Zoo keepers at Living Coasts are on high alert for hatching eggs!
Staff are keeping their eye on macaroni penguins and other species at Torquay’s coastal zoo.
Senior keeper Lois Rowell said: “We have five pairs of macaroni penguins on eggs. The first mac eggs could hatch during half term week. This is around the normal time of year for them.”
Macaroni penguins breed on their own rocky beach with a shady sunroof and a special cooling system of water pipes and mist sprays.
As they build nests out of pebbles, the chicks are more easily seen than those of the...
Top spa consultant Lisa Nugent is set to visit Exeter later this week to do a series of one-to-one consultations with women in the city.
The Spa at The Magdalen Chapter will host Lisa Nugent, one of REN’s leading spa consultants, on Wednesday 29 May.
Lisa is incredibly well known in the beauty industry and travels across the UK advising people on skin care. A limited number of appointments are still available for women who want to take advantage of having Lisa in Exeter.
Appointments will include a 20-minute consultation where she will give a full evaluation of your...
Notwithstanding the 2012 deluge, the progress of English wines in the last year has been remarkable. You can hardly open a paper or magazine, or a wine website or trade publication, without a eulogy to England appearing.
Take this from Berry Brothers & Rudd in October last year. They went on record in the Independent..."The quality (of English wine)... stands up to the rest of the world and, in the case of some sparkling wines, exceeds their rivals."
The newspaper asked "Is English wine now exceeding the quality of French?" and returned the answer: yes. "Start with...
The Hoarder Next Door , Britain's Biggest Hoarders and other such TV programmes have done much to highlight the growing issue of hoarding in the UK. It is estimated that there are about 3 million sufferers in this country ( www.helpforhoarders.co.uk ). Many stay silent and isolated. In these programmes you will see the only on-screen representation of a professional declutterer.
I have recently established myself as a declutterer and joined the 100 others registered nationally with the Association of Professional Declutterers and Organisers (APDO-UK). Many of us work with hoarders...
The annual trip for the Exeter Exiles - a dedicated group of Exeter City FC supporters who mainly live and work in London - left for the Greek island of Andros on Wednesday evening.
Neil Le Milliere, who was recently crowned NPower Fan of the Year in the Football League Awards, says "We were originally invited over in 2007 to combine a holiday on an idyllic Greek island with a game of football against the locals, and a number of us went over not really knowing what to expect."
There are now about 100 members of the Greek Exeter City FC fan club on the Island of Andros...
New bus services linking to Cranbrook will be launched next week. The Services 4, 4A and 4B will be introduced on Tuesday (28 May) and will replace services 60, 60A, 60B, X60 and 380 on the route between Exeter, Clyst Honiton, Cranbrook, Ottery St. Mary, Honiton and Axminster.
Devon County Council is using developer contributions to fund the services, and its existing funding for Service 380 along this route will also continue towards the additional services.
There will be a half-hourly service between Exeter and Cranbrook, with most buses continuing to Ottery St Mary and...
Athletes no longer ask whether beetroot juice improves sporting performance - they just want to know how much to drink, and when. A new study - aimed at helping sportsmen and women including footballers, rugby, tennis and hockey players, cyclists and marathon runners - has the answers.
The University of Exeter’s Sport and Health Sciences department has published a new paper in the Journal of Applied Physiology looking at the effects of taking three different doses of beetroot juice on different exercise intensities.
The research team, led by Professor Andy Jones, used Beet-...
On 26 May 2013, a new law comes into affect to protect people living in mobile homes from widespread malpractice by site owners and making it easier to buy or sell a mobile home.
A report commissioned by the Government in 2012 uncovered rogue site owners putting off potential purchasers so they could buy mobile homes on their sites at knock-down prices, replacing them with new ones they could sell on for huge profits.
The new law will take away a site owner's right to approve the buyers of mobile homes, and includes tougher legislation to protect residents. Local...
We learned with deep shock and great sadness of the murder of a young member of the armed forces in Woolwich yesterday afternoon. Such acts of violence and terror have no place in our society. Our thoughts and prayers are with the victim’s family.
The attackers linked their actions with the religion of Islam. Statements from major national Muslim bodies have, in the ensuing hours, condemned the act in the strongest terms and stressed its lack of connection to – and complete contradiction of – teachings of Islam. Even so, there have been attacks on two mosques over the course of the...
A German soccer fan, perhaps poking fun at our stereotyping of his nation, recently put a beach towel on a seat at Wembley to reserve his place for the Champions League final. Not sure who he is supporting as both teams come from Germany being Bayern and Dortmund. These two teams rather spoilt things for the pundits who were expecting an “el classico” of a final from the two giants of Spanish football, Real Madrid and Barcelona, who both lost in the semi finals.
It is not just on the football field the Germans are performing well in sports, Michael Jung recently failed by a whisker...
