Exeter’s Terrace restaurant and rooftop bar is now open, inviting people to enjoy stunning city and Cathedral views while sipping cocktails and dining on the very best in local produce.
Independently owned restaurant and bar The Terrace is the sixth restaurant to launch in the city’s new £12m dining destination, Queen St. Dining. It joins Turtle Bay, Gourmet Burger Kitchen, Absurd Bird, The Stable and Comptoir Libanais, which are already open.
The stylish Terrace, spread over two floors of Queen St’s landmark glass building, is inspired by the most stylish venues from...
National Adoption Week 2016 kicks off on Monday 17 October with this year’s South West campaign focusing on the needs of individual children currently waiting to be adopted. Adopt South West is highlighting the fact that there are children waiting to be adopted in Devon and Somerset, and all partner agencies are looking to assess potential adopters now.
Due to changes in court practices at the start of 2016 we saw a national decline in the number of children in care who had adoption as their plan.
The effects of this have been felt nationally and both local authorities and...
Exeter College has won the prestigious City & Guilds ‘UK Centre of the Year’ award – celebrating the outstanding opportunities delivered by the college to technical and vocational learners.
The City & Guild’s Lion Awards are one of most prestigious in the skills education calendar and is a culmination of the Medals for Excellence awards programme, which dates back more than 100 years.
Judges of the awards - known as the ‘Oscars of skills education’ awards - praised the College for ‘ensuring excellent care, guidance and support for their learners’.
High levels of investment and the impact of a hot summer combined with changes to consumer spending in the wake of Brexit have led to members of the Devon Hotels and Restaurants Association reporting an almost unprecedented demand for new staff.
Hotel and restaurant managers are attempting to recruit for a variety of openings with roles for front of house, reception, housekeeping and chefs available.
Craig Findleton, Chair of the Association said: “Members of the Association have been investing heavily in their hotels and restaurants over the past two years resulting in...
Tomorrow (Tuesday 11 October) is World Obesity Day, and today the British Dietetic Association pushes for junk free checkouts as new figures from the World Obesity Federation indicate that 3.28 million school aged children in the UK will be overweight or obese by 2025. On current trends, obesity-related diseases will increasingly affect school-children, including 43,000 with type 2 Diabetes and 296,000 with hypertension by 2025.
The British Dietetic Association (BDA), founded in 1936, is the professional association and trade union for dietitians (the only legally regulated...
Damian Welch’s last-gasp try snatched a dramatic draw for Exeter Chiefs in an enthralling derby with Gloucester at Sandy Park.
With less than a minute remaining, Gloucester’s hopes of a second Aviva Premiership victory of the season were dashed when the Chiefs mauled their way over in the left-hand corner to tie the scores at 27-27.
Even then Rob Baxter’s side could have won it at the death, but the normally deadly Gareth Steenson was unable to land the tricky conversion from wide on the touchline.
Following a disappointing 15-6 defeat at the hands of Bath Rugby...
Health chiefs from around the South West will gather together to hear results of a ground-breaking pilot to tackle hepatitis C in the South West. Learning from this work will be used to help inform the delivery of hepatitis C services nationally.
The Tackling Hepatitis C in the South West Summit will take place on October 14 at 2pm in the Kennford and Exminster Room at the Exeter Court Hotel, Kennford, Exeter. In 2014, national charity Addaction, The Hepatitis C Trust and pharmaceutical company AbbVie formed a partnership to pilot an ambitious project to improve access to hepatitis...
A local charity is playing a key part in an initiative which is protecting the nation’s ‘tree heritage’.
Throughout October Devon Wildlife Trust is collecting seed from a series of well-known local wild tree and shrub species including rowan, crab apple, raspberry, silver birch, honey suckle and elder. The collections are an important part of a national project to protect the UK’s trees.
The charity is undertaking the work as a partner in the UK National Tree Seed Project, which has been set up by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew’s Millennium Seed Bank, with funding from...
This October visitors to Powderham Castle will have the chance to get a glimpse of one of Devon’s most spectacular natural phenomona, the rut of Powderham’s ancient fallow deer herd.
Many will remember how the stunning deer park and its ancient trees played host this summer to 50,000 revelers at the Radio 1 Big Weekend. But outside of concerts and events, the deer park is home to a majestic herd of 600 fallow deer who roam the 200-acre deer park, which has been maintained for centuries. Indeed Coldplay’s Chris Martin famously reminded the Big Weekend crowd that it is the deer that...
