A car dealer in Exeter is big on being green, so sponsoring a local bowls tournament has proved the perfect match.
JFE Nissan Exeter, on the Marsh Barton Trading Estate, has celebrated 10 years of supporting the annual ISCA Bowling Competition, providing cash prizes for the winners.
At this year’s event players from across the region came to compete on the bowling greens, with a team from Exmouth eventually scooping the title.
Matthew Holcombe, Dealer Principal at JFE Nissan Exeter, which sells the 100% electric Nissan LEAF, said the decade-long partnership had been...
Martin Bingham, 44, from Exeter is celebrating with the woman he is wooing, June Vowsy, this week thanks to a declaration of love that he posted in the window of Card Market at 247 High Street.
Martin, who has been smitten with June the past four months, wrote the perfect sonnet to his woman and entered it into Card Market’s Valentines window hoping his well-chosen words would win him and June a romantic dinner for two.
Martin’s love note, captured the hearts and minds of Card Market staff and customers alike, it reads: “To my darling June, Roses are red, Violets are blue,...
Exeter Junior School's public speaking team of three, Year 6 pupils Minnie Conibear, Isobel Rutter and Millie Lofthouse, has won the District Final of the Rotary Club 'Youth Speaks Competition' held last Saturday.
This is as far as junior participants can go so it is a huge achievement.
In addition to winning the overall trophy, Isobel was singled out for the specific prize of 'Best Speaker'.
It was a great day for the girls, Form Tutor Mr Ashman, English Coordinator Mrs Pettet and Exeter Junior School.
The individual feedback from the judges included these...
Students from the University of Exeter have stormed to victory in an international competition, with their innovative app that allows users to lock and unlock doors with their mobile phone.
The team of Computer Science undergraduates secured victory in the Project Arduino competition, organised by leading engineering and technology company Thales, following a worldwide public vote.
The winning entry, called ‘LockDuino’, allows doors to be locked and unlocked remotely via a mobile phone app, which connects to a small Arduino microprocessor that runs the locking system. The...
Exeter-based Liz Joslin is the winner of local agency Nomadic Travel’s annual Travel Photo Competition with this wonderful close-up picture of a gelada monkey.
Liz took this photograph whilst travelling with her husband Lee in the Simien Mountains of Ethiopia.
Gelada monkeys are the world's most terrestrial primates, excepting humans.
Their closely-knit social groups offer a fascinating study in primate behaviour and Liz’s image captures superbly a feeling of a deeply thoughtful mammalian brain.
The team at Nomadic Travel unanimously voted for it as their...
The heat will be turned up on curry chefs in Exeter, East Devon and Teignbridge on Tuesday (17 February) in an attempt to find out who can rustle up the best balti.
Fourteen of Exeter, East Devon and Teignbridge's finest curry chefs will be putting their best dishes to the test at @34 Restaurant, Exeter College from 10am on Tuesday. At stake will be the prestigious title of Exeter East Devon & Teignbridge Curry Chef of the Year 2015.
This year, Exeter City Council and Teignbridge District Council are joining forces with East Devon District Council for an even bigger and...
Westpoint Exeter’s celebrations for their silver anniversary year culminated with the 25 Days of Christmas Competition offering their social media followers festive giveaways in the run-up to Christmas.
Just last week they announced the winner of their top prize, a breathtaking balloon flight for two, Jenn Whitehorn from Newton Abbot.
Kindly donated by Aerosaurus Balloons, the top prize offers the chance to see the rolling hills and dramatic cliffs of Devon from the skies in a once in a lifetime flight. Westpoint Exeter's Event Manager, Sarah Toms and Business Manger, Emily...
With Valentine’s Day just around the corner, Card Market, the greetings card store, wants to hear from Exeter’s most ardent wordsmiths.
Shoppers can post their declarations of love in the windows of the Exeter store with the most creative Casanova winning a romantic dinner for two. Look out for the huge Valentine’s heart in the window of the Exeter store ready for those perfectly penned words of love. It may be poetry or a paragraph, something personal or words that you want to tell the world, Card Market will be looking for the most creative and evocative words of love to fill...
Residents and road users are being asked for their ideas to name the South Devon Link Road.
Devon County Council and Torbay Council, along with Galliford Try - the contractors responsible for constructing the road – have launched the competition which is asking for suggestions for the official name of the new road.
The completed road will be a 5.5km dual carriageway from Newton Abbot to Torquay and is due to be completed in December 2015.
Mayor of Torbay, Gordon Oliver said: "We are looking for names that are simple and imaginative. The name will be used on...
The Mecca bingo club on North Street is hosting live auditions and recording sessions to launch Star Search, a brand new national talent competition being run by Mecca across the UK.
The best singers at the Exeter event stand a chance of joining other local and regional heat winners at a star-studded national final, which is being held as part of a Star Search celebration weekend at Mecca Blackpool in June.
And the overall Star Search winner will receive the ultimate star treatment as their prize, jetting off to Los Angeles on a once-in-a-lifetime trip for two to Hollywood...
