After months of dedication, work on the new Heathcoat Cricket Club Pavilion is on the verge of completion at the National Trust estate, Knightshayes, near Tiverton.
All the volunteers who helped with the project are now eagerly awaiting the arrival of former England cricket captain, Mike Gatting, who will be adding final touches to the ground on Saturday 6 April.
Established in the 1920s by John Heathcoat Amory for his Tiverton factory workers, the Heathcoat Cricket Club has always had a strong association with Knightshayes and the local community.
Local healthcare and protection insurer Exeter Family Friendly went to work in style on Thursday 28 March to raise money for Brain Tumour Research.
Staff members got into the spirit of ‘Wear a hat day’ by donning hats of all shapes and sizes, raising an impressive £250 in the process.
This comes just two weeks after they raised over £350 for Comic Relief; through a range of activities including quizzes, games and 80s style fancy dress.
Chief Executive of Exeter Family, Andy Chapman, said:
“The effort our employees put into fundraising events is fantastic....
The Civil Engineering Contractors Association ( CECA ) has called on government to elevate the status of key infrastructure projects in the South West to boost economic development.
Alan Taylor, Executive Director of CECA for the south west, says that while the £3bn extra capital investment announced in the Budget was to be welcomed, the delay until 2015 was a missed opportunity to help boost the regional economy.
“A ‘jam tomorrow’ approach does little to address the urgent need to harness the power of infrastructure investment to deliver real and sustainable economic...
Members of Djibouti's opposition coalition, Union pour le Salut National (USN), gathered on Thursday outside the courthouse in Djibouti to protest against February's parliamentary election results. The opposition claim that the election was fraudulent.
Since the parliamentary election late February, members and supporters of the opposition have been holding regular demonstration in protest of February's parliamentary election results, which saw the ruling party win a large majority.
The protesters also called for the release of prisoners arrested during previous...
If you're looking for ideas to keep the family entertained this Easter weekend, here is a selection of what's going on in and around Exeter:
THEATRE
Gabriela Munoz: Perhaps, Perhaps, Quizas... Friday & Saturday, 7.30pm, Bike Shed Theatre, Exeter If at first you don’t succeed, try again… and again… and again. A solo clown show about loneliness, waiting and hoping for the right man. Once a week Greta rehearses for the arrival of the “one”. Will she get lucky tonight? Perhaps, Perhaps… Quizás… Part of the Theatre Rush & Friends Residency. Single show £10/7, two shows...
Local charity Exeter Citizens Advice Bureau today publishes its latest advice trend statistics, which show that it helped 3,300 people directly with advice on 14,040 problems, an increase of 1.3%, so far this financial year.
This year, the charity is helping clients with a debt burden of £5.5m, up by 28.3% or £1.2m from last year.
There was a 12% increase in enquiries about welfare benefits and tax credits; such as employment and support allowance, disability living allowance and problems with housing benefit and council tax benefit. On average, each client receiving...
In the latest of a series of articles in The Telegraph newspaper looking into the Coalition Government's taxation policies affecting families, the Rt Rev Michael Langrish has said that "Mothers who choose to stay at home to care for their children are being unfairly penalised by a Government that has failed to reward their role at the heart of society."
The Bishop has also said that his views represent those of a number of bishops who are concerned by the Government’s apparent lack of support for family life.
Picking up on a speech made by the Bishop of Exeter in the House...
GP leaders today (Thursday, 28 March 2013) called for Sir David Nicholson, Chief Executive of the NHS Commissioning Board, to delay the launch of NHS 111 as the crisis affecting the system threatens to put patient safety at risk.
NHS 111, a telephone triage service designed to direct people with non-life-threatening conditions to the right part of the NHS within the appropriate timeframe, has been trialled in England ahead of a nationwide launch on Monday, 1 April. At the same time, Clinical Commissioning Groups are scheduled to assume responsibility for commissioning services in...
Chinese officials have reportedly cracked-down on foreign media in Tibet by dismantling satellite dishes at the Labrang Tashi Kyil monastery in Labrang (Gansu province), Amdho region, eastern Tibet on March 10th, the 54th anniversary of the Tibetan uprising in Lhasa.
The monastery was ordered to remove and burn their satellite dishes. Monastery officials were informed the satellites would be replaced with state sanctioned devices, capable of only receiving Chinese state controlled programmes. The move will block the Monastery from obtaining access to international media.
