gorilla making stops around the world and collecting stamps of other endangered animals, before finally arriving in Devon...
The final episode of The Apprentice aired tonight on BBC1 at 8.00pm and saw Lord Sugar taking on Dr Leah Totton as a business partner with a personal investment of £250,000. Luisa Zissman with a proposed wholesale bakery business narrowly lost out to Leah's business plan for a chain of Medical Cosmetic clinics to be Lord Sugar’s Apprentice for 2013. The nation was on the edge of their seats to find out whether Lord Sugar would take the safe option of baking or the cosmetic route, which for him, has a moral dilemma.
Yet Leah’s new business venture proposal is not a new concept, as...
Come and discover your local history. Hosted by the Poltimore Estate history and Archaeology Group with participation from many local groups and societies as well as talks on local topics.
Refreshments available, dogs on leads welcome.
noon-4pm
The house will also be open to explore. Standard Admission Fees apply, free entry for Friends of Poltimore House.
Jack wants to marry Gwendolen, but there are two obstacles: her mother who is a ‘Gorgon’... and Gwendolen’s ideal ‘to love someone of the name of Ernest’ ... Meanwhile, with the discovery that Jack has ‘an excessively pretty ward, who is only just eighteen’, his friend Algy sees the perfect opportunity for some Bunburying at Jack’s place in the country!
These are the ingredients for Oscar Wilde’s most witty confection: lost babies, lost luggage, lost relations – all enhanced by equally witty music by Monica Shallis.
The performance will be in the grounds of Poltimore House...
Jack wants to marry Gwendolen, but there are two obstacles: her mother who is a ‘Gorgon’... and Gwendolen’s ideal ‘to love someone of the name of Ernest’ ... Meanwhile, with the discovery that Jack has ‘an excessively pretty ward, who is only just eighteen’, his friend Algy sees the perfect opportunity for some Bunburying at Jack’s place in the country!
These are the ingredients for Oscar Wilde’s most witty confection: lost babies, lost luggage, lost relations – all enhanced by equally witty music by Monica Shallis.
The performance will be in the grounds of Poltimore House...
Dr Sally Flint and Dr Ginny Baily, the editors of Riptide short story journal and Canto poetry journal, based at the University of Exeter, will run and facilitate this creative writing workshop.
Artwork on display from RAMM’s permanent collection will be used as inspiration to develop and discuss a piece of writing.
Participants need to bring along pens, paper, a willingness to write and their imaginations.
10am-4pm.
Tickets cost £35 and are available from Riptide: www.riptidejournal.co.uk or email: editors@riptidejournal.co.uk
The scenery of Dartmoor and South Devon as depicted by father and son landscape painters William and FJ Widgery.
Both painters lived and worked in Devon throughout their careers. William Widgery (1826-1893) was entirely self-taught and developed an atmospheric style well suited to large-scale work.
By contrast, his son, FJ (1861-1942), received formal art training at home and abroad. His more precise draughtsmanship was ideal for small-scale work and illustration. Though high-spirited and sociable, William seems to have been totally dedicated to painting. FJ, though a very...
