The countdown is well and truly underway for the long-awaited opening of the John Lewis store in Exeter.
This was the scene this afternoon as contractors pulled out the stops to get the entrance area finished on time.
The TED team will be posting live from outside the store from 7.30am, so if you can't make it yourself, you won't miss a thing.
Exeter city centre manager, John Harvey, told TED: "Clearly there have been some late challenges which have resulted from the interface between the paving work and utilities, and dealing with the significance of buried...
The TED team will be in Exeter tomorrow offering shoppers the chance to win some fantastic prizes.
Our leaflets will also explain the background to the website and offer hints and tips for getting involved.
We have received a tremedous response from both local businesses and users since we launched on Monday with a number of people taking advantage of the opportunity they have to post directly on to the site.
Look out for the team wearing TED shirts and please say hello!
This show is a new style variety show aimed at families, it features magician Michael Jordan and guests with a mix of magic, Illusion, escapology, juggling, music and laughs It is a very fast paced show designed to keep everyone's attention from 6 year olds to grandmas and granddads.
Sireli Naqelevuki says he and his Exeter Chiefs team-mates cannot wait to get stuck into the demands of European Rugby's top competition when it gets underway this weekend.
In what is a mouth-watering, first-ever Heineken Cup fixture for the ambitious Devon club - Naqelevuki and his fellow Chiefs will head across the Irish Sea to face reigning champions Leinster at the RDS on Saturday (3.40pm).
For many of the squad at Sandy Park, including Naqelevuki himself, Saturday's clash will be their first involvement in the tournament, which sees the cream of Southern Hemisphere...
The first ever elections for police and crime commissioners (PCCs), who will be accountable for how crime is tackled in local police force areas, will be held on 15 November 2012 and residents are being encouraged to ensure that they will be able to vote by being on the electoral register. Jeff Chalk, Electoral Services Manager said: “You must be on the electoral register to vote in these new elections. If you have recently moved to the area, or moved house it is important to make sure that you register at your new address otherwise you won’t be able to vote. “It only takes a few minutes...
One of the country’s most distinguished living novelists, University of Exeter honorary graduate Hilary Mantel, will read from her latest novel Bring Up the Bodies, sequel to her Man Booker prizewinning Wolf Hall , at a special event hosted by the University of Exeter tonight (October 11).
The event takes place in the Alumni Auditorium, part of the new Forum at the Streatham Campus.
Wolf Hall is a study of Thomas Cromwell, the man who engineered the dissolution of the monasteries to the execution of Anne Boleyn.
It won not only the Man Booker 2010 but also the...
Business leaders have hailed the new £8.5 million Exeter College Technology Centre as yet another example of how the city is moving forwards.
Derek Phillips, vice-chairman of the Exeter Chamber of Commerce and Industry, said: “This college facility is a great asset for the city and should make science and engineering more popular with students, which is great. It’s what we need for the future and it’s a very good development.
“The striking design will appeal to many new students and it’s great news for Exeter.”
He was speaking as more than 100 members of the Chamber...
New junction arrangements on the A30 near M5 Junction 29 have come into operation as Devon County Council’s improvement scheme nears completion.
The new traffic-signal junction, which is just to the east of the M5 overbridge, connects the new link road from the C832 (old A30) at Blackhorse to the A30. It provides motorists with direct access to the M5 southbound for the first time.
Traffic will now also be able to travel in both directions on the connecting link road, and the Blackhorse on-slip to the A30 westbound will be permanently closed.
Harlequins and England captain Chris Robshaw yesterday launched the public ticket sale for the Aviva Premiership Rugby Final 2013 saying: "It doesn't matter which team you support you shouldn't miss English club rugby's big day out".
Robshaw, who lifted the Aviva Premiership Rugby trophy last May at Twickenham when his team beat Leicester 30-23, urged fans of every club in England to snap up one of the prized tickets - which are now on sale.
"The Aviva Premiership Rugby Final has sold out for the last five years and the same thing is likely to happen again this season,"...
