After the torrential rain of the previous two days, Saturday 23 March was fortuitously dry for the Exeter Pride 2013 parade down Exeter High Street, which kicked off all manner of Pride events in celebration of the lesbian gay bisexual and transgender community.
At first gathering at the St Sidwell's Centre on Sidwell Street, an excited buzz built up from 12pm ahead of the 1pm parade down Exeter High Street. Led from the front by the ever-cheerful Chair Alan Quick, a most colourful procession made its way down the High Street brandishing a 50-metre long rainbow flag. Incorporating...
A homeless charity aiming to set up a community in Exeter has made an appeal for volunteers and support.
Emmaus is a national organisation with many high profile supporters such as Terry Waite and the Duchess of Cornwall. Trustee Louise Toomer was speaking at a ‘High Tea and Talk’ event organised by Exeter Community Initiatives (ECI), a charity that runs community projects to support people facing poverty and homelessness, held at St Sidwell’s Community Centre last week.
Emmaus has a series of communities across the UK that offer people who have been homeless a supportive...
Several thousand passengers are expected to fly from or into Exeter Airport over the Easter period, with outbound travellers on Thursday’s Thomson flight likely to be enjoying the warmer weather in Sharm el Sheikh with temperatures over 30 degrees.
Many of the outbound passengers over the Easter week will also be seeking the sun in the Canaries or mainland Spain, and the first of Exeter’s new Barcelona flights will be departing on Sunday.
Matt Roach, Exeter Airport’s managing director said: “We are very pleased with the bookings for our busiest period of the year so far,...
With the upcoming Lions Tour set for June 2013, we are lucky enough to bring you some of Rugby’s biggest legends who will tell tales of their past, their predictions for the tour and their own take on this year’s top flight.
It will be a completely unique rugby night out based on an Old Style International Rugby Court Session - and also raise funds for the Exeter Foundation.
The guests of honour will be the judge and jury of the court in the good ol’ fashion tradition of our very own rugby supporter’s court session.
Join former Lion Jason Leonard and friends for an...
Bruce Kent's Scrap Trident tour comes to Exeter on Wednesday 3 April, determined to highlight the waste and immorality of Britain's Trident Nuclear Missile programme, which the Government is pursuing recklessly although it no longer has majority public support.
Bruce, Vice-President of CND and a long-term humanitarian campaigner, will speak at a public meeting organised by Exeter CND. It will be chaired by the Deputy Lord Mayor of Exeter, Councillor Percy Prowse.
The three main local political parties, who officially support Trident renewal, have been invited to...
More than 100 women have already signed up to take part in this year’s Starlight Walk for Hospiscare, which has a new 12k route along Exmouth’s seafront and beautiful countryside.
The walk is back for one night only taking place on Saturday May 11. The Hospiscare ladies walk usually takes place on two nights with one walk in Tiverton and one in Exmouth.
But Hospiscare has combined the walks to one venue for 2013 to maximise the amount of money raised.
Hospiscare fundraising volunteer Cynthia Broomfield, who has taken part and helped at the walks since they began,...
Bruce Kent's Scrap Trident Tour reaches Exeter on Wednesday 3 April. He will speak at a public meeting, chaired by the Deputy Lord Mayor of Exeter, Councillor Percy Prowse, at Exeter Community Centre, St Davids Hill at 7.15pm.
A majority of the British public is opposed to replacement of the Trident nuclear missile system. Yet the leaders of the 3 main political parties continue to support the programme. So it falls to CND and other disarmament groups to articulate majority opinion and keep reminding the powerful of their minority status. Bruce Kent's tour aims to point...
Sir Max Hastings was one of the first national figures to express support for the Black Day for the Countryside mass march, held at Feniton on Saturday (23 March). In an e-mail to the organisers, he said, "I wish you the very very best of luck in a fight which is the fight of everybody who cares both about the English countryside and the democratic rights of local communities". Best wishes, Max Hastings.
Ben Bradshaw, MP, though unable to attend, sent a message saying, "I would have loved to come on the march" and "Congratulations on all your recent campaigning".
This winter, like the economic depression, seems to be going on and on.
The coldest March for decades was an appropriate backdrop to George Osborne's latest gloom-laden budget. True, there was some minor relief for hard-pressed motorists and beer drinkers (though not if your tipple is Devon cider or Plymouth Gin) but the rest of it was a miserable affair as the Chancellor was forced to cut his growth and raise his borrowing forecasts yet again.
The economy has now grown just 0.7% since 2010 compared with the 5.3% forecast at the time. Only two other G20 countries have grown...
